Journal articles: 'Torres Strait Islands'

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Brady, Maggie, and Vic McGrath. "MakingTubain the Torres Strait Islands:." Journal of Pacific History 45, no. 3 (December 2010): 315–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2010.530811.

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Lansbury, Nina, Andrew M. Redmond, and Francis Nona. "Community-Led Health Initiatives for Torres Straits Island Communities in a Changing Climate: Implementing Core Values for Mitigation and Adaptation." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 24 (December 9, 2022): 16574. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416574.

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First Nations Peoples have a long history of living in Australia’s changing climate and a deep knowledge of their traditional estate (‘Country’). However, human-induced climate change raises unforeseen risks to the health of First Nations Peoples—especially in remotely located communities. This includes the Torres Strait Islands, where a local leader asked our Torres Strait Islander co-author, ’We know that you will return to your Country—unlike previous researchers. So how can you help with climate change?’ In response, this research describes four core values focused on supporting First Nations Peoples’ health and wellbeing: co-design, appropriate governance, support for self-determination, and respectfully incorporating Indigenous Knowledges into health-protective climate initiatives. Supporting the health and wellbeing of Torres Strait Islanders to continue living in the remote Torres Strait Islands in a changing climate can enable long-term care for Country, maintenance of culture, and a sense of identity for First Nations Peoples. Ensuring these core values are implemented can support the health of present and future generations and will likely be applicable to other First Nations communities.

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Ewing, Bronwyn, Thomas J. Cooper, Annette R. Baturo, Chris Matthews, and Huayu Sun. "ContextualisingtheTeachingandLearningofMeasurementwithinTorres Strait Islander Schools." Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 39, no. 1 (2010): 11–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/s1326011100000880.

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AbstractA one-year mathematics project that focused on measurement was conducted with six Torres Strait Islander schools and communities. Its key focus was to contextualise the teaching and learning of measurement within the students' culture, communities and home languages. Six teachers and two teacher aides participated in the project. This paper reports on the findings from the teachers' and teacher aides' survey questionnaire used in the first Professional Development session to identify: a) teachers' experience of teaching in the Torres Strait Islands, b) teachers' beliefs about effective ways to teach Torres Strait Islander students, and c) contexualising measurement within Torres Strait Islander culture, communities and home languages. A wide range of differing levels of knowledge and understanding about how to contextualise measurement to support student learning were identified and analysed. For example, an Indigenous teacher claimed that mathematics and the environment are relational, that is, they are not discrete and in isolation from one another, rather they interconnect with mathematical ideas emerging from the environment of the Torres Strait communities.

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Lavery, Tyrone H., Justin J. Watson, and Luke K. P. Leung. "Terrestrial vertebrate richness of the inhabited Torres Strait Islands, Australia." Australian Journal of Zoology 60, no. 3 (2012): 180. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/zo12043.

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Located between New Guinea and Australia, Torres Strait and its islands provide an opportunity to examine the results of recent isolation on the Australo-Papuan fauna. However, records of the modern diversity of terrestrial vertebrates on the islands remained scattered and poorly documented. Analyses of terrestrial vertebrate inventories and physical island variables can provide insight into pre-existing conditions of the Sahul land bridge and useful strategies for conservation efforts. We collated all available records of terrestrial vertebrates from the 17 inhabited islands and supplemented these with our own systematic surveys. We used Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient and nested analysis to determine how species richness relates to physical island variables. We also used cluster analysis to group similar islands based on their vertebrate assemblages. Vertebrate richness is not correlated with Simpson’s habitat diversity but is correlated with total number of habitat types, indicating that rare habitats may contribute disproportionately to richness. The archipelago supports a depauperate Australo-Papuan fauna and the assemblages found on smaller islands are subsets of those on larger islands. Island size is the most effective predictor of species richness, and the analysis reveals that geographically related islands support similar suites of species. The frequency with which our surveys added new records to individual island inventories highlights the need for additional sampling in the region.

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Limpus, CJ, D. Zeller, D. Kwan, and W. Macfarlane. "Sea-Turtle Rookeries in North-Western Torres Strait." Wildlife Research 16, no. 5 (1989): 517. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr9890517.

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Deliverance Island, Kerr Islet and Turu Cay in north-western Torres Strait support a major nesting population and the most northerly recorded rookery of the flatback turtle, Natator depressa. Nesting occurs there year round, with a peak in the early months of the year. The islands are insignificant nesting sites for the green turtle, Chelonia mydas, and the hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata. The N. depressa turtles that nest in western Torres Strait-north-eastern Gulf of Carpentaria are smaller and lay smaller eggs on average than the N. depressa turtles that breed in the southern Great Barrier Reef. On Deliverance Island, the inhabitants of nearby Queensland islands and Papua New Guinea coastal villages infrequently harvest N. depressa eggs as well as the green turtles that feed over the surrounding reef flats.

