Tagai High School, 3
Tagai State College
and environmental education officer, 101
and horticulture in schools programme, x, 162
and ‘Junior Ranger’ project, 3
and natural resource management engagement, 62
and Torres Strait Language Symposium, 6
telecommunications infrastructure, xiv
Telstra
mobile network expansion project, 161
voice and data communications strategy for the Torres Strait area, xiv
Thursday Island, 120
and Ensuring a Strait Start project, 110
Ken Brown Oval and TI stadium gym, 100
tidal gauge, 26
Thursday Island Water Sports Club, 107
tidal flow power generation, xiii
tidal gauge project, 26
Tipoti, Alick, 38
tidal inundation, xv
Torres, Luis Vaez de, 121
Torres Shire Council
and Horn Island Affordable Housing Project, 103
and Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area Regional Plan, 17
Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area Regional Plan 2009 - 2029, x–xi, 17, 74, 122, 157
service delivery, 124
Torres Strait Climate Change Strategy 2014 - 2018, 157
Torres Strait Coastal Management Committee
members, 157
review by MLCS Corporate, 4
Torres Strait Development Plan 2009 - 2013, 122
and Regional Plan, 122
Torres Strait Development Plan 2014 - 2018, 10, 74, 132
and programme outcomes, 4, 9, 13, 17, 153, 157
and Regional Plan, 122
and Workforce Strategy, 167
Torres Strait Development Plan Outcomes
Culture, Art and Heritage Programme, 31
Economic Development Programme, 41
Environmental Management Programme, 61
Fisheries Programme, 49
Governance and Leadership Programme, 71
Healthy Communities Programme, 99
Native Title Programme, 81
Safe Communities Programme, 109
Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984, xv
Torres Strait Fisheries Working Group, 82
Torres Strait freehold, xiv
Torres Strait Health Partnership, 98
Torres Strait IPA project, 68
Torres Strait Island Regional Council (TSIRC)
and healthy communities workshops, 102
and infrastructure upgrades, 111
and Major Infrastructure Indigenous Land Use Agreement, 82
and regional pest management strategy, 62
and Remote Indigenous Broadcasting Service stations, xiii
and rising sea levels, xv
and Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area Regional Plan, 17
and waste and landfill renovation issues, 100
water and waste management programme, 101
water testing project, 102
Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal owned commercially viable businesses, 20
Torres Strait Islander Land Act 1991 (Qld), 90
Torres Strait Islanders, 120
Torres Strait Islanders Media Association (TSIMA)
and broadcasting targets, 73
and Remote Indigenous Broadcasting Service stations, xiii
Torres Strait Islanders’ Regional Education Council (TSIREC), 110
Torres Strait language centre, 33, 34
Torres Strait language charter, 33
Torres Strait Language Reference Group, 33
Torres Strait language strategy, 33
Torres Strait Language Symposium, 6, 33, 34
Torres Strait Marine Safety Programme, 3, 110
and school-based maritime safety education project, 113
Torres Strait Maritime Pathways Project, viii–ix
case study, 46–47
and employment opportunities, 3
and training, 21, 42
Torres Strait region, 120
culture see Ailan Kastom
history, 121
map of, iv–v, 120
statistics, 126–30
education, 128–29
employment, 128
health, 130
housing tenure, 130
income, 129
population, 126–27
Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA)
and Aurora Foundation, 25
and Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 25
briefings and information, 135
challenges, xiv–xv
corporate governance and accountability, 137–71
and Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, 25
enabling legislation, 132
financial reports, 173–220
financial statements, 177–220
formation, 132
functions, 133
highlights and achievements, vii–xi
judicial decisions and reviews, 135
and Koeygab Pabai, 47
ministerial directions, 134
role as Native Title Representative Body, 92, 132
see also Native Title Representative Body in the Torres Strait
and Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations, 25
opportunities, xiii–xiv
organisational structure, 224
outlook, 13
powers, 134
and PBCs, 25
PBCs capacity-building grants, 92
programmes, 132
performance, 15–117
report of operations, 119–35
responsible minister, 134
and Sea Forum Summits, 90–91
Statement of Expectations, 135
Statement of Intent, 135
strategic overview, 1–13
vision, iii
Torres Strait Regional Authority Women’s Leadership Programme, 11
Torres Strait Regional Economic Investment Strategy, 42
Torres Strait Regional Sea Claim, 83
Part A, 5, 12, 81, 82, 91
Part B, 5, 82, 91
Torres Strait Treaty, 7
Torres Strait Treaty Cycle meetings, 7
Torres Strait Women’s Leadership Programme, vii, 73, 74
Torres Strait Young Leaders Programme, 11, 74
Torres Strait Youth and Recreational Sporting Association, 100, 106–7
traditional ecological knowledge project, 35, 62
Traditional Inhabitant Boat licence fishers, xv, 7, 50
Traditional Inhabitants Meeting, 7
training and development, 95
Training Rural Australians in Leadership, 11, 72, 74
Transferable Vessel Holder licence fishers, 6, 7
transport industry Supply Chain and Logistics annual awards, 47
Transport Infrastructure Development Scheme, 3, 26, 111
TRAWQ (Tamwoy, Rosehill, Aplin, Waiben and Quarantine), 4
tropical rock lobster fishery, vii, 21
Tropical Rock Lobster Management Plan, 7
TSRA Cultural Protocols Guide for TSRA Staff, 12, 32
TSRA Enterprise Agreement 2011 - 2014, 95, 167
turtle management, vii, 24, 63