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Palm Island, Queensland

Index Palm Island, Queensland

Palm Island is an Aboriginal community located on Great Palm Island, also called by the Aboriginal name "Bwgcolman", an island on the Great Barrier Reef in North Queensland, AustraliaBindloss, Joseph (2002) page 330 The settlement is also known by a variety of other names including "the Mission", Palm Island Settlement or Palm Community. [1]

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Aboriginal Shire of Palm Island

The Aboriginal Shire of Palm Island is a special local government area of Queensland, Australia, managed by the Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council under a Deed of Grant in Trust granted to the community on 27 October 1986.

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Aboriginal title

Aboriginal title is a common law doctrine that the land rights of indigenous peoples to customary tenure persist after the assumption of sovereignty under settler colonialism.

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Administrative Appeals Tribunal

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) is an Australian tribunal that conducts independent merits review of administrative decisions made under Commonwealth laws of the Australian Government.

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Alcohol abuse

Alcohol abuse is a previous psychiatric diagnosis in which there is recurring harmful use of alcohol despite its negative consequences.

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Anglican Church of Australia

The Anglican Church of Australia is a Christian church in Australia and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion.

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Aquaculture

Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture), also known as aquafarming, is the farming of fish, crustaceans, molluscs, aquatic plants, algae, and other organisms.

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Aurukun, Queensland

Aurukun is a town and locality in the Shire of Aurukun in Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Australian Aboriginal culture

Australian Aboriginal culture includes a number of practices and ceremonies centered on a belief in the Dreamtime.

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Australian Aboriginal English

Australian Aboriginal English (AAE) refers to a dialect of Australian English used by a large section of the Indigenous Australian population.

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Australian Aboriginal languages

The Australian Aboriginal languages consist of around 290–363 languages belonging to an estimated twenty-eight language families and isolates, spoken by Aboriginal Australians of mainland Australia and a few nearby islands.

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Australian Associated Press

Australian Associated Press (AAP) is an Australian news agency.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Australian Bureau of Statistics

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is the independent statistical agency of the Government of Australia.

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Australian Electoral Commission

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is the federal independent agency in charge of organising, conducting and supervising federal elections and referendums.

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Australian English

Australian English (AuE, en-AU) is a major variety of the English language, used throughout Australia.

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Australian federal election, 2004

Federal elections were held in Australia on 9 October 2004.

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Australian Human Rights Commission

The Australian Human Rights Commission is a national human rights institution, established in 1986 as the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and renamed in 2008.

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Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party (ALP, also Labor, was Labour before 1912) is a political party in Australia.

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Australian National University

The Australian National University (ANU) is a national research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia.

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Autopsy

An autopsy (post-mortem examination, obduction, necropsy, or autopsia cadaverum) is a highly specialized surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause and manner of death or to evaluate any disease or injury that may be present for research or educational purposes.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Beer

Beer is one of the oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic drinks in the world, and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea.

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Billy Doolan

Frederick William "Billy" Doolan Jnr (also known as Billy Doo, 1952-). Smh.com.au (2011-01-01).

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Box jellyfish

Box jellyfish (class Cubozoa) are cnidarian invertebrates distinguished by their cube-shaped medusae.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring.

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BP

BP plc (stylised as bp), formerly British Petroleum, is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.

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Butcher

A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat, or participate within any combination of these three tasks.

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Bwgcolman

The Bwgcolman (pronounced "Bwookamun") is the name recently given to the indigenous Australians who were deported from many areas of the Queensland mainland, and confined in resettlement on the Palm Island group after the establishment of a reserve there in 1918.

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Cairns

Cairns is a city in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership

The Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership is a public policy organisation formed in partnership between the people of Cape York, Griffith University, and Federal and Queensland Governments.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Cathy Freeman

Catherine Astrid Salome "Cathy" Freeman, (born 16 February 1973) is an Australian former sprinter, who specialised in the 400 metres event.