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Bond, M. "A Personal Philosophy Concerning Torres Strait Island Community Education." Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 14, no. 5 (November 1986): 31–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0310582200014632.

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Bamaga stands on the tip of Cape York and adjacent to a number of Torres Strait Islands. Both Bamaga and the Islands are included in the one administrative region.Parents of students on the Torres Strait Island communities are still confused as to what schools or education are providing for their children. Parents have been desperately hoping that education would improve their ways of living as they were led to believe. As it now stands, more and more parents are becoming disillusioned after receiving evidence of the inadequacy of the Western education system for their culture and beliefs.

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Staines, Zoe, and John Scott. "Crime and colonisation in Australia’s Torres Strait Islands." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 53, no. 1 (August 21, 2019): 25–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004865819869049.

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The overrepresentation of Indigenous Australians in the criminal justice system has been thoroughly documented over a number of decades. However, studies tend to adopt homogenising discourses that fail to acknowledge or deeply examine the diversity of Indigenous Australian experiences of crime, including across geographic and cultural contexts. This has prompted calls for a more thorough investigation of how experiences of crime differ across Australia’s Indigenous communities, including between remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. This paper forms part of a larger study, examining crime and justice in the Torres Strait Region, situated off the far northern tip of the State of Queensland. Here, we examine and compare reported crime trends in the Torres Straits with those in Queensland’s remote Aboriginal communities and Queensland State on the whole. We then draw upon existing anthropological, historical and other literature to explore possible explanations for differences in these crime rates. We find that crime rates are generally lower in the Torres Strait Region and that the different historical experiences of colonisation and policing may provide a partial explanation for this, particularly through the lens of social disorganisation theory.

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Lambrides, Ariana B. J., Ian J. McNiven, Samantha J. Aird, Kelsey A. Lowe, Patrick Moss, Cassandra Rowe, Clair Harris, et al. "Changing use of Lizard Island over the past 4000 years and implications for understanding Indigenous offshore island use on the Great Barrier Reef." Queensland Archaeological Research 23 (December 13, 2020): 43–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/qar.23.2020.3778.

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Archaeological records documenting the timing and use of northern Great Barrier Reef offshore islands by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples throughout the Holocene are limited when compared to the central and southern extents of the region. Excavations on Lizard Island, located 33 km from Cape Flattery on the mainland, provide high resolution evidence for periodic, yet sustained offshore island use over the past 4000 years, with focused exploitation of diverse marine resources and manufacture of quartz artefacts. An increase in island use occurs from around 2250 years ago, at a time when a hiatus or reduction in offshore island occupation has been documented for other Great Barrier Reef islands, but concurrent with demographic expansion across Torres Strait to the north. Archaeological evidence from Lizard Island provides a previously undocumented occupation pattern associated with Great Barrier Reef late Holocene island use. We suggest this trajectory of Lizard Island occupation was underwritten by its place within the Coral Sea Cultural Interaction Sphere, which may highlight its significance both locally and regionally across this vast seascape.

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Luter, Heidi M., Steve Whalan, and Nicole S. Webster. "Prevalence of tissue necrosis and brown spot lesions in a common marine sponge." Marine and Freshwater Research 61, no. 4 (2010): 484. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf09200.

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Sponges form a highly diverse and ecologically significant component of benthic communities. Despite their importance, disease dynamics in sponges remain relatively unexplored. There are reports of severe disease epidemics in sponges from the Caribbean and the Mediterranean; however, extensive sponge mortalities have not yet been reported from the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and Torres Strait, north-eastern Australia. Marine sponge surveys were conducted in the Palm Islands on the central GBR and Masig Island, Torres Strait, to determine the health of the Demosponge Ianthella basta. Using tissue necrosis and the presence of brown lesions as a proxy of health, sponges were assigned to predetermined disease categories. Sponges with lesions were present at all sites with 43 and 66% of I. basta exhibiting lesions and symptoms of necrosis in the Palm Islands and Torres Strait, respectively. Sponges from the Torres Strait also showed a greater incidence of significant and extensive necrosis in comparison to sponges from Palm Island (11.5 v. 6%). These results indicate the widespread distribution of a disease-like syndrome affecting the health of I. basta, and highlight the critical need for regular monitoring programs and future research to assess patterns in disease dynamics and ascertain the etiological agents of infection.

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Harris, David. "Early agriculture in New Guinea and the Torres Strait divide." Antiquity 69, no. 265 (1995): 848–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00082387.

