Sentence examples for Torres Strait Islanders from inspiring English sources

Wilson said governments were not innovative or adventurous enough to address the problem, despite the devastating effect of drugs and alcohol on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

By the most conservative estimates some 20,000 Australian Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders, and at least 2,000 settlers, died in fighting across the Australian frontier from 1788 until the last established massacre of Indigenous Australians at Coniston, Northern Territory, in 1928.

War closed both this causeway road, from Jaffna to Pungudutivu island, and the passenger ferry we take to Delft (an island colonised by Portuguese but renamed by Dutch settlers), so these islanders were particularly isolated.

The way it was handled hurt too – Liverpool were in "chaos", Torres said, and he was right.

Views like these get airtime at the expense of dissenting positions from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and everyone else as well.

For how can we even think of recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Australian constitution when we cannot even recognise their diverse views?

Atlético started without a striker and improved when Fernando Torres, who was their best player, came on just before the hour.

1/1-13 University Ave, Canberra 11am: Sculpture at the National Gallery of Australia By all means, take a quick tour of the gallery itself (the works by Pollock, Bacon and Hockney are stellar, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art collection is, understandably, the best in the world), but save some time for the secluded sculpture garden, which most visitors skip over.

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Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the constitution is currently being framed as a white versus black issue, where black people wish to be recognised and white people need convincing.

We have to hope so | Kirstie Parker Of course everyone has the right to have a view on the constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.