Too Close to Ignore: Australia's Borderland with PNG and Indonesia

by Mark Moran and Jodie Curth-Bibb

Less than five kilometres from Australia's most northern islands in the Torres Strait lies the southern coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The people living on the PNG side of the border along the South Fly coast live in abject poverty, with a near total absence of services and infrastructure. The disparity in income, housing and health outcomes when compared with their nearby neighbours and relatives in the Torres Strait Islands, is extreme. The border...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522875475
• ISBN13: 9780522875478
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Melbourne University