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The high and low islands of Torres Strait, scattered between the tip of Queensland and the coast of Papua New Guinea, make a unique frontier in later world prehistory: between a continent of hunter-gatherers and the majority world of cultivators. Consideration of just what archaeology there is in the Torres Strait Islands, and of its date, improve on the conventional question: was the Strait a bridge or a barrier?

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Feinberg, Richard, R. E. Johannes, and J. W. MacFarlane. "Traditional Fishing in the Torres Strait Islands." Pacific Affairs 66, no. 3 (1993): 465. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2759662.

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LEE-ROSS, DARREN, and BENJAMIN MITCHELL. "DOING BUSINESS IN THE TORRES STRAITS: A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CULTURE AND THE NATURE OF INDIGENOUS ENTREPRENEURS." Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship 12, no. 02 (June 2007): 199–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1084946707000630.

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This qualitative study focuses on the relationship between culture and entrepreneurship in the Torres Strait Islands. Similar to other countries with a low per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP), aggregate evidence suggests that entrepreneurial activity is commonplace among the indigenous community. Closer investigation revealed this is particularly so for a form known as "marginal" entrepreneurship. Using Hofstede's (1994) model of cultural dimensions linked to key western entrepreneurial traits, a sample of 61 Torres Strait entrepreneurs showed sizable perceptual trait differences compared with western theory. This has implications on the received current wisdom regarding typical values and characteristics of entrepreneurs. It would appear that cultural differences exist between the entrepreneurs of the Torres Straits and others. The implications of this finding have a potentially significant impact on policy and the level and types of investment funds made available for enabling entrepreneurship in the Torres Straits.

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Fleay, Jesse John, and Barry Judd. "The Uluru statement." International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies 12, no. 1 (January 24, 2019): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcis.v12i1.532.

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From every State and Territory of Australia, including the islands of the Torres Strait over 200 delegates gathered at the 2017 First Nations National Constitutional Convention in Uluru, which has stood on Anangu Pitjantjatjara country in the Northern Territory since time immemorial, to discuss the issue of constitutional recognition. Delegates agreed that tokenistic recognition would not be enough, and that recognition bearing legal substance must stand, with the possibility to make multiple treaties between Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders and the Commonwealth Government of Australia. In this paper, we look at the roadmap beyond such a potential change. We make the case for a redistributive approach to capital, and propose key outcomes for social reconstruction, should a voice to parliament, a Makarrata[1] Commission and multiple treaties be enabled through a successful referendum. We conclude that an alteration of the Commonwealth Constitution (Cth) is the preliminary overture of a suite of changes: the constitutional change itself is not the end of the road, but simply the beginning of years of legal change, which seeks provide a socio-economic future for Australia’s First Peoples, and the oldest continuing cultures in the world. Constitutional change seeks to transform the discourse about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander relations with the Australian state from one centred on distributive justice to one that is primarily informed by retributive justice. This paper concerns the future generations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, and their right to labour in a market that honours their cultural contributions to humanity at large. [1] Yolŋu ceremony for coming together after a struggle.

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Florek, Stan. "The Torres Strait Islands collection at the Australian Museum." Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 19 (November 2, 2005): 1–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.1031-8062.19.2005.1464.

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Taylor, Sean, Robyn McDermott, Fintan Thompson, and Kim Usher. "Depression and diabetes in the remote Torres Strait Islands." Health Promotion Journal of Australia 28, no. 1 (July 20, 2016): 59–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/he15118.

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Duckworth, Alan R., and Carsten W. Wolff. "Patterns of abundance and size of Dictyoceratid sponges among neighbouring islands in central Torres Strait, Australia." Marine and Freshwater Research 58, no. 2 (2007): 204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf06104.

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Distribution and size frequency patterns of sessile organisms such as sponges may vary among and within neighbouring reefs. In the present study, we examined small-scale variation of dictyoceratid sponges (class Demospongiae), commonly found on coral reefs, by surveying six neighbouring islands in central Torres Strait. Each island had four study sites, at least 1 km apart, with each site consisting of three shallow (4 to 6 m) and three deep (10 to 15 m) 20 m2 transects. For each transect, we recorded the number of each species and measured the size of the more common dictyoceratid sponges. Seven species of dictyoceratid were recorded in central Torres Strait, with only three species, Coscinoderma sp., Dysidea herbacea and Hyrtios erecta, common to all six islands. Abundance patterns generally varied greatly among islands or sites within islands, perhaps resulting from a combination of physical, biological and stochastic factors. More dictyoceratids were found in deeper water; however, abundance across depth for some species varied among islands or sites. Size-frequency distribution patterns also varied greatly among islands and dictyoceratid species, indicating that factors that may promote growth for one species may not necessarily promote growth for a related species. This study shows that patterns of abundance and size of dictyoceratids can vary greatly over small spatial scales, and that patterns are species-specific.

