Mark Roy Archive

“Always listen to your Mum” was the take home message when larger-than-life Jesse Williams arrived home from the US last month. Arriving back in Australia from his latest tour of duty on the US grid-iron circuit, the 22-year-old was spotted sporting a …

Medical experts are warning the Australian mainland is at risk of being invaded by a deadly strain of tuberculosis (TB) from Papua New Guinea (PNG), report Matt Garrick and Mark Roy in the Torres Strait. An outbreak in PNG’s Western Province of an …

Today, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month 2012, we pay tribute to ANZACs who died or suffered to serve our nation in wars, conflicts and peace keeping operations around the world.  ANZAC veteran William “Bully Hayes” Saylor, 82, served in …

It is the stuff of legend. In the red dust and heat of Western Australia’s Pilbara region, on the other side of the continent to their homelands and seas, a gang of Torres Strait Islanders didn’t just break the record time for …

The local Islander name for a small bird seen as a symbol of impending good weather has been chosen as the name of the first vessel in a planned fleet of seven ranger boats to be deployed across the Torres Strait. The …

A couple of yachties anchored in Escape River, near the tip of Cape York in far north Queensland, had a close encounter of the crocodile kind when they were woken by a large crashing sound in the middle of the night. Canadians Marian and David Paul woke …

THERE was a feeling of change in the air at the Mabo Day celebrations on Thursday Island,writes Mark Roy. While the Federal Government is talking about changes to the Native Title Act, 20 years after the historic High Court decision on land …