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Premier Anna Bligh has unveiled official welcoming signs on Horn (Ngurupai) Island that publically recognise the Traditional Kaurareg Owners.
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Improvements to the Horn Island Airport, thereby allowing the re-introduction of heavier aircraft particularly the QantasLink Q400s, is expected to be completed by September.
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By HEINZ ROSS
The Injinoo dancers, selected to perform the opening ceremony of this year’s Australasian World Music Expo in Melbourne, captivated the crowd of invited guests.
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By VELMA GARA
Roy Graham, the Principal of Kaziw Meta for many years, has left Thursday Island and moved to Cairns to spend more time with his wife, Elizabeth, and family.
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The historic first community-Government Forum on Warraber Island in Torres Strait during December has been described as an overwhelming success.
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By MARK BOUSEN
Families and legal sources have welcomed the decision of the Australian federal safety regulator, Comcare, to prosecute the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) and the boat manufacturer over the deaths of five people on-board...
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Hockey sticks painted with various Torres Strait totems by art students from Tagai TAFE were presented to the world’s six top nations, including Australia, competing in the recent Champions Trophy in Melbourne.
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Gab Titui Cultural Centre’s Ephraim Bani Gallery has taken out the award at Gala function hosted by the Queensland Museum, South Bank.
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High temperatures and heavy rainfall have heralded the arrival of the wet season.
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The winner of the national 2009 Yvonne Cohen Award for Creative Indigenous Australians will use part of the $5000 prize money to make her first trip to her home land of Erub.
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Premier Anna Bligh has announced an additional $2.8 million. in joint Federal and State funding, for the Horn Island Airport which allow larger aircraft, such as the QantasLink Q400s, to use the airport.
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TSRA Chairman Toshie Kris says Queensland Premier Anna Bligh needs to seriously address the issue of Community Development Employment Projects program (CDEP) workers performing Queensland Government jobs in the Torres Strait during her visit to the Torres...
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Didymus Blanket, a student at Badu Island Campus of Tagai College, is soon to be on his way to Melbourne to complete his schooling.
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The Tagai College Primary School swimming carnival was interrupted and delayed following a minor chemical leak at the Thursday Island sports complex last Wednesday, November 25.
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Queensland Health mosquito control staff have conducted house-to-house inspections in response to the detection of the Asian Tiger Mosquito (Aedes albopictus) in New Mapoon.
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TAFE Certificate 3 Aged Care Graduation ceremony was held at the Star of the Sea Home for the Aged on Friday, December 4.
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TSRA Chairman Toshie Kris says the Australian Government should fund climate change victims in Australia, especially the Torres Strait, before offering aid overseas.
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By ALF WILSON
Torres Cape will play a Foley Shield game at Cooktown against Cairns on April 24 next year as part of a revamped format for the competition announced at a QRL Northern Division conference held in Townsville from November 20-22.
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Iama’s Walter Mackie has told Federal Inquiry into Climate Change and Environmental Impacts on Coast Communities that it never crosses "our mind to relocate".
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Santa Claus made a grand entrance, to the sound of a police siren, at the Port Kennedy Association’s Carols by Candlelight and it was a great way to end a very entertaining evening on Friday. November 20.
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