Lobster export is the only viable industry available to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the Torres Strait

By Jim O’Toole

Torres Strait island councils and a mainland council are holding a meeting in Cairns Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss the formation of regional autonomy.

To reach this outcome a sovereign state or Torres Strait island nation would have to be created which could allow Torres Strait Islanders effectively to secede from Australia.

A bigger hurdle for government in consideration of this unlikely proposal is the inclusion of the Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council which administers five Aboriginal and Islander communities on the mainland Tip of Cape York.

Aboriginal sovereign nations groups meet in Cairns in September. The Yidindji Government said 13 Indigenous nations from across the continent attended the
event to talk about sovereignty, statehood and self-determination into the future. It seems there were more white people in attendance than black.

Excising the Torres Strait is one thing but the mainland is an improbable other.

A multitude of issues for both mainland Australia and a new, autonomous state would follow which include national security, how to achieve financial independence from Australia and  how to feed a new nation which has no farm land.

Presently the Islanders mainly rely on sea food for protein intake. Targeted species include turtle, dugong, lobster and fish which are available only when local weather conditions permit.

Consumables arrive by barge from Cairns at an exorbitant cost which has been averaging $600 per pallet of groceries. Cold and frozen goods have a much higher charge.

Beef, lamb or pork prices are prohibitive for islanders who are regularly charged $20-25 for a slice of steak, not necessarily rump.

A tropical rock lobster export industry operates throughout the islands which now has 66.2 per cent local ownership held by the Torres Strait Regional Authority.

The Torres Strait is populated with Islanders but just who are these people? From where did they come?

Generally Torres Strait islanders descend from the Pacific Islands but much of the population have close links to Papua New Guinea. Modern Aborigines are a separate race of people who descended from pre-Dravidian Indians crossing the Sahul land bridge approximately 18,000 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahul_Shelf

Australian Aborigines own the largest island in the Torres Strait, which is the 20,000 hectare Prince of Wales Island and Horn Island which is home to Australia’s northernmost international airport.  The remainder of islands are owned by islander communities.

Only 17 of the total 270 islands are inhabited

A scattering of smaller islands such as Thursday Island is the business hub of the Strait housing several hundred state and federal public servants, a state government-run hospital and allied health services.   

By leaving Australian governmental administration what could the new state of Torres Strait offer to its 4514 inhabitants (2016 Census) with a median household income of $929 which comprises Centrelink payments on which 90 per cent of the population relies?

Thursday Island’s multitude of government agencies provide employment for only a small proportion of its inhabitants.

The Australian Government spent $20m on health services for the Torres Strait in 2019-20  according to available ABS statistics.

In the 2016 Census, Torres Strait islands had a population of 4,514 people, with 91.8% identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. About half of the population were male, and the median age was 24 years. A significant portion of the population was under 15 years old, with 34.6% being children. 

In 2019–20, expenditure on primary health care services for Indigenous Australians was $3,887 per person, compared with $2,055 per person for non-Indigenous Australians (ratio 1.9).

Expenditure for secondary/tertiary health care services was $5,347 per person for Indigenous Australians, compared with $3,951 for non-Indigenous Australians (ratio 1.4).

These expenditure, proportionately would extend to the Torres Strait which is serviced by the Royal Flying Doctor Service based in Cairns and Queensland Health air services.

Total, overall expenditure to keep the Torres Strait functioning is not readily available.

Nor is the cost of regional security maintained by Australian Government agency Borderforce or the Australian Navy.

Funding avenues for an autonomous state would be impossible to attain for Queensland’s extensive, northern sea lanes and islands which in effect resembles a third-world enclave with its major infrastructure being housing, diesel-generated power and no substantial sea port.

China enters the equation

Funding of an autonomous Torres Strait presents a major hurdle for Islanders who since federation have been dependent upon Australian Government largesse.

https://cairnsnews.org/2024/10/05/lnp-labor-uni-party-will-be-forced-to-accept-a-new-sovereign-country-of-torres-strait-backed-by-china/

As it stands today there is no mechanism available to the Torres Strait for generating income to enable self-sufficiency.

A small breakaway group of rogue Islanders claiming to represent Gudang and Kaurareg communities have brought China to the Torres Strait offering its Consul Dr Ruan Zongze island land to establish large-scale infrastructure such as a fuel depot and even acquiring the Horn Island International Airport, presumably as a leasing arrangement.

