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Cairns-Horn Island air route to be de-regulated

By AARON SMITH CAIRNS to Horn Island air route is to be de-regulated from next year, with the TSRA welcoming the decision and Torres Shire Mayor Pedro Stephen describing it as: “Good news for locals.”

TSIRC Mayor Fred Gela says he is not sure if it is the right move.

De-regulation will come into force from 2015 when the existing contracts end.

Cairns-Horn Island is one of three routes involved; the others are Cairns-Weipa and

Townsville-Mt Isa. According to the Department of Transport and Main Roads, Cairns-Horn Island carries 67,000 passengers a year from 17 flights a week, while Cairns-Weipa carries 70 passengers from 17 flights.

Major carriers Virgin Airlines and Rex Aviation said they would review the situation following the announcement.

Torres Shire Mayor Pedro Stephen said: “In terms of destabilising the monopoly on high prices, this is good news.

“It gives local consumers better bar-

gaining power to secure reasonable low community airfares, either through market competition or as part of the government tender, especially if there is extreme differences between average market price and one that constituents can afford.

Council have always supported competition between the Cairns and Horn Island air route.”

TSRIC Mayor Fred Gela said: “One would think that competition should result in increase services at lower cost.

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Cairns-Horn Island air route to be de-regulated << From Page 3 “I’m not sure if it is the right move for us, as we are completely reliant on air travel, unlike Weipa and Mt Isa we do not have a road.

“In saying this the decision has been made and we trust it will bring benefit to my people.

“Everyone can rest assure that if we believe at anytime it is the wrong decision we will keep the Minister to his promise and seek reregulation,” Mr Gela said.

TSRA Chairman Mr Joseph Elu said opening the route to competition should result in better services to the Torres Strait and lower fares.

“QantasLink is the only contracted airline operating from Cairns to Horn Island, so opening this route up to more competition can only be a positive for the Torres Strait,” Mr Elu said.

“The flow-on effects of the

current situation are felt by people living in the region and also create barriers to increased tourism and economic development.”

Mr Elu said while market forces would dictate the service provided, the region will not accept a lowering of standards following deregulation.

Cook MP David Kempton stated it was inevitable as demand for the services in locations such as Horn Island grew, that this route would be deregulated.

“I will continue to watch the level of services and cost of airfares associated with this flight and will work very closely with the local community to ensure the region is not disadvantaged,” he said.

QantasLink has had a monopoly on these air routes and North Queensland Area Manager Matt Trevett-Lyall was being tight-lipped about the decision: “We will have to

look at what’s been proposed and put all the facts together.

Spokesperson from Qantas said: “Qantas will continue to provide vital air services to our loyal customers in these communities.

Qantas has proven to be the airline of choice on contested regional routes around Australia which is due to our exceptional service, leading on time performance, connections and frequencies to domestic and international destinations, as well as our market leading frequent flyer program.”

Virgin Airlines have expressed an interest in these routes in the past and a spokesperson from the airline said: “We are reviewing our options in terms of route expansion in light of the Government’s announcement.”

Spokesperson from Rex Airlines said: “Rex’s decision to operate any of the mentioned routes post

de-regulation would be a normal commercial decision and would also be subject to QantasLink’s future intentions in regards to maintaining services on these routes post de-regulation.”

Transport and Main Roads Minister Scott Emerson said February 20: “We are a government that is working to revitalise frontline services, as promised at the election, and this decision will remove red tape for the airline industry and achieve that.”

“From 2015, when the existing contracts end, three routes will be opened up to commercial competition so the market can set the best price and service levels. All other routes will go out to tender.

“We’ll continue to monitor patronage on these routes with the option to re-regulate if we feel the airlines aren’t delivering for regional communities,” Mr Emerson said.

Gov’t ‘not listening’ to the Weipa people ACTING Chairman of the Weipa Town Authority Richard “Stretch” Noonan has accused the State Government of not listening to the people.

“DIAC (Department of Immigration and Citizenship) will officially pull out of the region at the end of this month (February).

“They used 3000 plus flights into Weipa in 2013 which will bring the number of passengers down under the 65,000 per annum thresh hold which is required to justify de-regulation.”

Mr Noonan said as well Cape Alumina had pulled out of their tenement in the now strategic environment area which is part of the Wenlock River following the decision of the Newman Government.

“Then the South of Embley project has been delayed.

“Therefore, the flights for 2014 will be well below the numbers required for deregulation although de-regulation will come into effect from January 1, 2015.”

Mr Noonan said de-regulation will cause uncertainty in pricing as well as flights.

“It will affect people’s health including getting out to see specialists; getting out to have babies, connecting flights for holidays, business etc.

“There will be a whole range of areas which will be affected,” he said.

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Police call for ‘extra care’ in wet conditions that loss of life was not a result,” Snr Sgt Horn said.

It is believed the vehicle left the roadway at Warraber and rolled over the seawall down onto the rocks under the tide line.

If the vehicle was not removed from its landing spot it would have been submerged under the incoming tide. It is unknown what has caused the vehicle to lose control but all possibilities are being looked at by the police.

“Thursday Island Police urges all road users to be cautious during this wet season as road conditions do change quickly.

“Reminder on the Fatal Five - Impaired Driving (Alcohol / Drugs), Speed, Seatbelts, Fatigue and Inattention,” Snr Sgt Horn said.

Other incidents this month include damage and graffiti at the Thursday Island Bowls Club and a fire, which officers on the scene put out.

Also this month a man from PNG on Saibai has been charged with selling ‘sly grog’. He was

The car onvolved in a single-vehicle accident on Warraber on February 15. arrested with 80 litres of cask week.

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Ivy to represent Torres Strait at UN meeting in New York IVY Trevallion (right), a resident of Thursday Island, has been selected to represent Australia at the 58th UN Commission of the Status of Women (UNCWS) in New York next month.

Ivy Trevallion and Aboriginal woman Dorothy Henry, from Western Australia are the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Alliance (NATISWA), will be attending this globally important meeting on March 10 to 21 at the UN Headquarters.

Ms Trevallion said: “There is a very extensive agenda for two weeks and it is very exciting as I have only previously been to the west coast of the USA.” Ms Trevallion will first travel to Canberra on March 3 to 4 as part of International Women’s Day. “There will be a day of advocacy, with the intention to meet with Ministers to deal with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women’s issues at a national level, before heading to New York to discuss them on a global level,” Ms Trevallion said.

The UNCSW was established in 1946 as a mechanism to promote, report on and monitor issues relating to the political, economic, civil, social and educational rights of women. It has met annually since 1947.

The UNCSW aims to raise the status of women, irrespective of nationality, race, language or religion, to equality with men in all fields of human enterprise, and to eliminate all discrimination against

women in the provisions of statutory law, in legal maxims or rules, or in interpretation of customary law.

Similar to UNCSW, NATISWA also has a human rights agenda in its strategic framework.

NATSIWA Chairperson Dea Delaney-Thiele said: “Part of our vision is around advocating for human rights, in particular around domestic violence, as well as women’s and children’s issues.”

NATSIWA aims to work to advocate and empower the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women in Australia.

“Dorothy and Ivy coming out of their communities to attend this UN meeting is just a real buzz for both of them. This is about advancing women’s issues working toward life and learning development goals as well as about our goal of political participation, gender equality and empowerment of our women, Ms Delaney-Thiele said.

“They will give their perspective at many different forums that will be occur. There will be a lot of the NGO’s there and it offers the potential to connect with them, not only from Australia but across the globe. We thought it was really important to get both an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander woman to represent Australia.

“This is a really good opportunity to ensure that an Aboriginal and a Torres Strait Islander woman could attend and we thank the Commonwealth Government for allowing to use part of our funding to do that, because it would have been prohibitively expensive otherwise,” Ms Delaney-Thiele said.