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HELGEN, KRISTOFER M. "On the identity of flying-foxes, genus Pteropus (Mammalia: Chiroptera), from islands in the Torres Strait, Australia." Zootaxa 780, no. 1 (December 20, 2004): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.780.1.1.

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Five flying-fox species (Pteropus scapulatus, P. alecto, P. conspicillatus, P. macrotis, and P. banakrisi) have been reported from islands in the Torres Strait, situated between northern Australia and southern Papua New Guinea. However, vouchered specimens demonstrate that Torres Strait records of the Large-eared flying-fox (Pteropus macrotis) actually reflect misidentifications of the Little Red flying-fox (P. scapulatus), and that the type series of Pteropus banakrisi Richards & Hall, 2002 (a newly-described species supposedly endemic to Moa Island) consists only of subadult individuals of the Black flying-fox (P. alecto). Only three flying-fox species are therefore known from the strait. These re-identifications underscore the importance of voucher specimens in biological investigations and have important implications for bat conservation in Australia. Pteropus macrotis is removed from the list of mammal species known from Australia, and banakrisi is placed in the synonymy of P. alecto.

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Johnson, Dianne. "Interpretations of the Pleiades in Australian Aboriginal astronomies." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 7, S278 (January 2011): 291–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921311012725.

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AbstractAs there are so many Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait astronomies and cosmologies, commonalities are unusual. However one of the ‘things belonging to the sky’ that seems common to all groups across the continent is the open star cluster of the Pleiades. Yet interpretations of this cluster vary. So far I have tentatively identified four different cultural areas, the first being most of mainland Australia; the second being the islands south of mainland Australia known as Tasmania; the third being the cultural area of north-eastern Arnhem Land; and the fourth being the cultural area of the Torres Strait Islands. Within these areas, versions of the stories vary as contemporary circumstances change.

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Wright, Duncan, Rod Mitchell, and Bronnagh Norris. "Histories of Torres Strait Islander interaction and mythological geography." Queensland Archaeological Research 25 (June 3, 2022): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/qar.25.2022.3883.

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Archaeologists and anthropologists have long been interested in the study of past human interaction. In the Indo-Pacific, research has focused on the age and processes by which islands were settled and the role that intermediary communities played in these histories. Torres Strait, on Australia’s northern border, represents one such frontier zone. For millennia this 48,000 km2 area (containing at least 274 islands) separated predominately horticultural and pottery-using Melanesians and hunter-gatherer Australians, a contrast considered by some to be ‘starker and more perplexingly than anywhere else in the world’ (Walker 1972:405). Mirroring archaeological explanations and theoretical interests elsewhere, Coral Sea chronicles have transitioned between those prioritising large-scale migration to narratives of entanglement on the periphery of ancient globalisations. This paper develops the theme of entanglement, exploring distinctive regionally diverging histories of innovation and interaction occurring in Western, Central and Eastern Torres Strait. We suggest that traditional histories, involving the wandering trackways of Culture Heroes, provide useful insights into the deep history of human interactions, thereby helping us to understand patterns observed in the archaeological and linguistic record.

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McNamara, Karen Elizabeth, and John Patrick McNamara. "Using Participatory Action Research to Share Knowledge of the Local Environment and Climate Change: Case Study of Erub Island, Torres Strait." Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 40 (2011): 30–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/ajie.40.30.

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Reading seasons and environments has been a long-held practice for Torres Strait Islanders through their close relationships with their islands and seas. This research project worked with elders on Erub (Darnley) Island, in the eastern group of islands in the Torres Strait, to document and synthesise their knowledge of seasonal patterns and indicators, and climate change. This knowledge varied from details on the migration and nesting patterns of the main totem birds, to the movement of the Tagai star constellation, to the onset of wind patterns indicating certain planting or fishing cycles. The importance of documenting and transferring such knowledge is that it continues the task of generating interest among the younger generation to ‘read’ their landscape, which is especially pertinent given the projected impacts of climate change. The ability of islanders to identify indicators and ‘read’ their country is an important tool in monitoring and adapting to environmental change, as well as maintaining culture, livelihoods and environment. This article outlines this knowledge, and documents the process of utilising this knowledge to develop a seasonal calendar, which was also transposed into a larger mural at the local primary school. The school children were involved in assembling the mural, and its contents will now form part of the teaching curriculum. It is hoped that by documenting and sharing such knowledge, younger generations can see its value, for instance in monitoring the impacts of environmental change, and in turn it will be valued by them.