Chairman of Kaurareg Native Title Aboriginal Corporation, based on Horn Island, Mr Eliza Wasaga said the rogue community members did not represent anyone in Kaurareg and were “running off on their own.”

He said the Kaurareg people, the largest land and sea traditional owners in Torres Strait, did not support China obtaining land.

This is an extract from an article published by Cairns News October 5, 2024:

Moves are underway for Torres Strait communities to join the Yidinji sovereign nation, established in Cairns nearly a decade ago, to break away from Australian government rule.

The Chinese government has been asked to bankroll the proposed Torres Strait nation which has already elected its political representatives in anticipation.

Gudang and Kaurareg elders at a Cairns meeting in September said they wanted to break free from reliance on the Australian government and take charge of their own affairs.

This could be a noble sentiment to give Islanders a warm and fuzzy feeling about managing their destiny, but if China pays the bills what does the Communist government of Bejiing want in return?

Front row: James Ji, Lin (Larry) Wang, China Consul Dr Ruan Zongze, Patricia Wall (nee Wymarra), Domanic Celestino, Sika Manu (also known as Milton Savage), Luisa O’Connor & Brendon Wymarra. Back row: Munggudah (also known as Thomas Savage), Koey Kula (also known as Seriat Young), Charles Mene & Iwallee (also known as Michael Solomon) taken at Thursday Island.Pic: Torres News

In September the Chinese Consul visited the Torres Strait ostensibly to pave the way for massive Chinese investment in a new sea port on Hammond Island among other projects.

Consul Dr Ruan Zonzge’s visit was for “courtesy meetings with local authorities and communities but not for the specific projects as listed in your letter,” the Consulate claimed after Cairns News send a list of questions to the Consul.

Torres Strait elder Seriat Young told Torres News he wanted to see positive change in his communities for his children’s sake.

He said that was why they had appointed Ministerial roles and begun the process of establishing a sovereign government structure.

“We are going to do it all by ourselves, we will do this thing for our glory,” he said.

“We want the [Australian government] to look at us and see how [they] have oppressed us for a very long time in [our] own country.

Mr Young made no mention of the annual $40 billion Australian Government budget allocation for the national Aboriginal industry or the $2m recently handed out by government to the owners of Pajinka land at the Tip.

Cairns meeting

Torres Strait Island Regional Council Mayor Phillemon Mosby sent this invitation to attend the Cairns meeting;

On Tuesday 13th & Wednesday 14th May 2025 regional leadership cohorts consisting of Mayors, Councillors, CEO and Chairs of Torres Strait Island Regional Council, Torres Shire Council, Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council, Torres Strait Regional Authority including Gur Berdaraw Kod (GBK) will meet in Cairns to discuss regional issues and strategies on how we can better work in partnership to address them collaboratively.   

The key topics that will be discussed are;

– Torres Strait & Northern Peninsula Area Regional ROC
– Regional Autonomy | Regional Assembly
– Safe, Accessible & Affordable Transportation
– Blue Security & Safe Region
– Land Tenure (DOGIT) & Native Title
– Regional Health Reform
– Regional Economic Growth & Independence 

Key regional stakeholders, partners and government departments including ministers have also been invited to attend. 

Our Council together with our regional leadership is committed to improving the liveability of our regions and pursing our long-term aspiration for self-determination and regional autonomy. 

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  1. Caltrop said – “… Chinese Weapons Shocking Debut in Battle Stuns the West. Pakistan J10c vs India’s French Rafale…”

    And take note, folks, the Chinese J10 is now effectively obsolete in China’s military, it’s old tech and being retired as much newer generations of weaponry rapidly and continually come on line.

    Yet the J10 was sufficient to effectively kick the very best European fighter jets’ arse, beyond visual range no less.

    Not particularly relevent to a 4th World collapsing starving Globalist backwater like Australia, because we’re just a cheap foreign-owned quarry that can’t make anything and we got nothin anyway, but rather a concern for anyone planning to deploy air assets to pick a fight with China.