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OFFICER-in-Charge of Thursday Island Police Snr Sgt Jamie Horn is urging drivers to take extra care on the roads in these wet conditions.

“As well as the accident involving a child on a bike being hit by a car recently on Thursday Island, where the child received serious injuries, there was also a single vehicle accident on Warraber Island,” Snr Sgt Horn said.

Police are still investigating the incident which occurred on Saturday morning, of February 15.

Two of the four occupants of the car were transported to the Thursday Island hospital as a result of injuries sustained which are not life threatening.

Police from Thursday Island flew to Warraber to investigate and have interviewed the driver of the vehicle. There has been no decision on whether the driver will be prosecuted at this time.

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VALE: ENEMARKI MATTHEW ZARO 22/11/1917 - 7/02/14 VALVAL

By ALF WILSON HIGHLY respected Enemarki Matthew Zaro has died aged 96.

Enemarki was a proud Dauareb Elder who was known as Papa Zaro.

He was born on November 22,1917 and passed away on February 7, 2014.

The late Mr Enemarki Zaro was a proud Dauareb elder from the Dauareb Tribe, Dauar Island (forms part of the Meriam Group) and a Meriam Elder from Mer Island in the Eastern Torres Straits.

Enemarki was a direct descendent of the late Nunu of Teg - Dauar

Island. Nunu’s wife was from Mabuiag Island. They had three children, Wagai, Wasalgi and Billy.

Wasalgi married Katabo (nee Stephen) from Stephen Island (Ugar), they had four children: Uni Uni, Zaro, Wagai and Largod.

Uni Uni died at an early age with no descendents, Zaro married Sedoi (nee Day) Wagai married Beskak Day and Largod married Bublu Day. The intermarriage forms the Zaro and Day Clan from Mer Island.

Zaro and Sedoi had eleven children: Late Balaga Maza (nee Zaro), Late Gabee Ansey (nee Zaro), Late

Uni Zaro, Late Jimmy Wailu, Late Sodom Zaro, Late Maier Zaro, Late Gabebee Gesa (nee Zaro), Late Laura Kudub (nee Zaro), Late Enemarki Zaro, Late Tulu Tapim (nee Zaro), and Late Nunu Zaro.

Enemarki married Gagee (nee Kubub) from Mer Island, they had 13 children: Serai Ghee (nee Zaro), Late Maureen Matakia (nee Zaro), Lesigo Ghee (nee Day), Dulcie Whaleboat (nee Zaro), Patrick Zaro, Gabee Taylor (nee Zaro), Loretta Zaro, Carmilla Wailu, Lenny Zaro, Lydia Marou (nee Zaro), Kaddy Zaro, Kevin Zaro, Francis Zaro.

LOVE AND FAMILY A MAN, dearly loved by all his family, with strong Christian beliefs, good morals and integrity.

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1970’s, Enemarki and his wife made a home in Townsville before moving to Ayr. Most of his siblings and other family members died at an early age for him, however, his role expanded; he became a father figure to many during his time.

Papa lost the love of his life at the age of 75 years in Ayr and buried his wife in Ayr. He remained a widower for the remaining years.

Each family member shares good stories from a man with wealth of traditional knowledge.

Papa was always surrounded

by family, love, happiness and excitement, never a dull moment in his life. He relocated back to his original home at Webok Villige - Mer Island few years after his wife died, however, he spent his last seven years of life with his youngest daughter Lydia, son-in-law Tebay and their son Mimi in Townsville until he passed away at the Townsville General Hospital on February 7, 2014.

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He was laid to rest at the Ayr cemetery where Papa will rejoin his wife Late Gagee Zaro.

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Zageth Matha Ulaik PAPA Zaro was a traditional Meriam gardener in his early days, a seafaring man who knew the home reefs of Mer, Dauar and Waier like the back of his hands.

He later moved to mainland Australia like most Torres Strait Islander’s looking for better employment opportunities, working on the railway laying tracks and other duties in Western Australia and Queensland until he retired at the age of 65 years.

P a p a ’s f a v o u r i t e motto - “Zageth Matha Ulaik”; after retirement from the railway he worked as a screen printer in Ayr (Queensland) for many years, a few odd jobs on the side to keep his family together, plus to keep active and healthy. Papa was an active and social man who helped those in need and loved his garden work.

At the age of 95 years, his health started to decrease and his physical activity was minimised, bed bound two months before passing away at the age of 96 years.

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Enemarki Zaro in a vehcile during Anzac Day march along Townsville Esplanade in 2010 ENEMARKI was one of the few re- Light Infantry Battalion during 1942-45. maining Torres Strait Light Infantry WWII. This unit was unique, being the Battlion who served in WWII. He was the last surviving mem- only Indigenous Australian battalion Of the 880 men in the Torres ber from the Mer volunteers until ever formed by the Australian Army.

Strait Light infantry Battalion, there his death.

Papa stood proud alongside his are only three remaining today.

Enemarki was a member of the compatriots and Australian solders Enemarki was one of 116 Torres Strait Light Infantry Bat- in defence of Australia against the members from Mer, which had the talion which assisted the Australian looming invasion by the Japanese highest recruitment of soldiers who Defence Force and Allied forces in Imperial Defence Force in the served with the Torres Strait (TS) their fight to protect Australia from darkest days of World War II. Page 4 Torres News

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TSRA funding change ‘to promote better business practice’

By AARON SMITH FUNDING conditions could be set to change for individuals, organisations and communities in the Torres Strait in the next financial year, TSRA Chairman Joseph Elu (right) said.

Due to the global financial climate and the belt-tightening of both State and Federal Governments, Mr Elu is not sure if grants under the Community Enterprise Incentive Scheme will offered, moving instead to a loan structure.

“This financial year we are going to have a look at the CEIS grant funding model, which other funding body offers any more and decide whether we be offering it in the future.

“We will not be offering CEIS grants in the next round of funding. Depending on the review, we may or may not be offering these grants in the following round in September,” Mr Elu said.

So the TSRA may be moving more to a system of loans rather than grants for future funding.

“We are trying to develop a better business ethic in the Torres Strait community.

We want people to be more business minded.

“My hope is that by developing that business mindset, they can then go to a bank , any bank and successfully apply for a business loan, he said.

“By taking out loans with the TSRA and successfully paying them will give them a

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dropping the grant scheme, as I can’t see any of the island communities surviving without some form of grants.

The only way BIF got started was with grant funding,” Mr Gadsby said.

“I don’t know how anybody starting up a business could

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Hopefully this is the bottom of the trough and the crayfish industry is again on the rise.

good credit history and help develop a proper business model,” Mr Elu said.

Peter Gadsby, CEO of Badu Island Foundation (BIF), an NGO that is the main income driver for Badu, is not so sure a loans structure of funding will work.

BIF had to decline a TSRA loan last year due stringent conditions applied, including directors becoming personal guarantees, something virtually unheard of for an NGO. BIF applied for a loan as they were trying to become more autonomous and move away from a culture of handouts of grants.

“I can’t see the TRSA

afford to service a loan, I think it will stifle economic development.”

Mr Elu suggests before an organisation or individual comes to a body like the TSRA and applies for funding, they should have a structured business plan in place.

“A proper business model and business plan that clearly states their aspirations, and actual steps of how they aim to reach those aspirations.

“They also should be able to show their figure from the previous financial year, what assets they have, that they have appropriate licences.

“Like a business in any capitalist country, that you

have the proof you can service a loan, or if its a grant you can prove it was used appropriately,” Mr Elu said.

Mr Elu believes the Torres Strait is not a good place to do business in right now, as with much of the world, the business climate is still very tough since the global Financial Crisis.

“I hope that a better business mindset develops not only in Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal people, but all people in the region.

“In the 70’s and 80’s this place was humming, with Trochus fishermen, then the crayfish industry boomed.

“Hopefully this is the bottom of the trough and the crayfish industry is again on the rise,” Mr Elu said.

