CATCH NORNIE BERO IN THE EARLY hours of the morning walking along Williamstown Beach, plucking samphire from rock crevices, and you will find a woman wearing a quiet, satisfied smile. Three decades ago, Nornie would have been wearing a similar painted-on grin while spearing fish for dinner off the coast of Mer in the Torres Strait, located on the northernmost tip of Queensland, where she grew up.
“Back then, foraging