  2. China Used Pak To Test Its Weapons | What It Means For Taiwan After Rafale Clash | Statecraft Ep 119

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  3. Chinese Weapons Shocking Debut in Battle Stuns the West. Pakistan J10c vs India’s French Rafale – YouTube

    h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR1_bW0782M

  4. An opening shot in the great Australian breakdown and breakup. Louder than the Voice! Much, much louder.

  5. Commenter kev
    What makes you think China and US are not two wings of the same bird. You are an ALP voter by now probably kicking back on the age pension hoping for a raise, no need to formally vote when you know the winner already. The non-votes go to ALP not Bosi. The govt passes the bill and gets the funding, from taxpayer and borrowings. Someone maybe in these comments or another one nearby, reminded people the BIS has infiltrated nearly every country on the planet, probably have a North Korean delegate in the CCP. NK Won has been fixed against Yuan for the best part of 10 years.
    Remember 3 or 4 African leaders were demised for speaking out during the scamdemic. Remember Fauci paid Wuhan. Notice how “our leaders” are organised, even choreographed, not least Chinese. The public was informed about Globalism, in the 80’s or 90’s, I can’t remember exactly when. Countries and flags is just bullshit like football, it is just elites+minions vs everyone else. From the bot: “panem et circenses,” was popularized by the Roman poet Juvenal around 100 A.D. All we can hope for is some influence like with Matt Canavan kicking the fake news Global Warming out into the open. Now even Karl on TV is game to talk about chemtrails. So long as we are all dollar dependent we are like junkies all hooked on the same stuff.

  6. Caltrop,

    Yes you are correct the Chinese moved into Africa a long time ago. And the Chinese have gobbled up all the minerals quickly in areas. I know Russia has somehow taken massive lots of ground but not mining yet. (X white family farmland) the heads of government are just the same here in Australia, all corrupt at our expense.

  7. @Jase

    The Africans are kicking the French and American colonists out and inviting the Russians and Chinese in to provide security for the African leaders. Normally the French in particular would have any African leader rising up against the French practice of ripping off African resources murdered.

  8. Caltrop,

    Watched the you tube video you posted.

    My opinion is that the African people are poor because the government is corrupt.

    Like the Aboriginal people in Australia…

    China wants all the gold in Africa hence why it brought up most New Zealand gold mines, now they are offering big money to get the Africans to get the white farmers off the land and all companies to leave Africa.

    Same is going on here in Australia, the government are trying to get rid of us small miners using native title and Aboriginals to move China in.

    Same as PNG, the government over there are trying to drive the miners out to let China in.

    Doesn’t mater who does the mining the people in the area if they don’t work will always be poor, governments want people to have just enough to live and keep working so we don’t have time to understand the crooks in government are sucking up all the cash one way or another.

    For instance here in Cape York we pay huge amounts for native title and Aboriginal heritage and green tape, red tape. None of that money goes to any locals, we also pay huge fire and emergency levys that you would think is for the local fire brigade, but there isn’t a local fire brigade (we, I am the local fire brigade with our private fire units and heavy machinery to cut breaks) all the levys go to government and end up in consolidated revenue…

    The 39 billion dollars of Aboriginal funding a year doesn’t make it out of the city’s, in remote communities in the Cape a loaf of bread is still 8 bucks if you can get one and most kids don’t have anything to make a sandwich or have shoes to wear….

    But the land councils in Cairns have a yard full of landcrusers with fuel cards the workers take home every night.

    It’s all corruption and gruberment ripping the less fortunate off day after day….

  9. Editor are you suggesting because the climate fiasco is bulldust Australia didn’t violate the rights of the Torres Straight population?

    If so you’d make a good politician if there is such a thing.

  10. Maybe Australia poisoned the Torres Strait Islands with the jab too and they have decided to get away from us. They can probably see what is happening here

    And just by the way a steak here costs the same as there and the farms are right here… Steak here is about $40-60 per kilo now from butchers – its outrageous.

    Good luck to them I say. Escape while you can.

    Pat from Vic…”Sounds a lot like the Torres Strait Islanders can see the writing on the wall, they’re just angling to back the winning horse.

  11. Jase said – “… If so can someone tell me what book to buy so I can learn the up and comming lingo…”

    I’d suggest any of the many works of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson as a good starting point. If you have trouble finding those, maybe search for Lewis Carroll.

    And cairnsnews said – “… There is no climate crisis in the Torres Strait…”

    And what’s more, their chickens are safe despite all the salties.

    Whereas chooks are in grave peril and going extinct all across Australia, with nary a saltwater crocodile in sight. Right alongside the bees, and who ever heard of a saltie hunting bees FFS?

