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Acronym	Meaning
ABS	Australian Bureau of Statistics
AGLN-Q	Australian Government Leadership Network - Queensland
AGM	Annual General Meeting
AIATSIS	Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
AIMS	Australian Institute of Marine Science
AMSA	Australian Maritime Safety Authority
ANAO	Australian National Audit Office
APS	Australian Public Service
ARLP	Australian Rural Leadership Program
ATSI	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
AWA	Australian Workplace Agreement
CDEP	Community Development Employment Projects
CEO	Chief Executive Officer
COAG	Council of Australian Governments
CSIRO	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Cth	Commonwealth
DATSIMA	Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Multicultural Affairs
DLGCRR	Queensland Department of Local Government, Community Recovery and Resilience
DOGIT	Deed(s) of Grant In Trust
EAP	Employee Assistance Program
EEO	Equal Employment Opportunity
EPBC	Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation
ESD	Ecologically Sustainable Development
FOI	freedom of information
GTCC	Gab Titui Cultural Centre
HIAHP	Horn Island Affordable Housing Project
IBA	Indigenous Business Australia
ICT	information communications technology
IFAC	Indigenous Fisheries Advisory Committee
ILUA	Indigenous Land Use Agreement
IPA	Indigenous Protected Area
ISD	Integrated Service Delivery
ISO	International Standards Organisation
JCU	James Cook University
LSMU	Land and Sea Management Unit
MIP	Major Infrastructure Programme
MOU	Memorandum of Understanding
NERP	National Environmental Research Programme
NGO	non-government organisation
NNTT	National Native Title Tribunal
NPARC	Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council
NRM	natural resource management
NTO	Native Title Office
NTRB	Native Title Representative Body
PBC	Prescribed Body Corporate
PGPA	Public Governance, Performance and Accountability
NPM&C	Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
PNG	Papua New Guinea
PSC	Programme Steering Committee
PZJA	Protected Zone Joint Authority
NRIBS	Remote Indigenous Broadcasting Service
RJCP	Remote Jobs and Communities Programme
RNTBC	Registered Native Title Body Corporate
SC	Senior Counsel
TAFE	Technical and Further Education
TEK	Traditional Ecological Knowledge
TIB	Traditional Inhabitant Boat
TIDS	Transport Infrastructure Development Scheme
TRAIL	Training Rural Australians in Leadership
TRAWQ	Tamwoy, Rosehill, Aplin, Waiben and Quarantine
TSC	Torres Shire Council
TSCMC	Torres Strait Coastal Management Committee
TSI	Torres Strait Islander
TSIMA	Torres Strait Islanders Media Association
TSIRC	Torres Strait Island Regional Council
TSRA	Torres Strait Regional Authority
TSYLS	Torres Strait Youth Leadership Scholarship
TSYRSA	Torres Strait Youth and Recreation Sporting Association

a photograph of Gab Titui Cultural Centre Staff at the National Museum