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Cathy O'Toole

Catherine Elizabeth O'Toole (born 30 August 1956) is an Australian politician.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Chief executive officer

Chief executive officer (CEO) is the position of the most senior corporate officer, executive, administrator, or other leader in charge of managing an organization especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution.

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Cleveland

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County.

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Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games are an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Community health

Community health is a major field of study within the medical and clinical sciences which focuses on the maintenance, protection, and improvement of the health status of population groups and communities.

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Consolidated PBY Catalina

The Consolidated PBY Catalina, also known as the Canso in Canadian service, is an American flying boat, and later an amphibious aircraft of the 1930s and 1940s produced by Consolidated Aircraft.

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Copper sulfate

Copper sulfate may refer to.

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Crayfish

Crayfish, also known as crawfish, crawdads, crawldads, freshwater lobsters, mountain lobsters, mudbugs or yabbies, are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters, to which they are related; taxonomically, they are members of the superfamilies Astacoidea and Parastacoidea.

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Criminology

Criminology (from Latin crīmen, "accusation" originally derived from the Ancient Greek verb "krino" "κρίνω", and Ancient Greek -λογία, -logy|-logia, from "logos" meaning: “word,” “reason,” or “plan”) is the scientific study of the nature, extent, management, causes, control, consequences, and prevention of criminal behavior, both on the individual and social levels.

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Culture

Culture is the social behavior and norms found in human societies.

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Cultured pearl

A cultured pearl is a pearl created by an oyster farmer under controlled conditions.

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Cyanobacteria

Cyanobacteria, also known as Cyanophyta, are a phylum of bacteria that obtain their energy through photosynthesis, and are the only photosynthetic prokaryotes able to produce oxygen.

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Cyclone

In meteorology, a cyclone is a large scale air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure.

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Cylindrospermopsin

Cylindrospermopsin (abbreviated to CYN, or CYL) is a cyanotoxin produced by a variety of freshwater cyanobacteria.

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Deed of Grant in Trust

A Deed of Grant in Trust (or DOGIT) is the name for a system of community-level land trust established in Queensland to administer former reserves and missions.

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Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships

The Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships is the department of the Queensland Government responsible for whole-of-government policy and service delivery for Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders.

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Director of Public Prosecutions

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is the office or official charged with the prosecution of criminal offences in several criminal jurisdictions around the world.

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Division of Herbert

The Division of Herbert is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland.

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Domestic violence

Domestic violence (also named domestic abuse or family violence) is violence or other abuse by one person against another in a domestic setting, such as in marriage or cohabitation.

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Dreamtime

Dreamtime (also dream time, dream-time) is a term devised by early anthropologists to refer to a religio-cultural worldview attributed to Australian Aboriginal beliefs.

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Drum circle

A drum circle is any group of people playing (usually) hand-drums and percussion in a circle.

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Electoral district of Townsville

Townsville is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.

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Emergency department

An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident & emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of patients who present without prior appointment; either by their own means or by that of an ambulance.

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Fantome Island

Fantome Island is one of the islands in the Great Palm Island group.

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Federal Court of Australia

The Federal Court of Australia is an Australian superior court of record which has jurisdiction to deal with most civil disputes governed by federal law (with the exception of family law matters), along with some summary (less serious) criminal matters.

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Fee simple

In English law, a fee simple or fee simple absolute is an estate in land, a form of freehold ownership.

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Ferry

A ferry is a merchant vessel used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water.

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First aid

First aid is the assistance given to any person suffering a sudden illness or injury, with care provided to preserve life, prevent the condition from worsening, or to promote recovery.

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First voyage of James Cook

The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS ''Endeavour'', from 1768 to 1771.

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Flying boat

A flying boat is a fixed-winged seaplane with a hull, allowing it to land on water, that usually has no type of landing gear to allow operation on land.

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Gasoline

Gasoline (American English), or petrol (British English), is a transparent, petroleum-derived liquid that is used primarily as a fuel in spark-ignited internal combustion engines.

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Government of Queensland

The Government of Queensland, also referred to as the Queensland Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of Queensland.

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Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over over an area of approximately.