    Maybe creepie Bill could genetically modify some salties to save us from the next “deadly pandemic”, if mosquitos can do it then a 6 metre saltie surely could.

  12. There is no climate crisis in the Torres Strait or anywhere else for that matter. Editor

  13. Foreign owned miners in Australia pay no tax – they are parasites.

    $160 Million Fined! Mali Arrests Australian Mining Giant CEO For Exploitation!

  14. Australians should come to the realisation that they are living in a colony just as Africans are –

    It’s Finally Over: We Won’t Power Your Colonial Cities Anymore #TheAfricaNewsChannel – YouTube

    h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mlomarRrcA

  15. The Question I think is important…. Is the US underground military bace packing up in Cape York ?

    If so can someone tell me what book to buy so I can learn the up and comming lingo.

    I can assure you our piss weak police and military will lay on the ground begging.

  16. Brit compares life in China vs. the UK; You’d be shocked by his answers!

    h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV-bq9zOSY0&t=1s

  17. re: USB…. “The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) concluded in September 2022 that Australia breached the rights of Torres Strait Islanders to enjoy their culture, and be free from arbitrary interferences with their private life, family, and home.”

    Not to mention that if they were genuine the Committee should have also included the rest of us with the Torres Straight Islanders. Particularly with respect to the UN sponsored plandemic strategies and directions issued by the UN to the Australian authorities. And not to also mention the rest of the woke garbage it threw at us with the same results.

  18. The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) concluded in September 2022 that Australia breached the rights of Torres Strait Islanders to enjoy their culture, and be free from arbitrary interferences with their private life, family, and home.

    I don’t suppose it entered anyone’s head there just might even be even slightest possibility places like the Solomon and Torres Straight are even thinking about China, if in fact they are, is because they just might be better off?

    https://www.hrlc.org.au/case-summaries/un-human-rights-committee-finds-australia-violated-torres-strait-islanders-human-rights-over-climate-inaction/

  19. re Caltrop: “Trump term COLLAPSES as EMPTY PORTS seen across AMERICA”

    He, he… I would agree but since it’s just been brought to my attention that Trump is beholden to his purportedly “Swiss” masters I am now obliged to conclude that he is a front for the “Swissies” and that he and his “Swissy” campaign funders and backers are the people that must not be blamed. 🙂

  20. Commenter Kev
    Do not gainsay Joe Bogan
    The steering wheels fall off and everything else is only designed to last until it catches on fire. Also the roads and train lines they show on videos are fake.Standards are dropping everywhere and lies are proliferating. It all originates from our Globalist masters in and around Swissyland. They are converting us into clueless lemmings who would rather watch sport than think.

  21. The end goal for Australia is its fragmentation and the easy seizure and capture of its resources and assets by the Globalist Money Merchant Cult, for 2 cents in the $.

    If you haven’t seen how it’s done in other places, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Yugoslavia, Ukraine etc, you’ve been asleep.

    The concept of 300 plus “1st Nations”, the pending Treaties with them and the burgeoning Land Title give aways should give any sleeping wombat a clue.

    The Voice was comprehensively defeated but wait for the workaround, possums!

    You’ll love your 15 min cities because as soon as you set foot outside them you’ll be on someone else’s territory.

    And you might note that the Globalist Money Merchant Cult which luvs us all won’t much care how much Aussie and/or foreign blood is spilled in the process.

    It will fit in perfectly well with Deagel’s population reduction forecasts for the Western, developed world.

  22. Commenter Bogan says –

    “The Globalists hold China in reserve, low tech and expendable. We are sold junk cars for the same price as real cars making us think our money might still be worth the same, but it has lost 1/3 of buying power since before the Covid program.”

    I don’t know how many years ago Bogan is talking about but the Chinese cars that I have been in in recent times have been very impressive.

    Australia is fortunate that though our governments are lacking nous they are nowhere near as stupid as US’s dictator Donald Trump.

