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	Torres Strait Islands
		Islanders were not allowed to live on Thursday Island until after the war.
		The Strait was a vital gateway to the Pacific, Torres and members of the Spanish court regarded the discovery of such importance that the matter was kept secret for more then a century.
		Possession Island, lushly vegetated and historically important, faces Endeavour Strait and was discovered and named by Captain James Cook in 1870.
	www.hav.nl /zoek/torres.html (412 words)

	Australia Post Stamps -- Torres Strait Islands Art PPEs
		The art selected for the new range of definitive pre-paid envelopes is representative of art practise on different islands of the Torres Strait, including Erub, Badu, Saibai and Mer.
		Next to the stamp area is a repeated motif derived from the Torres Strait Islands flag, representing a stylised version of the dancer’s headdress, the dari.
		The envelope design is by Lynette Traynor of the Australia Post Design Studio and each features an example of Torres Strait Islander art in the stamp area.
	www.auspost.com.au /philatelic/stamps/index.asp?link_id=2.679 (361 words)

	Aborigines, Torres Strait Islanders, Indigenous and Aboriginal peoples, The First Australians
		Torres Strait Islanders use the name of their island community to describe themselves, for example, Badu, Murray, Yam, Boigu.
		The Torres Strait Islands lie in the Torres Strait which is the stretch of water that separates Cape York Peninsula in north Queensland from Papua New Guinea.
		Prior to 1788, Aborigines occupied all of mainland Australia and most of the inhabitable islands near the coast, including Tasmania.
	www.bigvolcano.com.au /human/origsetl.htm (453 words)

	MJA: Map of Torres Strait Islands
		The islands of the Torres Strait extend from the tip of Cape York Peninsula to within 5 km of the Papua New Guinea (PNG) coastline.
		A treaty between Australia and PNG allows Papuans to freely visit the Torres Strait islands (and vice versa) for "traditional" purposes (e.g., to trade and to attend ceremonies).
		The outer islands are north of the arbitrary dotted line, and consist of the western islands (Badu, Moa, Mabuiag), the northwestern islands (Boigu, Dauan, Saibai), the eastern islands (Ugar, Erub, Mer) and the ceîtral islands (Masig, Poruma, Warraber, Iama).
	www.mja.com.au /public/issues/sep2/hanna/hanbox1.html (157 words)

	Aborigines, Torres Strait Islanders, Indigenous and Aboriginal peoples, The First Australians
		Torres Strait Islanders use the name of their island community to describe themselves, for example, Badu, Murray, Yam, Boigu.
		The Torres Strait Islands lie in the Torres Strait which is the stretch of water that separates Cape York Peninsula in north Queensland from Papua New Guinea.
		Throughout the 50,000 years or more that Aboriginal people have been on the continent, they have had to adapt to dramatic changes in their environment caused by variations in climate and movement of landmasses.
	www.bigvolcano.com.au /human/origsetl.htm (157 words)

	Walkabout - Thursday Island
		Today the island is the administrative centre for the Torres Strait Islands and has a significant population of Torres Strait Islanders.
		Upon disembarking at Badu Island, you are taken back in time to real Island life, and although Badu island has the second largest population (after T.I.), the local people still retain their cultural heritage, and are extremely proud to show their place to anyone who takes the time to visit.
		This year is the first time Badu Island will be showing visitors around their Island.
	www.walkabout.com.au /locations/QLDThursdayIsland.shtml (828 words)

	Torres Strait Islands
		The Strait was a vital gateway to the Pacific, Torres and members of the Spanish court regarded the discovery of such importance that the matter was kept secret for more then a century.
		The first to discover the Strait was an enterprising Spaniard, Luis Vaez de Torres in 1601.
		Friday Island was named by Captain Parker-King in 1848, for 20 years it was a leper colony, but later Norman Hocking he made it into a beautiful island with imported deer and in 1925 the island was proclaimed a flora and fauna sanctuary.
	www.hav.nl /zoek/torres.html (412 words)

	Good news about your health
		Both Boigu and Badu Islands have new primary health care centres and staff accommodation to serve the Torres Strait region.
		As part of your network of care, the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area Health Service District has two hospitals at Bamaga and Thursday Island, a primary health care centre at Thursday Island, dental services at Bamaga and Thursday Island, and a mobile van.
		Health centres are located at Badu Island, Boigu Island, Coconut Island, Darnley Island, Dauan Island, Horn Island, Injinoo, Kubin, Mabuiag Island, Murray Island, New Mapoon, Saibai Island, Seisia, St Paul's, Stephen Island, Thursday Island, Umagico, Warraber Island, Yam Island and Yorke Island.
	pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/36831/20030804/www.health.qld.gov.au/masters/good_news/Districts/Torres_strait.htm (333 words)

