Workbook
For Torres Strait Islander Families
Sea, Land, Identity — the Culture Between Australia and Papua New Guinea
Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal identities are related but not the same.
For the Torres Strait Islander family member naming an identity that is specific, complete, and distinct.
The Name It First Experience
The Torres Strait Islands sit between Australia and Papua New Guinea. The culture is sea-based, island-specific, and distinct. Australia has consistently grouped Torres Strait Islander identity with Aboriginal Australian identity in ways that obscure both. This workbook gives Torres Strait Islander families a structured space to name the sea culture, the island heritage, and the languages that belong specifically to them. The output is not a First Nations umbrella document. It is your signed Torres Strait Islander Manifesto.
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Sample questions
- What does Torres Strait Islander identity mean in your household — which island, which language, which community structures?
- What does the sea culture of the Torres Strait mean for your family's identity — and how do you hold it from the mainland or abroad?
- What do you want the next generation to understand about Torres Strait Islander identity — distinct from Aboriginal Australian identity — and what is at risk?
Research basis
Grounded in tribal sovereignty frameworks applied to Torres Strait self-determination, McCarty and Hinton language reclamation for Meriam Mir and Kala Lagaw Ya, Sharp (1993) scholarship on Torres Strait Islander identity and land rights, and Mabo v Queensland (1992) as a landmark of Torres Strait Islander identity recognition.
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