    Trump term COLLAPSES as EMPTY PORTS seen across AMERICA

    h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lSPaQaCLEc

  23. The CCP could flood Australia any time it wants but we are America’s baby if you go by Trump’s treatment of us during the tarriffs war we went straight on the minimum rate leaving Elbow nothing to protest about. Effectively Trump put a GST on imports. Canada should be his best friend but they are getting much rougher treatment. We are a military asset as well as a resources producer competing with 3rd world places. Hopefully Trump’s SoS Marco Rubio is paying attention with the Torres Strait since Obama dropped the ball on Port of Darwin. We will be told what to do and we like it that way. The developing bigger picture is a 3-party treaty between freemason Trump, WEF protege Putin and Greater Zion. This combination will be militarily unbeatable. All of it can be run by a small clique of infiltrators. The rest of the world is being told “no more wars” and having their guns removed. The technologists are also being removed to idiotic projects like carbon capture. The federal budget is being wasted on every type of nonsense. The resources in Australia are given away for free as the citizens are eased down towards 3rd world levels of pay. The Globalists hold China in reserve, low tech and expendable. We are sold junk cars for the same price as real cars making us think our money might still be worth the same, but it has lost 1/3 of buying power since before the Covid program. The end game is not some sort of war between Australia and China, it’s total control of disempowered citizens.

  24. “Trump holds chair for his Occult Master”

    Hmmm, all Trump need to do is denounce God and the “chair” is his ..

  25. @Caltrop. This is very ominous. Israel is an ally of the US in the region and should be nothing more. But we all know that Israel is the controlling interest in US foreign policy. So now DJT has negotiated a truce with the Houthis and left Israel out of it – which is entirely acceptable (BUT – a set up should be suspected because the interests of Israel will be affected). And Hesgeth has cancelled his trip to Israel as Netanyahu vows “Israel will go it alone”. All of this is supposedly in the interests of the DJT Gulf trip.

    Above all there is this shift in DJT messaging on the subject of the genocide Israel is conducting in Gaza. [A minor consideration in the Trump presidency thus far]. Support for this has never sat well with the non-Zionist MAGA base.

    So Bread and political circuses for the MAGA base. The real deal with Israel will always be the one that won’t appear in any treaty or whatever. The real deal with Israel will always be: Moshiach Now! and Greater Israel.

    If Catherine Austin Fitts is giving interviews on the subject, the Big Players are working on a big one like 9-11 (mazel tov) which the US , Russia and Israel used to kick the tires and light the fires for the SIG wars – otherwise known as the regime change takedowns of 7 nations in 5 years.

    ht tps://ww w.you tube.com/watch?v=Az mi3UAj 7Lw
    Trump’s Shocking Turn Again Against Netanyahu. Is it real / w Catherine Austin Fitts
    The Jimmy Dore Show. May 11 2025

  26. One 1st nation down, only 300 or so 1st nations to go. We’ll of course need “treaties” with all of them, right? Assuming foreign interests allow it.

    Ouch! Anyone know where we can get bulk Astroglide on the cheap? I wouldn’t wanna be caught without.

  27. May 11 – Trump-Satanyahu Rift is Not Real

    Trump holds chair for his Occult Master
    Video

    The MAGA media is floating the notion that Trump is withdrawing support from Israel.
    Americans are growing restive with being Israel’s bum boy. So MAGA has to create the illusion of US independence so that when a false flag is blamed on Iran, MAGA yokels can lay down their lives believing it is for their own country.

    Trump and Netanyahu have a profound lifelong commitment to Chabad a Jewish supremacist cult that is orchestrating another Masonic Jewish world war in order to kill non-Satanists, including assimilated Jews. This apocalyptic End Times event will herald the Antichrist who will rule the world on their behalf.

    Read on –

    http://www.henrymakow.com/2025/05/may-11—trump-satanyahu-rift-.html

  28. People protest loudly about the potential of China to do harm in this or that area of the world but say nothing when the U.S. and Israel have no empathy for the Palestinians they are starving to death as well as their everyday bombing and murdering of innocent people as if they were animals.

    “Exterminating Gaza was always Israel’s plan, but now it’s official” – War on Gaza Day 581

    …………..US to use Gaza aid plan as ‘bait to force displacement’: UNICEF

    The US is planning to establish a new non-governmental foundation to distribute aid in the Gaza Strip without the Israeli military’s involvement, US officials announced on 9 May, without giving additional details.

    US State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said an announcement from the foundation would be made “shortly.”

    Israel will not be part of distributing aid in Gaza, US Ambassador Mike Huckabee said on Friday morning.

    “A 14-page document from the newly registered Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) envisions four distribution centers in Gaza providing up to 1.2 million Palestinians with food, water, and hygiene kits,” Haaretz reported.

    The foundation will establish additional distribution centers over time, and promises a “vital lifeline through an independent, rigorously audited model that gets assistance directly – and only – to those in need.”