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Hall, Nina L., Samuel Barnes, Condy Canuto, Francis Nona, and Andrew M. Redmond. "Climate change and infectious diseases in Australia's Torres Strait Islands." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 45, no. 2 (February 2021): 122–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.13073.

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Rowland, M. J. "Archaeological Investigations on MOA and Naghi Islands, Western Torres Strait." Australian Archaeology 21, no. 1 (December 1, 1985): 119–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03122417.1985.12093021.

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Usher, Kim, David Lindsay, and Wendy Mackay. "An innovative nurse education program in the Torres Strait Islands." Nurse Education Today 25, no. 6 (August 2005): 437–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2005.04.003.

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Mullins, Steve. "Torres Straits pre-colonial population: the historical evidence reconsidered." Queensland Archaeological Research 9 (December 1, 1992): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/qar.9.1992.109.

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This article argues that a close and informed reading of the historical evidence indicates that David Harris's 1979 estimate of the pre-colonial population of the western islands of Torres Strait is exaggerated, and that Jeremy Beckett's original 1971 estimate is more accurate.

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Aldrich, Robert. "The Decolonisation of the Pacific Islands." Itinerario 24, no. 3-4 (November 2000): 173–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115300014558.

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At the end of the Second World War, the islands of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia were all under foreign control. The Netherlands retained West New Guinea even while control of the rest of the Dutch East Indies slipped away, while on the other side of the South Pacific, Chile held Easter Island. Pitcairn, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Fiji and the Solomon Islands comprised Britain's Oceanic empire, in addition to informal overlordship of Tonga. France claimed New Caledonia, the French Establishments in Oceania (soon renamed French Polynesia) and Wallis and Futuna. The New Hebrides remained an Anglo-French condominium; Britain, Australia and New Zealand jointly administered Nauru. The United States' territories included older possessions – the Hawaiian islands, American Samoa and Guam – and the former Japanese colonies of the Northern Marianas, Mar-shall Islands and Caroline Islands administered as a United Nations trust territory. Australia controlled Papua and New Guinea (PNG), as well as islands in the Torres Strait and Norfolk Island; New Zealand had Western Samoa, the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau. No island group in Oceania, other than New Zealand, was independent.

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Faa, Antony G., William J. H. McBride, Gaynor Garstone, Robert E. Thompson, and Peter Holt. "Scrub Typhus in the Torres Strait Islands of North Queensland, Australia." Emerging Infectious Diseases 9, no. 4 (April 2003): 480–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0904.020509.

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Wright, Duncan, Birgitta Stephenson, Paul S. C. Taçon, Robert N. Williams, Aaron Fogel, Shannon Sutton, and Sean Ulm. "Exploring Ceremony: The Archaeology of a Men's Meeting House (‘Kod’) on Mabuyag, Western Torres Strait." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 26, no. 4 (October 25, 2016): 721–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774316000445.

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The materiality of ritual performance is a growing focus for archaeologists. In Europe, collective ritual performance is expected to be highly structured and to leave behind a loud archaeological signature. In Australia and Papua New Guinea, ritual is highly structured; however, material signatures for performance are not always apparent, with ritual frequently bound up in the surrounding natural and cultural landscape. One way of assessing long-term ritual in this context is by using archaeology to historicize ethno-historical and ethnographic accounts. Examples of this in the Torres Strait region, islands between Papua New Guinea and mainland Australia, suggest that ritual activities were materially inscribed at kod sites (ceremonial men's meeting places) through distribution of clan fireplaces, mounds of stone/bone and shell. This paper examines the structure of Torres Strait ritual for a site ethnographically reputed to be the ancestral kod of the Mabuyag Islanders. Intra-site partitioning of ritual performance is interpreted using ethnography, rock art and the divergent distribution of surface and sub-surface materials (including microscopic analysis of dugong bone and lithic material) across the site. Finally, it discusses the materiality of ritual at a boundary zone between mainland Australia and Papua New Guinea and the extent to which archaeology provides evidence for Islander negotiation through ceremony of external incursions.

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Anderson, Elayne, Jeanne Ellard, and Jack Wallace. "Torres Strait Islanders‘ understandings of chronic hepatitis B and attitudes to treatment." Australian Journal of Primary Health 22, no. 4 (2016): 316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py14130.