	The Australian: Native title win for islanders (archived)
		TORRES Strait islanders had been given meaning to their lives as the last of the region's islands were being granted native title status, an island spokesman said today.
		The Federal Court is this week holding special hearings on seven Torres Strait island communities to finalise native title consent determinations between traditional owners and the state of Queensland.
		Five other islands, Ugar (Stephen Island), Boigu (Talbot Island), Iama (Yam Island), Gebar (Two Brothers Island) and Badu (Mulgrave Island), will finalise their claims over the next week.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5744,11631422^1702,00.html (352 words)

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		The seven Torres Strait islands subject to consent hearings by the Federal Court are: Yaywad (Aureed Island); Erub (Darnley Island); Ugar (Stephen Island); Boigu (Talbot Island); Iama (Yam Island); Gebar (Two Brothers Island) and Badu (Mulgrave Island).
		BADU - Mulgrave Island is approximately 53km north of Thursday Island and the total determination area is 10,394 hectares in area.
		BOIGU - Boigu (Talbot) Island is approximately 146km north of Thursday Island and 5km south of Papua New Guinea.
	www.minebox.com /story.asp?articleId=5171 (566 words)

	Australia Post Stamps -- Torres Strait Islands Art PPEs
		The art selected for the new range of definitive pre-paid envelopes is representative of art practise on different islands of the Torres Strait, including Erub, Badu, Saibai and Mer.
		Next to the stamp area is a repeated motif derived from the Torres Strait Islands flag, representing a stylised version of the dancer’s headdress, the dari.
		The envelope design is by Lynette Traynor of the Australia Post Design Studio and each features an example of Torres Strait Islander art in the stamp area.
	www.auspost.com.au /philatelic/stamps/index.asp?link_id=2.679 (361 words)

	National Native Title Tribunal: Media Centre: Torres Strait determinations — background information 8 December 2004
		These are the last of the Torres Strait island communities to have their native title rights recognised.
		The Badu Islanders' claim is the largest, covering 104 square km, including Badu Island and surrounding islands.
		The people of Boigu Island lodged their claim over part of Boigu Island, and also Aubisi Island and Moimi Island which amounts to 74 square kilometres.
	www.nntt.gov.au /cgi-bin/print_version/print_version.pl?conf=conf.xml&file=/media/Torres_Strait.html (861 words)

	Magabala Books: Authors Q to Z
		I then went for holidays with my family to Badu Island in the Torres Strait.
		One of her short stories won the NT Literary Award for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Writers in 1994 and another story was highly commended in 1996.
		, Delphine Sarago-Kendrick, Selena Faith Solomon, Alf Taylor, Robyn Templeton Alick Tipoti, Pat Torres, Joe Tramacchi, Daisy Utemorrah, Glenyse Ward, Romaine Weare, Magdalene Williams, John Wilson, Banjo Woorunmurra, Alexis Wright
	www.magabala.com /authors/authqtoz2.htm (3220 words)

	Torres Strait Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moa (Banks Island) is the second-largest in the Torres Strait, and Badu (Mulgrave Island) is slightly smaller and fringed with extensive mangrove swamps.
		The islands in this cluster lie south of the Strait's mid-way point, and are also largely high granite hills with mounds of basaltic outcrops, formed from old peaks of the now-submerged land bridge.
		The distance across the Strait from Cape York to New Guinea is approximately 150 km at the narrowest point; the islands lie scattered in-between this range, extending some 200-300 km from furthest east to furthest west.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Torres_Strait_Islands (1194 words)

	MJA: Map of Torres Strait Islands
		The islands of the Torres Strait extend from the tip of Cape York Peninsula to within 5 km of the Papua New Guinea (PNG) coastline.
		A treaty between Australia and PNG allows Papuans to freely visit the Torres Strait islands (and vice versa) for "traditional" purposes (e.g., to trade and to attend ceremonies).
		The outer islands are north of the arbitrary dotted line, and consist of the western islands (Badu, Moa, Mabuiag), the northwestern islands (Boigu, Dauan, Saibai), the eastern islands (Ugar, Erub, Mer) and the ceîtral islands (Masig, Poruma, Warraber, Iama).
	www.mja.com.au /public/issues/sep2/hanna/hanbox1.html (157 words)

	Sydney Morning Herald - Daily News - Disease-carrying tropical mosquitoes heading for NSW
		The first Australian cases of Japanese encephalitis were in 1995, when two people died of the disease on Badu Island, in the Torres Strait.
		Despite a vaccination program undertaken at the time, a 12-year-old boy from the island was hospitalised in March.
		Last December, six people died of Japanese encephalitis on Normanby Island, off the south-east coast of PNG.
	www.gaiaguys.net /13.5smhmozzies.html (157 words)