    However, a UN agency active in Gaza has criticized the plan, which will force Palestinians into small enclaves within Gaza under tight surveillance, surrounded by armed private contractors.

    “It appears the design of a plan presented by Israel to the humanitarian community will increase ongoing suffering of children and families in the Gaza Strip,” said UNICEF spokesperson James Elder.

    “The use of humanitarian aid as a bait to force displacement, especially from the north to the south will create this impossible choice: a choice between displacement and death,” Elder added.

    https://israelpalestinenews.org/exterminating-gaza-was-always-israels-plan-but-now-its-official-war-on-gaza-day-581/

  29. Don’t you find it odd saying something remotely detrimental about Asians, Muslims Jews, gays, politicians, women, its, etc etc etc can land you in jail, even in jest yet you can say whatever you like about a nation the US wants to bomb back the stone age.

    It would appear even racism is selective, especially in countries with US military bases.

    … and the sheep go baaahhhh.

  30. Buying off a few people in the Torres Straits and elsewhere is the usual style of the CCP. This places the entuire coutry at risk, as well as those on the take. Classic Style of the CCP, and no good outcomes for anyone involved.

  31. The Torres Strait Islands are Australian Territory.

    They are inseparable from the rest of the country.

    Any dealings with a foreign nation, with respect to any potential political interference, real or implied, should be considered treasonous, and dealt with as such.

    Much like Victoria and Dan Andrews, for example.

  32. China sourced 30% of its lumber from PNG. Unlicensed logging and forest destruction is rife. No surprise there.
    CCP business model: make loans to the country you want to bankrupt.
    https://support4partnership.org/en/news/30-countries-that-owe-billions-to-china-in-2024
    I doubt if the Aus gov cares much for the people of PNG. This is from DFAT: “Accelerated Immunisation and Health Systems Strengthening Program . . is a partnership between the Governments of PNG, Australia and New Zealand and Gavi [Gates funded], the Vaccine Alliance.”

  33. Didn’t Cynthia Lui have something to do with Horn Island which has a gold mine?

  34. Fed up, what do you call a hundred politicians at the bottom of the harbor?

    A bloody good start.

  35. “The New Kingdom is coming and will care for them
    GESARA is here now and will be announced in days to months.”🤣

    Ah yes, the old NESARA/GESARA scam. Seems to have been resurrected and getting a lot of attention lately.
    But anyway, let me guess… that would have to be Donald Trump the genocidal, mass murdering jabfather’s ‘New Kingdom’ eh Dennis?
    Or, is it some other wild fantasy that many similarly gullible thus hoodwinked Trump worshipping types have invested their hopes in, because they’re too weak and/or lazy to do anything for themselves; so would rather wait for some nonexistent hero (who has totally conned them with his incessant BS) and his invisible army to come and save them?

  36. “Torres Strait Island Regional Council mayor Phillemon Mosby explained the Masig statement is designed to act in a similar manner to the Uluru Statement from the Heart (a UN land grab) and is not calling for the region to entirely break away from Australia, it’s proposing a greater degree of autonomy for the people of the strait and the Northern Peninsula Area of mainland Australia by 2037.
    https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/torres-strait-masig-statement-calls-for-regional-autonomy-by-2037/

    “A United Nations committee on Friday found Australia’s former Coalition government violated the human rights of Torres Strait Islanders by failing to adequately respond to the climate crisis.”
    https://theconversation.com/australia-violated-the-rights-of-torres-strait-islanders-by-failing-to-act-on-climate-change-the-un-says-heres-what-that-means-191329

    “Chairman of Kaurareg Native Title Aboriginal Corporation, based on Horn Island, Mr Eliza Wasaga said said the Kaurareg people, the largest land and sea traditional owners in Torres Strait, did not support China obtaining land.

    In September the Chinese Consul visited the Torres Strait for “courtesy meetings with local authorities and communities, not to pave the way for massive Chinese investment in a new sea port on Hammond Island among other projects Cairns News speculated in a letter they sent to the boogyman.”
    https://cairnsnews.org/2025/05/11/torres-strait-seeks-to-break-away-from-australian-rule-opening-the-door-to-china/

  37. “… Modern Aborigines are a separate race of people who descended from pre-Dravidian Indians crossing the Sahul land bridge approximately 18,000 years ago…”
    You’re right about the lower caste black Indians being pushed out. Now let me see, a slow rate of population growth doubles every 100 years. Lets say it doubles every 200 years, that’s 90 doubles. A man and a woman 18,000 years ago would give a population of 2 to the power of 90. Wow. Now 2 to the power of 32 gives us something over 8 billion. hmm, something wrong there James old boy. Since the abo population in 1788 is estimated to have been about half a million, Maybe about 2,000 years ago is more like it.
    As for China: don’t they already rule Canberra?
    Anyway, what do we expect for a country that has cast Jesus Christ aside for the god of evolution. Don’t expect ant mercy.