“There is also a downward trend in government funding, everything goes in a cycle and I think things may pick in the near future.”

Funding for NPA men’s support services MEN’S support services in Far North Queensland Indigenous communities are set to receive a much needed boost thanks to a new $2 million State Government funding initiative.

David Kempton, Member for Cook, said applications were now open for the new funding which would deliver support services to help tackle health and wellbeing issues, including reducing alcohol-related harm in the Doomadgee, Mornington Island, Kowanyama, Lockhart River, Mapoon, Napranum,

Northern Peninsula Area, Pormpuraaw, Wujal Wujal and Yarrabah communities.

“The Newman Government understands the rates of assaults and domestic and family violence are well above the state average in our indigenous communities,” Mr Kempton said.

“Alcohol can be one of the primary causes of much of this violence and often there are no alternate services available like the ones you find in major cities.”

Mr Kempton said the services would

provide face-to-face counselling to help people improve personal relationships, build emotional resilience and selfreliance.

“The men’s support services will also provide case management along with information, advice and referral for better health,” he said.

“Cultural identity is very important to indigenous wellbeing, so fostering cultural identity and links to cultural community will be a key part of this initiative.”

Fish will not thrive in the warmer oceans ACCORDING to an international team of researchers, the rapid pace of climate change is threatening the future presence of fish near the equator.

“Our studies found that one species of fish could not even survive in water just three degrees Celsius warmer than what it lives in now,” says the lead author of the study, Dr Jodie Rummer from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE) at James Cook University.

Dr Rummer and her colleagues studied six common species of fish living on coral reefs near the equator.

She says many species in this region only experience a very narrow range of temperatures over their entire lives, and so are likely adapted to perform best at those temperatures.

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IBIS helps bring recycling to Torres Strait/NPA

By AARON SMITH “It’s about you, the next generation to Keep Australia beautiful and recycle,” Bruce Ranga from IBIS said on February 13 to students.

Speaking outside Thursday Island IBIS Supermarket, Bruce was explaining the importance of recycling to students of Sacred Heart Primary School.

IBIS has been awarded two, $10,000 Keep Australia Beautiful Beverage Container Recycling Grants to implement a recycling program for aluminium drink cans and plastic drink bottles in Bamaga and on Thursday Island.

With more than 10,000 kilograms of empty bottles and cans being dumped in the region each year, IBIS believes that a properly managed and supported program at each of the IBIS stores could realise a dramatic reduction in litter and environmental damage in the Torres Strait and NPA communities, with a large percentage of this waste recycled.

Ian Copeland, CEO of IBIS, said: “A really strong environmental stance is part of our corporate mission, and this program complements what we have been doing already where we have been recycling our cardboard for the past three years.”

IBIS has provided collection bins and can crushers in Bamaga and gratefully receives assistance from KAB, the Coca Cola Foundation and Sea Swift in implementing the recycling program.

“IBIS have been partnered for years with Coca Cola to bring about healthy programs. It’s with their assistance that we are able to offer the $1 water bottles, which has been highly successful.

“I guess that it has also contributed to the issue of Peta plastic waste, so this program is to help tackle that,” Mr Copeland said.

The Keep Australia Beautiful community grants program, funded by Coca-Cola, is now in its fourth year, providing $440,000 shared to 71 local community projects nationally.

Last year’s program resulted in 274 tonnes of beverage containers being recovered and around 1380 new recycling bins being installed in public places nationally.

Since the community grants program started, over $1.24 million has distributed to 190 projects, assisting almost 3 million people to ‘do the right thing’ and recycle their bottles and cans in public places.

David Curtin, KAP CEO Qls, said: “For many people, the barrier to recycling when they are out and about is simply due to a lack of recycling bins in public places.”

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Hammond Island Church. PHOTO: Vivi Silva.

Third Tuesday of the month. Torres Shire Council monthly meeting, Council Chambers TI 9am.

Every Thursday: TI Bowls Club Social Games from 6pm.

FEBURARY Mon 24 - Fri 28. Eyedentity Optometrists visiting Thursday Island.

MARCH Sun 2. Clean up Australia Day. Mon 3. Women's Health Clinic RFDS visiting Boigu Island and Yam Island.

Mon 3 - Tue 4. Women's Health Clinic RFDS visiting Badu Island and Murray Island.

Mon 3 - Fri 7. Eyedentity Optometrists visiting Bamaga.

Tue 4 - Wed 5. Women's Health Clinic RFDS visiting Saibai Island and Warraber Island.

Wed 5. Women's Health Clinic RFDS visiting St. Pauls Island and Darnley Island.

Wed 5 - Thu 6. Women's Health Clinic RFDS visiting Coconut Island.

Thu 6. Women's Health Clinic RFDS visiting Kubin Island and Yorke Island.

Fri 7. Women's Health Clinic RFDS visiting Horn Island.

Fri 7 - 9. Life Giving Rally, Warraber Island.

Sat 8. Mini markets, PKA Hall, TI, 9am-noon.

Tue 11. Women's Health Clinic RFDS visiting Bamaga.

Mon 17 - Wed 19. Eyedentity Optometrists visiting Badu Island.

CHURCH SERVICES Anglican, All Souls and Saint Bartholomew Church meets weekly at 10am at 124 Douglas St Thursday Island Independent Church Parish of the Resurrection TI, Morning Prayer Sundays 10am, Evening Service 7pm Parish of St Bethel,131 William Cr Bamaga NPA, Sundays 10am Uniting Church, 114 Douglas St Thursday Island, Sundays 10am

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 OPINION / LETTERS TO ThE EdITOR Email: editor@torresnews.comau Fax: 1300 STRAIT (1300 787 248)

Lagau concerns, Iama Island AS a Iamalaig Traditional Owner, a Constituent and Ratepayer, I am writing to express my concerns publicly on the contentious issues currently happening on my island in regard to Katter Leases.

My concern is that not all Traditional Owners of land on Iama were originally consulted, and some applicants on the lease are not valid due to traditional custom not being followed, e.g. land which was given to live on without the approval of the rightful Traditional Owner.

The implications of this are that the descendants of the original owner are being alienated from their Father’s land and inheritance.

Council alone cannot be the all-knowing Power Broker, and these leases must be amended by thorough consultation with rightful Traditional Owners of their land and the PBC Chair as a matter of urgency.

In regard to the consultation on Iama for the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing, it is my view that Traditional Owners near and far must be contacted prior to Community consultation as they have the sole right to decide what happens on their land.

Past and current ongoing Iama Housing waiting list clients

Pig chases jogger A JOGGER on Millmans Hill, Thursday Island, earlier this month was chased by a feral pig while jogging up towards the wind turbines.

“I looked up and saw the pig, it screamed and charged me.

“I’ve never run so fast in my life,” she said.

Obviously shaken up, but unharmed the jogger still runs up Millmans Hill, but with her eyes now peeled.

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(based on priorities) must be maintained. Katter leases must be scrapped, reviewed or amended and families who were given land to live on must not be intimidated by anyone that the land given to their family will be taken back.

Otherwise we will have 6070% of our Community families without a home to live in.

This is definitely not part of our Cultural Practice and Values; never was and never will be.

Council or others cannot disrespectfully impose themselves upon unsuspecting tenants by putting anyone in their homes without first consulting the head tenants.

Should this happen, it will be contradictory to Council’s status of maintaining family connectivity to their inheritance.

It is a fact of life that at times families have a temporary leave of absence for health, school, work etc.

If tenants who have been away from Iama for six months lose their tenancy to others who are not immediate family, there will be rifts in the community and increased unemployment as people quit their jobs and go back to live on the island where job vacancies are almost non-existent.

Of course if we are to live in a Government-provided home,

we are expected to pay rent and excessive rental arrears must be addressed at this consultation, as it denies a new home to those community members who are still on the waiting list.