	"One ilan man": the Torres Strait Light Infantry [Wartime: Official Magazine of the Australian War Memorial]
		Today many of the white soldiers return to visit the islands where they served in their youth, to smell the frangipani, hear the song "Old TI", sung in island harmony, and most importantly to be reunited with the Torres Strait Island veterans they have not seen for half a century.
		Vanessa Seekee is curator of the Torres Strait Heritage Museum on Horn Island, Queensland.
		B Coy - Badu, Moa and Mabuiag Islands
	www.awm.gov.au /wartime/12/article.asp (157 words)

	The West-Central Torres Strait Islands
		After the forced repatriation of Pacific Islander labourers, following the federal government's introduction of a restrictive immigration policy in 1904, the Queensland government set aside a reserve on Moa's eastern shore for those who managed to remain in Queensland, many of whom had married Torres Strait Islanders and Aboriginal people.
		At the peak of the shell industry in the late 1950s, the Badu fleet of 13 boats employed a workforce of 200 providing work for many men, even from other islands as well.
		Pearlers established bases on the island during the 1870s and by the early 1880s the islanders were becoming dependent on wages earned as lugger crew.
	ozoutback.com.au /postcards/postcards_forms/tsi_moa_mabuiag_badu (157 words)

	PRS/2 Manual Part C Supplementary Code Lists
		1103 Queensland, Badu Island, Boigu Island, Darnley Islands, Friday Island, Gold Coast, Goode Island, Hammond Island, Mabuiag Island, Moa Island, Murray Island, Palm Island, Prince of Wales Island, Rennell Island, Saibai Island, Stradbroke Island, Thursday Island, Torres Strait Islands, Tuesday Island, Wednesday Island, Yam Island, Yorke Island
		2102 Scotland, Burra Isles, Bute, Hebrides, Lewis Island, Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands, Skye, Zetland Islands
		2211 Spain, Balearic Islands, Basque, Canary Islands, Majorca, Reus
	www.health.vic.gov.au /hdss/vaed/1999-00/manual/partc/c27.htm (1013 words)

	dxld5104.txt
		The transmitter is on an uninhabited island, to the north of Badu Island, in the middle of Torres Strait.
		Taldom transmitter is a large broadcasting facility for shortwave and longwave near Taldom, Russia.
		In the meantime, it is reported that members of the Experimental Group are melting solder, tuning transmitters, stringing feedlines, and polishing their keys in eager anticipation of the issuance of the license itself, which will allow then to commence operations on 600 Meters.
	www.worldofradio.com /dxld5104.txt (12417 words)

	dxld5104.txt
		The transmitter is on an uninhabited island, to the north of Badu Island, in the middle of Torres Strait.
		Taldom transmitter is a large broadcasting facility for shortwave and longwave near Taldom, Russia.
		In the meantime, it is reported that members of the Experimental Group are melting solder, tuning transmitters, stringing feedlines, and polishing their keys in eager anticipation of the issuance of the license itself, which will allow then to commence operations on 600 Meters.
	www.worldofradio.com /dxld5104.txt (12417 words)

	Glenn Hauser's Shortwave/DX Report
		The transmitter is on an uninhabited island, to the north of Badu Island, in the middle of Torres Strait.
		Taldom transmitter is a large broadcasting facility for shortwave and longwave near Taldom, Russia.
		In the meantime, it is reported that members of the Experimental Group are melting solder, tuning transmitters, stringing feedlines, and polishing their keys in eager anticipation of the issuance of the license itself, which will allow then to commence operations on 600 Meters.
	www.dxing.com /dxr/dxld5104.htm (12417 words)

	Dennis Nona in the 4th International Angel Orensanz Installation Art Award 2003
		Cairns State High School Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Award.
		Badu Island State Primary School Sportst-shirt Logo Design, Q.L.D, Australia
		He holds an Associate Diploma of Art from Cairns Tafe and a Diploma of Visual Arts in Printmaking from the Institute of Arts, Australian National University, Canberra.
	orensanzaward.com /bio_nona.html (852 words)

	Reconciliation-Your Stories - Education Queensland
		The drive to improve literacy outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander school students was the focus of a special Reconciliation Week breakfast held in Brisbane on 27 May 2004.
		Ms Bligh said three schools - Cherbourg State School, Badu Island State School and Cunnamulla State School - were last year named Centres of Excellence in Indigenous Education in recognition of their innovative approaches to teaching and learning.
		Minister for Education Anna Bligh said closing the gap between Indigenous student achievement and the achievement of all state school students was an essential part of the reconciliation process and a priority for Government.
	www.reconciliation.qld.gov.au /education.html (852 words)

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