  38. In the mean time, really great men and women are saving children from the most horrific crimes worldwide
    God bless our Military, Police and Civilians that don’t get any accolades on our MSM for the outstanding jobs you are doing under the radar
    May God bless each and every one of you 🙏 ❤️❤️❤️

  39. If they need help, they should ask for it.
    Going it alone will only bring poverty and devastation of being used.
    They are safer as part of Australia.
    The New Kingdom is coming and will care for them
    GESARA is here now and will be announced in days to months.

  40. China Will strip their resources and Steal their land. After that they will be Eliminated and their land will be Chinese owned and occupied.

  41. For years some of the Cray fishers have been putting the bigger cray in ice on an aircraft directed straight to china while we have been served up the cubs.
    At the end of the day, these shell creatures suck up the scum off our oceans floors!
    Sounds a bit like our politicians!

  42. They probably lost faith after being coerced into the mRNA injections.
    What an utterly stupid project our parasites in Canberra foisted on us all.
    So expensive, so useless, so deceitful, so nasty, so totally unwanted.
    Those ALP and Greens and other Nutworks who voted against Babet’s inquiry bill should be court-martialled and the whole lot shot at dawn. If anyone in the army is interested in winning my favour that’s what it would take. Of course the army is not adequate for defence of this continent so this would be a useful project for them. Otherwise, the swindles continue.

  43. The author said – “… A significant portion of the population was under 15 years old, with 34.6% being children…”

    … because what else are ya gonna do living on Australian “government” handouts with no job on a tropical island paradise?

    And the author said – “… Modern Aborigines are a separate race of people who descended from pre-Dravidian Indians crossing the Sahul land bridge approximately 18,000 years ago…”

    Heresy! Sacrilege! Blasphemy!

    But maybe those Torres Strait Islanders should be thankful their respective ancestors didn’t get hunted down and eaten. Seems there are benefits to living out of sight on a tropical island paradise after all.

    And the author also said – “… Beef, lamb or pork prices are prohibitive for islanders who are regularly charged $20-25 for a slice of steak, not necessarily rump…”

    Won’t even be an issue once all the beef and lamb and porkers are all dead and buried in Australia, you know, to “save” us all from the “deadly bird flu”. Along with all the bees and chickens. I bet the chickens are WAY safer on Torres Strait islands than they are anywhere else in Australia.

    And stone the crows if the author didn’t say – “… if China pays the bills what does the Communist government of Bejiing want in return?”

    … because China has flying cars and actually builds shitloads of stuff, while Australia doesn’t even have any power stations FFS. What does the Communist government of Australia want?

    And besides, Australia is importing over 2 MILLION Third World immigrants per year, why should the Torres Strait people have to be dragged down the sewer along with the rest of us?

    Sounds a lot like the Torres Strait Islanders can see the writing on the wall, they’re just angling to back the winning horse.

  44. Basically they want a new Sugar Daddy. They won’t have to be self-sufficient (for anything).

    All they really have to have for a Power with ambitions to dominate the Pacific is location, location, location and they have that.

    I am sure Sugar Daddy Xi can think of many ways the Torres Strait politicos and the Corporate Aboriginals of the Yidindji nation can prove useful to Belt and Road and Great China.

    Have a look at Zimbabwe , another excellent example of a newly minted socialist republic that could not build any industry or run the industries and infrastructure it seized from the former gov’t. It sold itelf – state, population, land and resources to the CCP and People’s Republic of China to be a colony (I mean special economic zone). They now have children working in the mines for the rare earth minerals required by Green Tech industry and the NET ZERO UN policies concocted for the destruction of Western nations. It is definitely all hands on deck over there. No more of this Tribal Trust Land business guarranteed to the lands of tribal populations and the investment of a first world economy to the self-rule of those lands for social progress and development under their Chiefs.

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