Our Cultural way of Life (Ilan Pasin) guides us to be proactive in ensuring safety and harmony in the community.

I call on the Council to be more transparent in their deliberations, and not to make rash and biased decisions which will only cause rifts in the community and gaps in our Cultural way of Life.

Eso, Simeon Makie, Iama Island.

Will non-Indigenous have to pay for medical services?

Contacts & Deadlines EDITOR:

Photo of Iama courtesy of TSRA.

RUMOURS, that Queensland Health will soon be charging medical fees for non-Indigenous residents of the Torres Strait, are apparently untrue.

At least at the moment anyway.

That’s according to this week’s Torres Strait-Northern Peninsula Hospital and Health Service Acting Chief Executive Mr Philip Davies (right).

(Last week the role was filled by David Tibby who was apparently the Acting, Acting CEO).

When asked if there would be charges for non-indigenous residents in the near future, Mr Davis said that the Torres Strait-Northern Peninsula Hospital and Health Service does not charge Medicareeligible patients for services delivered at any of its hospitals and clinics and that Indigenous and non-Indigenous patients all have the same entitlements.

“The whole of the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula region also is

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covered by the Commonwealth Government’s Section 100 arrangement which means that prescription medicines listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule can also generally be provided free of charge to eligible patients,” Mr Davis said.

However Mr Davis made no comment on what may happen in the future, so I guess the question asked that was sort of answered still remains unanswered.

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COMMUNITY

Tony’s now finding life’s tough in the top job LIFE can be tough at the top as our Tony is finding out. We should be cruising along like a swan on the calm lake of prosperity that is the Australian economy, but instead, every morning when he gets out of bed a new boulder is waiting to fall on his head.

Only a year ago things had seemed so simple. All he had to do was winkle Julia out of the Prime Minister’s slot, win the election and the world would be his oyster. And so it was, for a day or two.

I blame the Indonesians. I mean, they are meant to be inscrutable and endlessly polite. What has got into them?

So we were listening to their President’s telephone calls, but that’s no more than a harmless prank. A little boyish good fun and no reason to go off in a huff. And they are being totally unreasonable about the refugees.

I don’t know if was their fault, but our dollar seems to have gone off in a huff as well.

It’s all very well to bang on about the wonders of the free market when the dollar in your pocket is worth a touch more every week, but when it suddenly drops, the cold wind of capitalism is blowing up your trouser leg and life for a hard-working Prime Mnister is

definitely uncomfortable.

And everyone has got their hand out. General Motors wanted propping up again, and threw a tantrum when Tony tried to expound the benefits of hard work making strong companies. They have gone, along with our car industry.

The fruit canners had their hand out, but they were easy to refuse.

Then Qantas joined the queue, threatening to replace the kangaroo emblem on their aircraft with a star and crescent if Tony wouldn’t hand over lots of cash.

Now the small farmers (natural coalition voters to a man) are demanding something is done

The

about the drought. No good giving bracing speeches about natural business cycles to them; they’re not listening.

They keep pointing out that if their animals don’t get fed, they will die. Tony has had to put his Akubra and An irreverent, satirical (and totally fictional) comment Williams on and go upon the issues of life, by our faceless correspondent. to kick some bull dust run off to the Americans. They think out in the wide dry land, or risk a Tony is not playing fair and I dare parliamentary revolt. say teacher will take a dim view of And now there is more. Likely Tony’s bad behaviour. a wimpy kid complaining about There might be more to the young thugs in the play ground, the Prime Minister’s job than our Tony Indonesians (yes, them again) have had imagined.

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For which vessel does the bell toll?

By BRIAN RANDALL OF THE many relics of various shipwrecks in the Torres Strait region, old ships’ bells are among the most poignant.

Many have been located over the years, by divers and others, with these bells acting as reminders of the dangers of shipping, particularly in our early history.

Iama (Yam Island) is said to be the location of two bells, one of which belonged to the Golden Gate and the other bearing the inscription Joseph Tradestrand.

This ship is said to have been lost off Horn Island, with its and the other bell both being later recovered.

On Moa is the bell of the Bona Fides and at Poruma (Coconut Island) and Ugar (Stephen Island) are bells without inscriptions, salvaged from wrecked vessels in the vicinity.

A large bell, bearing the inscription Integrity 1843, taken off a wreck off Mabuiag late in the 19th century,

eventually made its way into Somerset.

The ship to which this bell belonged was on a voyage from Sydney to China in around 1849 but was lost in the area of the Napoleon Passage.

A mystery bell on Thursday Island was found on a nearby reef and bears two inscriptions, Ship Sally and Schooner Triumph, however no more is known about the origin of this bell.

At Thursday Island, the bell which rings out from the belfry of All Souls Cathedral is the ship’s bell which was brought up from the wreck of the ill-fated Quetta, which was lost tragically, with a great loss of life, in 1890.

In around 1907, a bell was recovered in the vicinity of Thursday Island, bearing the name Volga and which then found its way south into New South Wales as a souvenir.

It is recorded that for many years it was used as a dinner bell at a home in Mosman, Sydney.

Subsequent research has revealed that the Volga was lost with all hands in the late 1870s.

This image, undated but probably from around the mid-1870s, shows the Volga at anchor, prior to its eventual demise in the waters of the Torres Strait.

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PHOTOS: AARON SMITH

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TAGAI High School students on Thursday Island enjoyed a Valentine Day Dance at Tamwoy Hall, February 14. However, only students with an attendance rate of at least 85 per cent were allowed to attend.

ABOVE LEFT: Alice Jobi, Peah Satric, Gaitup Satrik, Shizuke Nona, Zueina Nona, Madeina David, Timena Dau, Ursula Sam and LisaShay Prior.

LEFT: Alice Jobi, Madeina David, Peah Satrick, Ursula Sam and Grace Mafi.

RIGHT: Fred, Jello, Uriah, Errol, Noel, Belano and Kalapi.

LEFT: Gilmore Bon, Emmerson Charlie, Nabz Sailor and Antonio Majid.

RIGHT: Dylan Weston and Angelo Torenbeck.

DADU’S 30TH BIRTHDAY CRUISE On Valentines Day, friends from Horn Island and Thursday Island joined Dadu to celebrate his 30th birthday.

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TAGAI YEAR 12 INDUCTION DAY

By AARON SMITH

TAGAI Year 12 students were inducted into their roles on Friday, February 14, where the School and Sport Captains and Vice Captains were official given their titles.

Also all the Year 12 students presented a contract of commitment to principal Lyn-anne Chandler (right).

Ms Chandler in her speech said that she took the responsibility of educating her students seriously to ensure they reach their full potential, but she also reminded students that they must also take their education seriously.

“This is a very important year for you students and remember that with the choices you make will affect your future. To Choose to come to school and do your work, and be good role models

for the younger students.”

“I want you all to have a very clear pathway to university, or appenticeships, traineeships or quality based employement. I want you all to lead with a model

of exemplary attitude and behaviour,” she said.

She ended her speech quoting American motivational speaker, Zig Ziglar, “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”

A f t e r Ye a r 1 2 s t u d e n t s presented their contracts of commitment and recited the Senior’s Oath, Torres Shire Mayor Stephen said: “Words are my livelihood, but words without action become nothing.

“You students have swore an oath in front of your school and family, an oath spoken into the four winds, words which will echo from one generation to the next.

“These words you speak must shape up to the life that you will live.”

TOP LEFT: Tagai Tafe boys.

LEFT: Andrew Lui, Male Scholl Captain, (with Mayor Stephen).

RIGHT: Tanisha Pabai, Female School Captain, (with Mayor Stephen).

LEFT: Wilson Aniba, Male Vice Captain, (with Mayor Stephen).

RIGHT: Jena Stephen, Female Vice Captain, (with Mayor and father Pedro Stephen).

KOZAC

ABOVE: Kozac Sports Captains Takara Soki and Lettrell Uta (with Tammy Collins).

