The Torres Strait is a strait which lies between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea.

The activities of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission and the transfer of certain specific responsibilities to the Torres Strait Regional Authority are noted with appreciation.

In 1978 an agreement between Australia and Papua New Guinea determined the maritime border in the Torres Strait.

It related to the rights of the Meriam people to the lands of the Murray Islands in Torres Strait.

This was the first occasion a ship was navigated through Torres Strait from west to east.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in the cross border region of Australia and Papua New Guinea

Aboriginal Hostels provide 3,300 beds for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across the country.

The country was home to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples thousands of years before white settlement.

In 2010, for example, there were 831, all over Australia, and the Torres Strait Islands, all states, working to improve the houses where they and their families live, and that's an important thing.

514. Major progress in the implementation of the Convention had been made for the benefit of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders.

The Commission manages the Employment and Capability Strategy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employees, which is aimed at

Stabilizing numbers over the next two years, then increase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' employment in the mainstream Australian Public Service

The maternal mortality ratio for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women continues to be higher than that for non indigenous women.

MEPC adopted a resolution (MEPC.133(53)) designating the Torres Strait as an extension of the Great Barrier Reef Particularly Sensitive Sea Area.

It was also the first occasion a ship was navigated through the Coral Sea from Torres Strait, south eastward to the southward of New Caledonia.

543. The situation of the Aboriginal and Torres Islander people remains a subject of concern, despite efforts aimed at remedying the injustices inherited from the past.

Australia apos s national indigenous peoples organization, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, has responsibility for coordination, planning and implementation of Decade activities in Australia.

A song called Marrin Gamu, created for primary school children and teachers to promote the diversity and beauty of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, is proving just that.

To help address the fact that the incidence of and deaths from cervical cancer among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women is significantly and disproportionately high compared to non indigenous women, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women's Forum has been supported by the Department of Health and Ageing since 2000.

Please provide information on what other strategies, including awareness raising, are in place to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women's access to health care services.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women continue to have their first and subsequent babies at significantly younger ages than non indigenous mothers.

Please provide information on what other strategies, including awareness raising, are in place to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women's access to health care services.

Patricia Olamendi Torres

Although some of the Torres Strait islands lie just off the coast of New Guinea, they were annexed in 1879 by Queensland, then a British colony.

A national strategy, Partners in a Learning Culture, and an accompanying blueprint for implementation are in place to address the underrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in vocational and educational training.

The Forum gives Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, in consultation with their own communities, the opportunity to develop and implement proactive, health promoting strategies in relation to cervical screening at the national level.

In July 2004, programmes previously administered by the Indigenous Law and Justice Branch of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services were transferred to the Attorney General's Department.

Singapore is separated from Indonesia by the Singapore Strait and from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor.

By March 2004 all of the mainland State libraries, the Northern Territory Library, the National Film and Sound Archive, the Australian War Memorial and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies had become participants.

In the 2001 Australian national census, the population of the islands was recorded as 8,089, though many more live outside of Torres Strait in Australia.

There was a great need for an indigenous women apos s health policy to complement the National Aboriginal Health Strategy, the major initiative in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.

In its previous concluding comments,1 the Committee encouraged the Government to collect statistical data on the participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in decision making, politics and administration and the judiciary (para.

Supporting agencies to align strategies that promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment with their broader strategies for achieving business outcomes through workforce planning and capability development

The noteworthy conclusions and recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and the consequent establishment of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Social Justice Commissioner are also welcomed.

On a question about the decrease of maternal and child mortality rates among the Aboriginal population, the representative stressed that the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples had significantly improved in the past two decades.

Strait of Gibraltar crossing

In its previous concluding comments, the Committee encouraged the Government to collect statistical data on the participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in the workforce (A 52 38 Rev.1, para.

Life expectancy estimates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians born in the period 1996 2001 indicate that life expectancy at birth is around 18 years lower than the average life expectancy for all Australians.

These population characteristics coupled with more general health risk factors, such as higher smoking rates and incidence of sexually transmitted infections, increase the risks for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women during childbirth.

516. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission which had just been set up consisted of 35 democratically elected regional councils and had a A 1 billion budget.

The Strait of Tiran and Tiran Island.

Europe Africa permanent link through the Strait of Gibraltar

Photo by Spear Torres. Used with permission.

Mr. Torres withdrew.

The title of the song combines the word for body in two of the languages. Marrin is the word for body in the Wiradjuri language of New South Wales, and Gamu is the word for body in the Kalaw Kawaw Ya language from the Torres Strait.