Waiben, also known as Thursday Island, is awash with green ... The colours of the flag represent the Torres Strait Islander people’s connection to the land, sea and sky In 1995, the flag ...

Thursday Island’s traditional owners call the island ... putting British Royal Navy Marines in close proximity to the Kaurareg people. Five years after they arrived, there was a massacre ...

Thursday Island is a pulsing hub of public service ... Waiben's original inhabitants, the Kaurareg people, were forcibly removed to Moa Island the early 1920s, but the island remains an important ...

In the late 1880s, the shipping and pearl industries operating on Thursday Island (also called Waiben) needed staff. So throughout the next two decades, people from the Pacific Islands ...