How resilient is the Torres Strait Treaty (Australia and Papua New Guinea) to global change? A fisheries governance perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 17-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R.A. Butler ◽  
Sara Busilacchi ◽  
Tim Skewes
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Fisheries Governance ◽  
Torres Strait

Revision of the genus Mitelloides Evans, with two new species from northern Australia (Homoptera: Cicadellidae)

1990 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-288
Author(s):  
M.M. Stevens
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
North East ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Torres Strait

AbstractThe genus Mitelloides Evans is revised. Three species are recognised and described; M. moaensis Evans (the type species) and two new species, M. thorntonensís and M. mouldsi. A key to the males of the genus is provided, and the known distributions of all species are mapped. The genus is known only from north-east Queensland, the Torres Strait Islands, and Papua New Guinea.

Conceptions of Health and Illness Held by Australian Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and Papua New Guinea Health Science Students

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Boulton-Lewis ◽  
Hitendra Pillay ◽  
Lynn Wilss ◽  
David Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Educational Status ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Science Courses ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Torres Strait

Health is considered to be a fundamental human right and developing a better understanding of health is assumed to be a global social goal (Bloom, 1987). Yet many third-world countries and some sub-populations within developed countries do not enjoy a healthy existence. The research reported in this paper examined the conceptions of health and conceptions of illness for a group of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and Papua New Guinea university students studying health science courses. Results found three conceptions of health and three conceptions of illness that indicated these students held a mix of traditional/cultural and Western beliefs. These findings may contribute to overcoming the dissonance between traditional and Western beliefs about health and the development of health care courses that are more specific to how these students understand health. This may also serve to improve the educational status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and potentially improve the health status within these communities.

The Sustainability of the Indigenous Dugong Fishery in Torres Strait, Australia / Papua New Guinea

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1375-1386 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Marsh ◽  
A. N. M. Harris ◽  
I. R. Lawler
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Torres Strait

scholarly journals Asymmetrical Development across Transboundary Regions: The Case of the Torres Strait Treaty Region (Australia and Papua New Guinea)

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 4200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Busilacchi ◽  
James Butler ◽  
Ingrid Van Putten ◽  
Yiheyis Maru ◽  
Joseph Posu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Census Data ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
Development Initiatives

While there is much theoretical study of the evolution of border disparities, there is little empirical analysis of development asymmetries across border regions, and their causes or solutions. Often disparities among countries hinder the ability of transboundary agreements and other development initiatives to generate sustainable development. This study quantifies development progress amongst communities in Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) covered by the Torres Strait Treaty, 26 years after its inception. Using regional census data from 2011 we found contrasting patterns of human development, with markedly poorer education levels in PNG. This asymmetry was confirmed by a Human Development Index of 0.735 for the Torres Strait and 0.270 for the neighbouring province in PNG. From a survey of 1089 PNG households in 2012–2013 we calculated that 63% of people in the villages were multidimensional poor, and 28% were ‘vulnerable to poverty’. Poverty was positively correlated with poor health, which has implications for the control of tuberculosis in the region. While Treaty provisions may have reduced poverty amongst some PNG villages closest to Australian communities, development initiatives by Ok Tedi mine in compensation for its environmental impacts have not. Our study highlights the causes of the sustainable development gap between PNG and Australian communities, and the necessity for transboundary agreements and institutions to have the capacity to adapt to their unintended consequences and rapid global change.

Early agriculture in New Guinea and the Torres Strait divide

Antiquity ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 69 (265) ◽  
pp. 848-854 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Harris
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Early Agriculture ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Majority World ◽  
Torres Strait

The high and low islands of Torres Strait, scattered between the tip of Queensland and the coast of Papua New Guinea, make a unique frontier in later world prehistory: between a continent of hunter-gatherers and the majority world of cultivators. Consideration of just what archaeology there is in the Torres Strait Islands, and of its date, improve on the conventional question: was the Strait a bridge or a barrier?

Systematic analysis of the fauna of Papua New Guinea and associated biogeographical territories.

2022 ◽  
pp. 13-16
Author(s):  
Richard A. I. Drew ◽  
Meredith C. Romig
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Torres Strait

Abstract This chapter presents the classification of the dacine fauna of Papua New Guinea and associated biogeographical territories into two genera, Bactrocera Macquart (with 21 subgenera) and Dacus Fabricius (with three subgenera). These include the subgenus Diplodacus May, which occurs in north-eastern Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. A key to genera and subgenera recorded in the Australian-Pacific Region is provided.

The Papua New Guinea cholera outbreak: implications for PNG, Australia and the Torres Strait

2013 ◽  
Vol 199 (9) ◽  
pp. 576-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J Hall ◽  
James A Gillespie ◽  
Alexander Rosewell ◽  
Pilly Mapira
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Cholera Outbreak ◽  
Torres Strait

scholarly journals Ritual pathways and public memory: Archaeology of Waiet zogo in Eastern Torres Strait, far north Australia

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Wright ◽  
Glenn van der Kolk ◽  
Dauareb community
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Public Memory ◽  
Political Process ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Ritual Performance ◽  
Far North ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
Insight Into

The materiality of performative ritual is a growing focus for archaeologists. In Europe, collective ritual performance is expected to be highly structured with ritual often resulting in a loud archaeological signature. In Australia and Papua New Guinea, ritual (and collective ritual movement) is also highly structured; however, materiality and permanence are frequently secondary to intangible and/or impermanent considerations. In this paper, we apply the framework of public memory to places and objects associated with the Waiet cult in Eastern Torres Strait. We explore the extent to which ritual performance spanning multiple islands can survive through archaeology, as well as whether ethno-archaeology and history provide insight into the structured and highly political process by which rituals were remembered, celebrated and forgotten.

On the identity of flying-foxes, genus Pteropus (Mammalia: Chiroptera), from islands in the Torres Strait, Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 780 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
KRISTOFER M. HELGEN
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Mammal Species ◽  
Flying Foxes ◽  
Type Series ◽  
Bat Conservation ◽  
Voucher Specimens ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
Flying Fox

Five flying-fox species (Pteropus scapulatus, P. alecto, P. conspicillatus, P. macrotis, and P. banakrisi) have been reported from islands in the Torres Strait, situated between northern Australia and southern Papua New Guinea. However, vouchered specimens demonstrate that Torres Strait records of the Large-eared flying-fox (Pteropus macrotis) actually reflect misidentifications of the Little Red flying-fox (P. scapulatus), and that the type series of Pteropus banakrisi Richards & Hall, 2002 (a newly-described species supposedly endemic to Moa Island) consists only of subadult individuals of the Black flying-fox (P. alecto). Only three flying-fox species are therefore known from the strait. These re-identifications underscore the importance of voucher specimens in biological investigations and have important implications for bat conservation in Australia. Pteropus macrotis is removed from the list of mammal species known from Australia, and banakrisi is placed in the synonymy of P. alecto.

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