BELOW: Kozac Vice Sports Captains Amey Odo and Tanisha Seden (with Tammy Collins).

BAIDAM

ABOVE: Baidam Sports Captains Ezra Charlie and Maylein Bob (with Tammy Collins).

BELOW: Baidam Vice Sports Captains Oki Ahwang and Rosabel Gela (with Tammy Collins).

KUIAM

ABOVE: Kuiam Sports Captains, Isa Matthew and Levi Matthew (with Tammy Collins).

BELOW: Kuiam Vice Sports Captains, Jordana Kris and Angela Laifoo (with Tammy Collins).

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“Staying the course” in 2014

TAGAI STATE COLLEGE NAVIGATING YUMI TO A SUCCESSFUL FUTURE

Waybeni Buway Ngurpay Mudh parents and students were touched and proud of this year’s School Leaders when they gave their speeches at the School Blessing and Student Leaders’ Induction ceremony.

“Maiem Sew Ngapa. Good morning students, teachers and distinguished guests. I would like to esso Father God for this beautiful day and to acknowledge the traditional owners of this land - the Kaureg people and also the person inspired me to be a leader, my grandfather the late Mr Ronald Dela Bon. I would like to give a big thanks to all of the teachers and students who made a hard, but wise decision in electing me as a school captain for the upcoming year. Understanding this role, I promise to lead this school by example on which the code of conduct applies to. Last but not least, I thank everyone for listening and to the students who all sat quietly.

Samuel Bon-Wosomo - School Captain 2014

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Mabuiag Ngurpay Lag hosted the first Parent Session for their Campus..

Mabuiag Ngurpay Lag hosted the first Parent Session and had a great turn out of parents who attended the Information Session.

Mrs Nessa Stevens spoke about “Staying the Course”, and spoke of the 2014 goals and targets.

Parents had the opportunity to meet with teachers and find out about the teaching and learning of Term 1. They were excited to know that more sessions had been planned for the term.

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THURSDAY 27

6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 ABC News Mornings 10:00 Children’s Programs 12:00 Midday Report 12:30 Talking Heads 1:00 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL 1:30 Would I Lie To You? 2:00 At The Movies 2:30 As Time Goes By 3:00 Rain Shadow 4:00 New Tricks 5:00 Eggheads 5:30 ABC News: Early Edition 6:05 Grand Designs 6:55 Clarke And Dawe 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 8:00 The Checkout 8:30 Janet King: A Song Of Experience 9:30 The School 10:20 Lateline 10:55 The Business 11:25 Rome Wasn’t Built In A Day 12:10 Movie: “The Owl And The Pussycat” (M d,s) 1:45 Dalziel And Pascoe: Under Dark Stars 3:30 Basketball: WNBL: Semi Final 2 5:25 Eggheads

6:00 Today 9:00 Danoz Direct 9:30 Brand Developers 11:00 National Morning News 12:00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1:00 Movie: “The Forgotten” (M l,v) - A grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year old son is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals he was a fabric of her imagination. 3:00 National News Now 4:15 National Afternoon News 5:30 Hot Seat 6:00 National News 7:00 A Current Affair 7:30 The Block - Fans Vs Faves 9:10 TBA 11:10 CSI: NY: Civilized Lies 12:00 Extra 12:30 The Baron 1:30 Skippy - The Bush Kangaroo 2:00 Brand Developers 3:30 Good Morning America 5:00 National Early Morning News 5:30 Today

6:00 Sunrise 10:00 The Morning Show 11:30 Seven Morning News 12:00 Movie: “Going To The Mat” (PG a,v) 2:00 The Daily Edition 3:00 The Chase 4:00 Seven News At 4 5:00 Deal Or No Deal 5:30 Million Dollar Minute 6:00 Seven News 7:00 Home And Away 8:00 Tricked 9:00 Young, Lazy and Driving Us Crazy - Tonight, the young and lazy discover that houses don’t clean themselves. The work placement this week is to work at a local car wash and the arrival of a party bus leads the group astray.

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9:30 The Guilty - Line of Duty is a thriller that takes a probing look into modern policing and corruption.

10:30 Lateline 11:05 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL 11:35 Hustle 12:40 Rage

6:00 Today 9:00 Danoz Direct 10:00 Brand Developers 11:00 National Morning News 12:00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1:00 Movie: “Playing For Charlie” (M l) 3:00 National News Now 4:15 National Afternoon News 5:30 Hot Seat 6:00 National News 7:00 A Current Affair 7:30 The Big Bang Theory: The Prestidigitation Approximation 8:00 Talking Language With Ernie Dingo 8:30 TBA 12:40 Movie: “Dog Day Afternoon” (M l,v) - The true story of a man who holds up a Brooklyn bank to raise money for his lover’s sex change operation, only to see his simple heist turn into a citywide incident.

3:00 The Avengers: Escape In Time - Secret Agent Paxton searching an opulent country house comes across five death masks of the Thyssen family through the ages, all remarkably similar.

4:00 Brand Developers 4:30 Good Morning America

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12:45 Movie: “Remember Me” (M v,s) - Jenny gets the fright of her life when her ex-husband begins contacting her after being in a psychiatric ward for nine years.

3:00 Home Shopping 4:00 Dr Oz

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However Father Lamont is instructed by the Cardinal to investigate the death of Father Merrin, who originally exorcised Regan, only to learn the demon Pazuzu, king of evil spirits, was repossessing her.

3:35 Extra 4:05 Brand Developes 5:00 Skippy - The Bush Kangaroo / 5:30 Wesley Impact

6:00 Saturday Disney 7:00 Weekend Sunrise 10:00 The Morning Show - Weekend 12:00 TBA 2:30 V8 Xtra 3:00 Seven’s V8 Supercare 2014 6:00 Seven News 6:30 Seven’s V8 Supercare 2014 7:30 TBA 1:40 Hung: A Monkey Named Simian - Tanya finds out she’s not invited to Frances and Mike’s wedding. After breaking Jason’s nose, Ray steals back his clients. Meanwhile, Tanya bonds with Charlie’s sons who’ve been left in her care.

2:10 Special: Nature’s Gentleman - A look at the life of David Fleay, a naturalist who has dedicated his life to the preservation of and research into Australia’s wildlife.

3:00 Harry’s Practice 3:30 It’s Written Oceania 4:00 Home Shopping 5:00 Dr Oz: The Most Underperformed Surgery You Should Be Getting - Get answers to your health questions from Dr Oz and other leading doctors, hospitals, associations and authors.

5:00 World News 9:30 UCI Track World Championships 2014 1:30 The Russian Enigma 2:30 Gregory Crewdson 3:55 A Season At The Juillard School New York 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 A History Of Ancient Britain 6:30 World News Australia 7:30 Queen Of Tigers 8:30 Living With The Amish 9:30 Movie: “Drive” (MA v) - A Hollywood stunt driver by day moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver-for-hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA’s most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbour, Irene. When the job goes dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her son alive is to do what he does best - drive.

11:20 Movie: “Katyn” (MAV v,a) - In Polish, Russian and German.

1:30 Boob Tube: Sex, TV and Ugly George - Explores censorship and public decency on television using the example of the infamous 1970s ‘filmmaker’, Ugly George.

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6:00 Rage 7:30 Asia Pacific Focus 8:00 Weekend Breakfast 9:00 Insiders 10:00 Offsiders 10:30 Doc Martin 11:30 Songs Of Praise: Lowry’s Salford Then And Now 12:00 Landline 1:00 Gardening Australia 1:30 Wagner And Me 3:00 Basketball: WNBL: Preliminary Final 5:00 Midsomer Murders: The Electric Vendetta 6:30 Compass 7:00 ABC News 7:30 David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive 8:40 Rake 9:40 At The Movies Awards Special 10:40 TBA 11:40 Movie: “Hotel Sahara” (PG) - Emad is the owner of a luxury hotel in a North African desert oasis during World War II. He is ready to flee, but his fiancée insists they stay.

