A person from any of the Torres Strait Islands between northern Australia and New Guinea.
the rights of Torres Strait Islanders became a union issue
Example sentencesExamples
- Talking of high risk, in Australia no group of people are at more risk of everything than Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders.
- Torres Strait Islanders have artistic traditions that are more like those of New Guinea than Australia.
- By 1996, over 5000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations had been incorporated under the Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act 1976.
- The theatre is looking for dancers, male and female of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent.
- Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders make up 2.4 per cent of the population and 21 per cent of all prisoners.
- Their concern is the health and welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
- Only the Torres Strait Islanders had long term experience of local government councils.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders comprise the least healthy identifiable subpopulation in Australia.
- A representative of the Torres Strait Islanders also read protest poems to the conference.
- The collection comes dangerously close to representing Torres Strait Islanders as outside their interests.