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Indigenous Australians are disproportionally affected by hepatitis B compared with non-Indigenous Australians. The higher prevalence of hepatitis B among Indigenous Australians has been linked to an increased incidence of liver cancer in this population. There is evidence that comprehensive programs of hepatitis B virus management, which include liver cancer surveillance and appropriate antiviral therapy, offer a cost-effective approach to reduce the incidence of liver cancer in Australia. This paper reports on data from the first study investigating understandings of hepatitis B and attitudes to treatment among Torres Strait Islanders living with chronic hepatitis B. Forty-two participants completed an interview questionnaire. Participants typically had an unclear understanding of hepatitis B and reported significant gaps in monitoring and follow up. A majority of participants indicated a willingness to use treatment if required. The findings of this study suggest the need for a new service delivery model that is appropriate to remote communities such as the Torres Strait Islands, to improve hepatitis B follow up, disease monitoring and management, and where appropriate, the uptake of treatment.

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York, Frank A. "Island Song and Musical Growth: Toward Culturally Based School Music in the Torres Strait Islands." Research Studies in Music Education 4, no. 1 (June 1995): 28–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1321103x9500400105.

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Konstantinos, Anastasios, Graham Simpson, Tania C. Sorrell, and Ben J. Marais. "Doing the right thing for tuberculosis control in the Torres Strait Islands." Medical Journal of Australia 195, no. 9 (November 2011): 512. http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja11.10925.

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McNiven, Ian J. "Increase Rituals and Environmental Variability on Small Residential Islands of Torres Strait." Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 11, no. 2 (December 18, 2015): 195–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2015.1115789.

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Lumb, R. D. "The Torres Strait Islands: Some Questions Relating to Their Annexation and Status." Federal Law Review 19, no. 2 (June 1990): 154–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0067205x9001900204.

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Sands, D. P. A., and T. R. New. "Conservation status and needs of butterflies (Lepidoptera) on the Torres Strait Islands." Journal of Insect Conservation 12, no. 3-4 (March 21, 2008): 325–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10841-008-9153-6.

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Baker, A., M. Mayo, L. Owens, G. Burgess, R. Norton, W. J. H. McBride, B. J. Currie, and J. Warner. "Biogeography of Burkholderia pseudomallei in the Torres Strait Islands of Northern Australia." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 51, no. 8 (May 22, 2013): 2520–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jcm.00418-13.

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Bird, Douglas W., Jennifer L. Richardson, Peter M. Veth, and Anthony J. Barham. "Explaining Shellfish Variability in Middens on the Meriam Islands, Torres Strait, Australia." Journal of Archaeological Science 29, no. 5 (May 2002): 457–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jasc.2001.0734.

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Stevens, M. M. "Revision of the genus Mitelloides Evans, with two new species from northern Australia (Homoptera: Cicadellidae)." Insect Systematics & Evolution 21, no. 3 (1990): 281–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187631290x00201.

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AbstractThe genus Mitelloides Evans is revised. Three species are recognised and described; M. moaensis Evans (the type species) and two new species, M. thorntonensís and M. mouldsi. A key to the males of the genus is provided, and the known distributions of all species are mapped. The genus is known only from north-east Queensland, the Torres Strait Islands, and Papua New Guinea.

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Bohane, Ben, and Bec Dean. "Ben Bohane's portrayal of spirit and war in Melanesia." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 12, no. 2 (September 1, 2006): 161–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v12i2.867.

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As a photojournalist, writer and producer of television documentaries, Ben Bohane has spent the past 12 years posting stories about life on the islands of Melanesia to the Western media—illuminating the struggles and the spirit worlds behind the news. Melanesia is as close to Australia as a 150km cruise from the tip of Cape York across the Torres Strait to Papua New Guinea, connecting Australasia to the rest of Oceania and Asia. Until recently, though, these islands have seemed distantly removed from Australia and New Zealand’s notion of its international community.

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Wallace, Jack, Marian Pitts, James Ward, and Stephen McNally. "Management of chronic hepatitis B in the Torres Strait Islands: an identified need for a comprehensive public health approach to chronic hepatitis B in remote Australian Indigenous communities." Australian Journal of Primary Health 20, no. 3 (2014): 273. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py12130.

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We aimed to document how health service providers in the Torres Strait Island region of northern Australia respond to chronic hepatitis B, and to identify priorities for the effective clinical management of the infection. Semi-structured qualitative interviews with 61 health service providers were conducted in 2011 in the Torres Strait and north Queensland region to explore issues affecting chronic hepatitis B management. Two critical issues were identified affecting the health service response to chronic hepatitis B: (i) the absence of a systems-based approach to clinically managing the infection; and (ii) variable knowledge about the infection by the health workforce. Other issues identified were competing and more urgent health priorities, the silent nature of chronic hepatitis B infection at an individual and systems level, inadequate resources and the transient health workforce. While people living in the Torres Strait region are screened, diagnosed and informed that they are infected with chronic hepatitis B, there is an ad hoc approach to its clinical management. An effective and coordinated public health response to this infection in remote and isolated Australian Indigenous communities needs to be developed and resourced. Critical elements of this response will include the development of clinical guidelines and workforce development.