3:00 David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive 4:05 The New Inventors 4:30 Catalyst 5:00 Order In The House

6:00 Children’s Programs 7:00 Weekend Today 10:00 Financial Review Sunday 10:30 Sarah Shark 11:00 The Middle 11:30 Movie: “Free Willy” 2:00 2014 Intrust Supercup 4:00 The Block - Fans Vs Faves 5:00 RBT 5:30 South Aussie With Cosi 6:00 National News Sunday 6:30 The Block - Fans Vs Faves 7:40 60 Minutes 8:40 Fat Tony & Co 9:40 TBA 11:40 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Better Off Dead - The CSIs dig to find the truth about how a recent shootout at a gun store might connect to a young woman who may have committed suicide.

12:30 Financial Review Sunday 1:00 What Would You Do? 2:00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo 2:30 Brand Developers 4:00 Good Morning America - Sunday 5:00 National Early Morning News / 5:30 Today

6:00 Children’s Programs 7:00 Weekend Sunrise 10:00 The Morning Show Weekend 11:00 Dr Oz 12:00 Seven’s V8 Supercars 5:00 TBA 5:30 The Great South East 6:00 Seven News 6:30 TBA 1:00 Hannibal: Potage - Determined to give Abigail closure, Will and Hannibal travel with Abigail back home to the scene of her father’s crimes. But things go from bad to worse when a copycat killer murders Abigail’s friend.

2:00 Home Shopping 3:00 NBC Today - International news and weather including interviews with newsmakers in the world of politics, business, media, entertainment and sport.

4:00 NBC Meet The Press 5:00 Sunrise Extra 5:30 Seven Early News - Natalie Barr and Mark Beretta present the latest news, sport and weather from around Australia and overseas.

5:00 World News 9:30 UCI Track World Championships 2014 1:30 Play 2:30 Speedweek 4:00 2014 Superbike World Championship 4:30 UEFA Champions League Magazine 5:00 Wainwright Walks 5:30 Who Do You Think You Are? 6:30 SBS World News 7:30 Lost Worlds 8:30 Stephen Hawking: A Brief History Of Mine 10:15 Hawking 11:55 Movie: “The Anarchist’s Wife” (M l,s,v) In Spanish and French, English Subtitles. A moving drama about the undying love and suffering of a couple affected by the Spanish Civil War over several decades. Manuela is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco’s Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. When he disappears for many years, Manuela never gives up hope of seeing him again.

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6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 ABC News Mornings 10:00 Children’s Programs 11:00 Big Ideas 12:00 Midday Report 12:30 Talking Heads 1:00 Landline 2:00 Parliament Question Time 3:00 Rain Shadow 4:00 New Tricks 5:00 Eggheads 5:30 ABC News: Early Edition 6:05 Grand Designs 6:55 Audrey’s Kitchen 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 8:00 Australian Story 8:30 Four Corners 9:20 Media Watch 9:35 Q&A 10:35 Lateline 11:10 The Business 11:35 Dalziel And Pascoe: The Dig 1:20 Movie: “Sudden Fear” (PG) 3:10 Movie: “The Old Dark House” (PG) 4:30 Parliament Question Time: The House Of Representatives 5:30 Eggheads

6:00 Today 9:00 Danoz Direct 9:30 Brand Developers 11:00 Extra 11:30 The 86th Annual Academy Awards 3:00 TBA 4:00 National Afternoon News 5:30 Hot Seat 6:00 National News 7:00 A Current Affair 7:30 The Block - Fans Vs Faves 8:30 Love Child 9:40 The 86th Annual Academy Awards 12:00 Oh Sit! A high-stakes, musical chairs competition, in which 12 thrill-seekers race head-to-head through five physically demanding obstacle course-style eliminations as they each compete to claim a chair - all to the sounds of a live band. At the end of the hour, only one contestant will be left sitting triumphant to seize the cash prize and the title of OH SIT! champion.

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6:00 Today 9:00 Danoz Direct 10:00 Brand Developers 11:00 National Morning News 12:00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1:00 Movie: “Before Sunset” (M l,s) 3:00 National News Now 4:15 National Afternoon News 5:30 Hot Seat 6:00 National News 7:00 A Current Affair 7:30 The Block - Fans Vs Faves 8:40 The Big Bang Theory: The Hesitation Ramification 9:10 The Big Bang Theory: The Raiders Minimization 9:40 2 Broke Girls: And The Icing On The Cake 10:10 2 Broke Girls: And The Girlfriend Experience 10:40 Two And A Half Men: Bite Me, Supreme Court 11:10 Two And A Half Men: The Squat and Hover 11:40 Weeds: Cats! Cats! Cats!

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11:45 TBA 1:00 Home Shopping 4:00 NBC Today 5:00 Sunrise Extra 5:30 Seven Early News

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6:00 Today 9:00 Danoz Direct 10:00 Brand Developers 11:00 National Morning News 12:00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1:00 Movie: “Dead Calm” (M v,s,a,l) 3:00 National News Now 4:15 National Afternoon News 5:30 Hot Seat 6:00 National News 7:00 A Current Affair 7:30 The Block - Fans Vs Faves 8:40 TBA 10:40 CSI: NY: Nine Thirteen 11:35 Dallas: Guilt By Association - John Ross and Pamela make a shocking discovery about an enemy’s location the night J.R. was killed, compelling Bobby to reveal more of J.R.’s master plan.

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9:45 Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D: T.R.A.C.K.S 10:45 Defiance 11:40 Olivia Lee: Dirty, Sexy, Funny 12:05 Dr Oz 1:00 Home Shopping 3:30 Sons And Daughters 4:00 NBC Today 5:00 Sunrise Extra / 5:30 Seven Early News

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The story follows the Emperor, his Empress and the tragic disintegration of their imperial family.

1:00 Movie: “Teddy Bear” (M s,l) - In Czech. Jirka, Roman and Ivan have been friends since school. Now in their midthirties and with very different lives, their friendship has still lasted.

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CROSSWORD No. 187

SUDOKU No. 187

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PISCES (February 20th - March 20th) Just showing up to work does not mean you are doing your best. Try to energize your work life by adding in some fun and developing friendships. Romance.

A well-chosen compliment could brighten up your partner’s day later this week. Make sure that you wait until the right moment.

ARIES (March 21st - April 20th) You will have to be very patient with your friends this week. You may get a little irritated at times. They may realize their childishness and apologize for it.

Romance. Try not to be too critical of your partner.

Your judgements can be a little too harsh at times.

Be kinder to others!

TAURUS (April 21st - May 21st)

FOR KIDS

Lately, it may seem that you are outgrowing a few of your friends. This may be true. You will need to take a closer look at your friendship. Romance. A present given to you by an old partner may help you to remember this person. This would be a good time to get in touch with them.

GEMINI (May 22nd - June 21st) An encounter in an unexpected place will not disappoint you. You will be seeing this person again very shortly! Given the circumstance, you should do your best to impress them. Romance. A potential mate may disappoint you with something that they say. Don’t be too hard on them.

CANCER (June 22nd - July 23rd) Make sure that you know what you are getting yourself into. There may be hidden dangers that you are not aware of.

Unfortunately, they may be unavoidable!

Romance. You will be in the mood for a change this week. Everything is going well, but things certainly could be a little better.

LEO (July 24th - August 23rd) Once you have made up your mind, it is difficult to change it. You may need to overcome this if you want to move forward. Acknowledging this will be valuable this week. Romance. A new relationship will soon be getting off the ground. You may be uncertain about your feelings for this person.

FINDWORD No. 187 A LAUGH WITH LOTSA

VIRGO (August 24th - September 23rd) You will be very good at “reading between the lines” this week. Don’t miss the obvious, however. If you do, you will look silly! Romance. This will be a better time for working by yourself than for joint ventures. Be gentle with your mate when explaining that you need some time apart.

