Queensland Health is investigating two cases of locally acquired malaria as the state's total number of infections this year rises to 71. In its latest notifiable conditions report, Queensland Health ...

Over thirty years of healthcare in the Torres Strait will be examined for the class action, with lawyers already having heard ...

But there’s a region that few Aussies have ever set foot on, let alone curious Brits from the other side of the planet: the Torres Strait Islands. The tropical islands have welcomed only a ...

The newly named Horn Island aircraft flew to its spiritual home in the Torres Strait on Wednesday for ... like buses” for the people of the 274 islands. “We catch them like people catch ...

A class action has been launched against Queensland Health by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders over claims of racial discrimination stretching back to 1996. The class action alleges First ...

“Previously, there were five cases of locally acquired malaria in the Torres Strait in 2023 – on Saibai and Boigu islands – but prior to that, no cases since 2013.” Malaria is a mosquito ...

Australia’s northernmost waters will be safer with the recently formed Marine Rescue Queensland formally establishing four new Volunteer Marine Rescue units in the Torres Strait this week.

It pointed out that across the Taiwan Strait, the Kinmen and Matsu islands lie more than 160 km from Taiwan's main island but sit just off the coast of China. The Washington-based think tank Institute ...