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Bloomfield, Matthew, Daniel Fedorov, and Patrick McGuire. "Applying the Pareto Principle to Remote Community Seawater Desalination on Torres Strait Islands." IDA Journal of Desalination and Water Reuse 3, no. 3 (July 2011): 33–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/ida.2011.3.3.33.

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Atkinson, Jeanette, Tracy Buck, Simon Jean, Alan Wallach, Peter Davis, Ewa Klekot, Philipp Schorch, et al. "Exhibition Reviews." Museum Worlds 1, no. 1 (July 1, 2013): 206–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/armw.2013.010114.

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Steampunk (Bradford Industrial Museum, UK)Framing India: Paris-Delhi-Bombay . . . (Centre Pompidou, Paris)E Tū Ake: Māori Standing Strong/Māori: leurs trésors ont une âme (Te Papa, Wellington, and Musée du quai Branly, Paris)The New American Art Galleries, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, RichmondScott's Last Expedition (Natural History Museum, London)Left-Wing Art, Right-Wing Art, Pure Art: New National Art (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw)Focus on Strangers: Photo Albums of World War II (Stadtmuseum, Jena)A Museum That Is Not: A Fanatical Narrative of What a Museum Can Be (Guandong Times Museum, Guandong)21st Century: Art in the First Decade (QAGOMA, Brisbane)James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific (Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn)Land, Sea and Sky: Contemporary Art of the Torres Strait Islands (QAGOMA, Brisbane) and Awakening: Stories from the Torres Strait (Queensland Museum, Brisbane)

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Qi, Guo-Jun, Jian Ma, Jing Wan, Yong-Lin Ren, Simon McKirdy, Gao Hu, and Zhen-Fei Zhang. "Source Regions of the First Immigration of Fall Armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Invading Australia." Insects 12, no. 12 (December 10, 2021): 1104. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects12121104.

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Fall armyworm is recognized as one of most highly destructive global agricultural pests. In January 2020, it had first invaded Australia, posing a significant risk to its biosecurity, food security, and agricultural productivity. In this study, the migration paths and wind systems for the case of fall armyworm invading Australia were analyzed using a three-dimensional trajectory simulation approach, combined with its flight behavior and NCEP meteorological reanalysis data. The analysis showed that fall armyworm in Torres Strait most likely came from surrounding islands of central Indonesia on two occasions via wind migration. Specifically, fall armyworm moths detected on Saibai and Erub Islands might have arrived from southern Sulawesi Island, Indonesia, between January 15 and 16. The fall armyworm in Bamaga most likely arrived from the islands around Arafura Sea and Sulawesi Island of Indonesia, between January 26 and 27. The high risk period for the invasion of fall armyworm is only likely to have occurred in January–February due to monsoon winds, which were conducive to flight across the Timor Sea towards Australia. This case study is the first to confirm the immigration paths and timing of fall armyworm from Indonesia to Australia via its surrounding islands.

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Hempenstall, Allison J., Simon Smith, David Stanton, and Josh Hanson. "Melioidosis in the Torres Strait Islands, Australia: Exquisite Interplay between Pathogen, Host, and Environment." American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 100, no. 3 (March 6, 2019): 517–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.18-0806.

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Sinha, Ashim, Henrik Falhammar, Bronwyn Davis, Dianne Bond, Deirdre Frost, Marissa Arnot, Edna Sambo, and Alexandra Raulli. "HD3-2 Screening and follow-up for gestational diabetes in the Torres strait Islands." Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice 79 (February 2008): S47—S48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0168-8227(08)70760-5.

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Hyde, KD, and JL Alcorn. "Some Disease-Associated Microorganisms on Plants of Cape York Peninsula and Torres Strait Islands." Australasian Plant Pathology 22, no. 3 (1993): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/app9930073.

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Green, Donna, Lisa Alexander, Kathy Mclnnes, John Church, Neville Nicholls, and Neil White. "An assessment of climate change impacts and adaptation for the Torres Strait Islands, Australia." Climatic Change 102, no. 3-4 (December 11, 2009): 405–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-009-9756-2.

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POGONOSKI, JOHN J., OFER GON, and SHARON A. APPLEYARD. "Redescription and distributional range extension of the Speckled Siphonfish, Siphamia guttulata (Pisces: Apogonidae)." Zootaxa 4766, no. 2 (April 20, 2020): 377–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4766.2.6.