LIBRA (September 24th - October 23rd) Don’t forget your own needs. You may be so concerned at looking after other people that you forget what is happening.

Those who have your best interest at heart will understand. Romance. This will be the week to finally get things on the move. Take your relationship to the next level!

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SCORPIO (October 24th - November 22nd) You need a clear, straightforward answer later in the week and a vague promise will not be enough! You will have to be persistent with this! Romance. Be careful not to smother your partner with too much attention. They may need more time to “do their own thing” than you think.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23rd - December 21st) Relations with siblings may be causing a few upsets this week. There will be some issues that you may never be able to settle completely. You must accept this. Romance. Your relationship will benefit from a colleague’s advice. You need an outsider’s perspective on the current situation.

CAPRICORN (December 22nd - January 20th)

QUOTE OF THE DAY

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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

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SOLUTIONS No. 187

Relations with siblings may be causing a few upsets this week. There will be some issues that you may never be able to settle completely. You must accept this. Romance. Your relationship will benefit from a colleague’s advice. You need an outsider’s perspective on the current situation.

AQUARIUS (January 21st - February 19th) A recent change you’ve made is starting to plateau. This doesn’t have to be the reality. You can take things up a notch and keep soaring! Romance. You may be torn between two very strong feelings. It will be up to your mate to handle the situation and they don’t want to let you down.

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CTG and Indigenous incarceration rates : Abbott must Close The Gap on black justice By nacchomedia IN the lead-up to the 2013 election, Tony Abbott took a brief moment out from his relentless denigration of the government to broach a policy area that usually doesn’t make the debate.

Cautiously, he vowed to be a prime minister for Australia’s first peoples.

“It is my hope that I could be, not just a prime minister, but a prime minister for Aboriginal Affairs,” he said In an address to Federal Parliament on February 12, Abbott took a tentative step towards positioning Indigenous Affairs alongside the government’s holy trinity of policy talking points.

His government is “no less serious [about Indigenous Affairs] than it is about stopping the boats, fixing the budget, and building the roads of the 21st century.”

Putting Indigenous Affairs on the national agenda is a move that should draw praise. But the way Abbott has chosen to frame the issue raises questions about how serious his government really will be in its efforts to help overcome the outrageous disadvantage Indigenous Australians continue to experience.

Indigenous groups were quick to point out one particularly glaring omission from Abbott’s remarks.

“Today, Australia’s national shame is the mass imprisonment of Aboriginal people, particularly young people.

Australia’s Aboriginal children are detained at the world’s highest rates,” Phil Naden, the NSW and ACT Aboriginal Legal Service CEO noted in a press release.

“More than half of the young people in detention today (over 52 per cent) are Aboriginal, and most are unsentenced.”

Indigenous incarceration indeed remains a national shame. The Australian Bureau of Statistics paints a bleak picture, with rates of incarceration continuing to rise markedly between 2002 and 2012. West Australia is beyond crisis point, with the rate of incarceration for Indigenous Australians 20 times higher than non-Indigenous.

Despite the 1991 Royal Commission, deaths in custody have increased, along with the surging incarceration rate. There is little reason to think that the next generation of Indigenous Australians will fare much better.

Instead of raising the issue of justice, Abbott framed his address around education. Truancy rates must be reduced, he said, and the time for excuses was over.

“Generally speaking, the more remote the school, the more excuses are made for poor attendance,” he observed, before pledging to end the

gap between Indigenous and nonIndigenous school attendance within five years. No reference was made to a similar standard with which to target improvements in justice outcomes.

“We were very surprised to hear there was no bipartisan commitment today towards incorporating justice targets into the Government’s Closing the Gap strategy,” Naden said on Wednesday.

Improving rates of Indigenous school attendance is an easy sell to white Australia. Everybody can get on board with sending kids to school; there is an implicit blame placed on Indigenous communities for failing to enforce school attendance, or teach their children adequate patterns of civil behaviour.

“One of the worst forms of neglect is failing to give children the education they need for a decent life,” Abbott said, following the statement up with a list of state and federal government programs designed to lower truancy rates.

But like his entire address, the line was left open, raising the question of who exactly is responsible for that neglect? This is the Liberal Party’s characteristic approach: the individual is to blame for their personal failings and societal causes don’t rate a mention.

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the incarceration issue, he would have to openly and actively confront the issue of ongoing systemic discrimination against Indigenous Australians, and acknowledge its historical causes, including colonialism and racism.

That would mean talking to the nation plainly about deaths in custody and acknowledging the fact that a black man can still face violent treatment and be left to die in “protective custody” without police facing serious punishment.

It would mean taking on the state and territory governments - especially the Liberal ones - whose tough on crime policies disproportionately affect their Indigenous constituents.

It would mean investigating and policing routine police brutality, such as the recent taser attack by police on an Indigenous woman in Queensland, in which she lost an eye.

And it would mean facing off against a host of other powerful actors, like the Australian Hotels Association, who have succeeded in reversing the NT government’s efforts to limit liquor supply.

Abbott’s record on the issue is not strong so far.

One of the Coalition’s nastiest election eve announcements was the decision to slash $42 million from Aboriginal legal aid, a figure that was significantly reduced after the election

but will do much damage.

If he decides to pivot on the issue, and to devote the state’s energy and resources to lowering the almost unbelievable rates of incarceration, he will find a host of allies who are ready to take up the challenge. There is a growing awareness that by focusing state resources on policing and prisons we do nothing to attend to the causes of incarnation.

The justice reinvestment movement is starting to make this case publicly. There are also scores of Indigenous communities finding local solutions to the localised and diverse causes of incarceration.

There is some evidence to suggest the government will start to take an interest in such programs. Warren Mundine, the head of Abbott’s Indigenous Advisory Council today announced a program to help provide jobs training for Indigenous teenagers in WA. Abbott has frequently used his time in outback Indigenous communities as evidence that he can succeed where so many previous PMs have either failed, or failed to even try.

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RESIDENTS of Cape York endured yet another week of widespread telecommunication outages earlier this month.

And Cape York Sustainable Futures (CYSF) has been trying to meet

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with Telstra Executives and the Federal Government to find a solution to give residents muchneeded reprieve.

“We have been inundated with members complaints after the service for all land lines, mobile and internet which failed on Friday and then again on Sunday, taking all services out for most of the day,” said Trish Butler (right), Chief Executive Officer, CYSF. The region was without critical communications - this was without the presence of even a severe weather event. Over the past two months there has been widespread outages across the Cape York region including isolated stations.

“The system can only be considered fragile at best and relying on a single line of communication does not take into account the very basics of risk management.

“The situation needs urgent rectification,” Ms Butler said.

Most impacted were those that can ill afford it.

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machines were not only down in Weipa but all over the Cape, leading to large numbers of people unable to purchase essential food items,” Ms Butler said .

Residents of Cape York like Anne and Rodney Raymond, of Kimba Station, are outraged with the lack of communications all round and they say response times and service outcomes are getting worse In an email to CYSF they said: “Phone faults in CYP are taking longer to fix and they have to be fixed multiple times and still no guarantee that they keep working.

“Most faults are taking two to four weeks or longer to be looked at or fixed, “If the phones are out we are unable to put in a strip report on mail day so the mail doesn’t come. Sending a strip report by email does not guarantee that it is received at all or on time so again no mail.

“On other days we just don’t get a mail service for no reason or because there is no plane or the plane is getting serviced so no mail for

two weeks, “The internet is as unreliable as the phone and mail services. The NBN roll out has made no difference to speed or reliability it did give us a slightly bigger down/ upload but still doesn’t cope with requirements for school and the changing technology upgrades nor do they match a fraction of what is available in towns, “We cannot run a successful enterprise with services that only work sometimes and it will only get worse as the infrastructure is getting older and isn’t keeping up with demand, “Medical services are hindered because of road closures and bridges going under water even during the first storms of the wet season making it impossible to get to medical clinics.”

