Many others were sent north to a new settlement, known as New Mapoon. Today there are more than 260 people living in the community, with 90 per cent of the population of Aboriginal or Torres ...

Today, a great wrong will be set right with the announcement by the Queensland government that it will fund the construction of new homes in Mapoon, replacing some of those that were set ablaze ...

Former New Mapoon mayor Colin Robert Bond, 46, was sentenced in Cairns District Court to six months jail, wholly suspended, after pleading guilty to the November 27 assault on the woman.

Eventually the Queensland Department of Native Affairs chose a site on the tip of Cape York at the Bamaga reserve and called it “New Mapoon”. On November 8, 1963, the government’s supply ...

Housing Minister Tim Mander will fly to Mapoon today to announce $2 million ... Strait Islander Affairs Minister Glen Elmes said the new dwellings were a step towards righting a historic wrong.