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During seabed biodiversity surveys between 2003 and 2005 from the Torres Strait (Papua New Guinea) to the southern Great Barrier Reef (Queensland), hundreds of Siphamia specimens were collected. After Gon & Allen’s (2012) revision allowed greater interrogation of the Siphamia species present, a re-examination of preserved and frozen Siphamia specimens at the CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) was warranted. The material was re-identified as four commonly collected species (S. cuneiceps, S. roseigaster, S. tubifer, and S. tubulata) and a fifth unidentified species that appeared to key to S. guttulata, previously known only from the type locality. Further detailed investigations including an analysis of meristic, morphometric and COI barcoding data confirmed the identity of S. guttulata from almost the entire length of the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, from the Torres Strait in the north to the Northumberland Islands Group in the south. This study provides a redescription of Siphamia guttulata and highlights the importance of re-assessing the taxonomic status of museum material after revisionary studies.

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HUGHES, L. E., and A. BOPIAH. "New species of Nuuanu (Amphipoda: Nuuanuidae) from Norfolk Island, Torres Strait and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands." Zootaxa 3641, no. 2 (April 23, 2013): 165. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3641.2.4.

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White, Timothy, Gina Mincham, Brian L. Montgomery, Cassie C. Jansen, Xiaodong Huang, Craig R. Williams, Robert L. P. Flower, Helen M. Faddy, Francesca D. Frentiu, and Elvina Viennet. "Past and future epidemic potential of chikungunya virus in Australia." PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 15, no. 11 (November 16, 2021): e0009963. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009963.

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Background Australia is theoretically at risk of epidemic chikungunya virus (CHIKV) activity as the principal vectors are present on the mainland Aedes aegypti) and some islands of the Torres Strait (Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus). Both vectors are highly invasive and adapted to urban environments with a capacity to expand their distributions into south-east Queensland and other states in Australia. We sought to estimate the epidemic potential of CHIKV, which is not currently endemic in Australia, by considering exclusively transmission by the established vector in Australia, Ae. aegypti, due to the historical relevance and anthropophilic nature of the vector. Methodology/Principal findings We estimated the historical (1995–2019) epidemic potential of CHIKV in eleven Australian locations, including the Torres Strait, using a basic reproduction number equation. We found that the main urban centres of Northern Australia could sustain an epidemic of CHIKV. We then estimated future trends in epidemic potential for the main centres for the years 2020 to 2029. We also conducted uncertainty and sensitivity analyses on the variables comprising the basic reproduction number and found high sensitivity to mosquito population size, human population size, impact of vector control and human infectious period. Conclusions/Significance By estimating the epidemic potential for CHIKV transmission on mainland Australia and the Torres Strait, we identified key areas of focus for controlling vector populations and reducing human exposure. As the epidemic potential of the virus is estimated to rise towards 2029, a greater focus on control and prevention measures should be implemented in at-risk locations.

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McLean, Anna, Michael Waters, Emma Spencer, and Clive Hadfield. "Experience with cardiac valve operations in Cape York Peninsula and the Torres Strait Islands, Australia." Medical Journal of Australia 186, no. 11 (June 2007): 560–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01053.x.

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Foster, J’Belle, Diana Mendez, Ben J. Marais, Justin T. Denholm, Dunstan Peniyamina, and Emma S. McBryde. "Critical Consideration of Tuberculosis Management of Papua New Guinea Nationals and Cross-Border Health Issues in the Remote Torres Strait Islands, Australia." Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease 7, no. 9 (September 19, 2022): 251. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed7090251.

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The international border between Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) serves as a gateway for the delivery of primary and tertiary healthcare for PNG patients presenting to Australian health facilities with presumptive tuberculosis (TB). An audit of all PNG nationals with presumptive TB who presented to clinics in the Torres Strait between 2016 and 2019 was conducted to evaluate outcomes for PNG patients and to consider the consistency and equity of decision-making regarding aeromedical evacuation. We also reviewed the current aeromedical retrieval policy and the outcomes of patients referred back to Daru General Hospital in PNG. During the study period, 213 PNG nationals presented with presumptive TB to primary health centres (PHC) in the Torres Strait. In total, 44 (21%) patients were medically evacuated to Australian hospitals; 26 met the evacuation criteria of whom 3 died, and 18 did not meet the criteria of whom 1 died. A further 22 patients who met the medical evacuation criteria into Australia were referred to Daru General Hospital of whom 2 died and 10 were lost to follow-up. The cross-border movement of people from PNG into Australia is associated with an emergent duty of care. Ongoing monitoring and evaluation of patient outcomes are necessary for transparency and justice.

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