CYSF will be meeting with Federal Member for Leichhardt Warren Entsch immediately after his return from this sitting of Parliament with a view to him facilitating a meeting with senior executives of Telstra to explore more suitable service options.

“The Cape becomes paralysed because we depend on a single line of communication. In the 21st century this really is unacceptable.

“CYSF (then Cape York Peninsula Development Association) played a pivotal advocacy role in the ‘roll-out’ of mobile phone towers throughout the region; and we’ll be stepping up to the plate to again advocate for a better and much more improved service for Cape York residents,” Mrs Butler said.

Health support for Defence families THE families of Australian Defence Force members in Leichhardt can now receive additional support through free basic health care, says Federal MP Warren Entsch.

The Government’s National Australian Defence Force (ADF) Family Health Program came into effect on January 1, 2014 and delivers on one of the Government’s key defence election commitments.

Under the program, every dependant of full-time ADF members, and Reservists on Continuous Full Time Service, is eligible for reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses when visiting their local GP. In addition, ADF members can claim up to $400 per financial year, per dependant, for specialist consultation and allied health services such as physiotherapy, dentistry and mental health support.

“In Leichhardt, we have more than 650 dependants, including spouses, who are eligible under this program,” Mr Entsch said. “This is a terrific initiative and will be a huge help to local families.

“There’s no doubt that ADF members and their families face unique challenges, including uprooting to new postings every few years.

“It can be difficult to keep up-to-date with routine health care so this program will help ease the pressure on families while they are supporting their loved ones in uniform.”

For more information on the National Australian Defence Force (ADF) Family Health Program, visit www.defence.gov.au/health/deendant_healthcare/ihealthcare.htm

NEWS Last year's Telstra Art Award winner Jenni Kemarre Martiniello. Photo courtesy Koori Mail.

Indigenous artists encourged to enter national art award INDIGENOUS artists from Far North Queensland are being encouraged to enter the 2014 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) with entries for the country’s only national Indigenous art award now open.

This year there is a new ‘youth artist’ award on offer.

The award, which was established by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) in 1984, recognises the important contribution made by Indigenous artists and promotes an appreciation and understanding of the quality and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art throughout Australia, with support from principal sponsor Telstra. .The addition of the new Telstra Youth Award category is not the only change to the program this year.

Director of the Museum and Art Gallery of the NT Mr Pierre Arpin said NATSIAA will celebrate its 31st year with its largest prize pool in history.

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NPA league team could play in the Cape York Cluster comp.

AN NPA side may be part of the Cape York Cluster Rugby League competition in the 2014 season.

Many quality footballers live in the NPA communities of Bamaga, Injinoo, Seisia, Umagico and New Mapoon.

Whilst that may be the case however with no NPA competition held in 2013 many of the local players only competed when they lined up at Allblacks carnivals such as last November’s Dan Ropeyarn Memorial Carnival at Bamaga.

Some also played in the Zenadth Kes (ex Torres Cup) on Thursday Island or the Island of Origin on Badu Island in June.

A few also competed at All Blacks carnivals in Cairns or further away in Townsville.

At the annual general meeting of Rugby League Cape York at Weipa in mid-February it was touted that an NPA team would be in one of two Cape Cluster zones for the expanded 2014 season.

Weipa-based QRL Northern Division Development Officer Karl Adams told the Torres News on February 18 that the Cape Cluster would be will split into two divisions this year.

“The Northern Cluster would have sides from NPA, Weipa, Napranum, Lockhart River and Aurukun whilst the Southern Cluster will include Coen, Pormpuraaw, Kowanyama, Hope Vale, Cooktown and possibly Laura,” Mr Adams said.

Mr Adams said the competition

was scheduled to commence in May depending on road conditions.

During the 2013 season sides from Northern Cape, Southern Cape, Palm Island, Bowen and Three Rivers competed at a Remote Area Rugby League representative carnival in Cairns held in May. A Kaiwalagal Rugby League competition representative team was drawn to be involved.

However due to financial constraints that KRL side withdrew in the week leading up to the carnival.

After that carnival at which Bowen defeated Palm Island in the grand final, a Northern United side was picked to meet Queensland Outback in Cairns as

a curtain raiser to a Northern Pride game at Barlow Park.

Outback won that June 29 match 60-22 win after leading 24-16 at halftime.

Last year the Cape Cluster had six teams and Kowanyama Wallabies won their fourth successive premiership when they defeated Napranum 30-22 in the September 7 grand final at Coen.

It was the climax to a huge day of rugby league and a large crowd turned out.

Three fixture rounds had previously been held at Weipa, Kowanyama and Lockhart River.

NPA players have been sought after by clubs in the strong Cairns and District Rugby League and even by others in

Townsville and Mackay.

But most are reluctant to leave family and friends even though that had been offered employment in the major NQ cities.

QRL Northern Division Regional co-ordinator David Maiden told the Torres News that the proposed inclusion of NPA into the Cluster competition would be discussed soon.

“We are still sorting through everything and we have a planning meeting at TI on March 5 to coincide with the Sport & Rec forum – Eddie Newman from NPA will be there and we will be discussing their possible involvement in the Cape Cluster,” Maiden said.

Willy Nona on winning side of Imparja Cup

By ALF WILSON BADU Islander Willy Nona (left) was a member

of the Western Australia side which won the grand final of the Imparja Cup Indigenous Cricket varnival at Alice Springs on the second last ball.

The exciting final was played at Traeger Park under lights on February 15 in the crowd pleasing Twenty20 format.

Six Australian States and the NT competed in the blue ribbon Men’s State and Territory division.

WA won the final on the last ball scoring 4/96 in reply to NSW 7/95.

Right-arm, fastbowler Nona sent down four overs in the decider for good figures of 0-14 and didn’t get a bat.

On day two of the sixday carnival Nona starred with the ball taking 3-21 as his side dismissed South Australia for 108 in 19 overs.

WA had little trouble overtaking the total with 3/111 in 14.5 overs.

After the qualifying rounds WA finished first

on the ladder followed by NSW, Queensland, NT, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.

The day before the action commenced Nona played for the Black Caps against an ACA Masters side which included former Test All-rounder Greg Matthews and Queensland Sheffield Shield star Jimmy Maher.

Nona took 1-11 off his two overs in a game won by the Masters 3/129 to 93.

Nona remained two not out with the bat in the Black Caps side picked from players who has shone at the previous Imparja Cup. The 28-year-old Nona is from a big Torres Strait family and it was his third time representing WA where he works at Mt Tom Price.

He plays in WA’s Fortescue Cricket Association and is the son of Marie Nona who lives on Badu Island and is a sister of the late and great

Willy Nona with team mates.

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Willy Nona bowling in the carnival.

Badu Council Chairman Jack Ahmat.

His late father, William Nona. passed away several years ago.

“It was one of the best weeks of cricket I’ve played in.

“To go and win the Imparja Cup the way we did by just getting over the line against Northern Territory in the semi-final hitting the winning runs in the last over.

“Then to beat NSW in the final, from the second last ball of the game was

awesome.

“The WA boys played really well all week and all our hard worked paid off by taking the Imparja Cup back home with us to Western Australia,” Willy told Torres News on February 18.

In November, 2013, Willy travelled to Badu and loved it going fishing, hunting and looking for turtles and caught up with family and friends.

In June, 2013, Willy lined up for Badu Island side Koey Buay Wagadagam which lost the final of the Island of Origin Series 36-18 to Argun Warriors at the Joe Mairu Memorial Oval.

Women’s Final A 78-run secondwicket partnership between Samantha Gordon (35) and Roxsanne Van-Veen (33) propelled the New South Wales women’s team to a 63run victory at the Imparja Cup.