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Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park protects a large part of Australia's Great Barrier Reef from damaging activities.

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Great Palm Island

Great Palm Island, also known as Palm Island, or by the Aboriginal name Bwgcolman;Bindloss, Joseph (2002) page 330 is a tropical island with a resident community of about 2,000 people.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Halifax Bay

Halifax Bay is a region located around a bay in the Coral Sea, situated on the Australian coast in Far North Queensland.

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Henry Reynolds (historian)

Henry Reynolds (born 1 March 1938) is an eminent Australian historian whose primary work has focused on the frontier conflict between European settlers in Australia and indigenous Australians.

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Hepatitis

Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver tissue.

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Hinchinbrook Island

Hinchinbrook Island (or Pouandai to the original Biyaygiri inhabitants) lies east of Cardwell and north of Lucinda, separated from the northern coast of Queensland, Australia by the narrow Hinchinbrook Channel.

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History of Australia (1788–1850)

The history of Australia from 1788–1850 covers the early colonial period of Australia's history, from the arrival in 1788 of the First Fleet of British ships at Sydney, New South Wales, who established the penal colony, the scientific exploration of the continent and later, establishment of other Australian colonies and the beginnings of representative democratic government.

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Hull River Aboriginal Settlement

Hull River Aboriginal Mission was an Aboriginal Mission established in the early 1900s, located at what is now referred to as Mission Beach in the Hull River National Park, Queensland, Australia.

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Hull River National Park

Hull River is a national park in Queensland (Australia), 1275 km northwest of Brisbane.

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Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

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Ingham, Queensland

Ingham is a town and locality in the Shire of Hinchinbrook, North Queensland, Australia.

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (7 November 1728Old style date: 27 October14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.

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James Cook University

James Cook University (JCU) is a public university and is the second oldest university in Queensland, Australia.

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Jeremy Geia

Murrumu Walubara Yidindji, also known by his former western name Jeremy Geia, is a Yidindji man, former journalist, and Australian Aboriginal activist.

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Jim Keeffe

James Bernard Keeffe (20 August 1919 – 15 May 1988) was an Australian politician.

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John Herron (Australian politician)

John Joseph Herron, (born 4 September 1932), Australian politician, ambassador and surgeon, was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1990 to 2002, representing Queensland.

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Judy Spence

Judith Caroline Spence (born 19 May 1957) is an Australian politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for the Australian Labor Party, from the 1989 election to 2012.

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Juice

Juice is a drink made from the extraction or pressing of the natural liquid contained in fruit and vegetables.

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Kerry O'Brien (journalist)

Kerry Michael O'Brien (born 27 August 1945) is an Australian journalist based in Byron Bay.

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Laurence Street

Commodore Sir Laurence Whistler Street, AC, KCMG, KStJ, QC (3 July 1926 – 21 June 2018) was an Australian jurist; formerly the fourteenth and second youngest Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales.

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Legislative Assembly of Queensland

The Legislative Assembly of Queensland is the sole chamber of the unicameral Parliament of Queensland.

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Leper colony

A leper colony, leprosarium, or lazar house is a place to quarantine people with leprosy (Hansen's disease).

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Life expectancy

Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, its current age and other demographic factors including gender.

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List of United States Navy aircraft squadrons

This is a list of United States Navy aircraft squadrons.

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Living Black

Living Black is a current affairs program aired on SBS, Australia, addressed primarily to the interests of Australia's indigenous community.

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Local government areas of Queensland

This is a list of local government areas (LGAs) in Queensland, sorted by region.

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Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet is the largest travel guide book publisher in the world.

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Lucinda, Queensland

Lucinda is a coastal town in the state of Queensland, Australia, located at the southern entrance to Hinchinbrook Channel near the town of Ingham.

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Lysis

Lysis (Greek λύσις lýsis, "a loosing" from λύειν lýein, "to unbind") refers to the breaking down of the membrane of a cell, often by viral, enzymic, or osmotic (that is, "lytic") mechanisms that compromise its integrity.

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Mackerel

Mackerel is a common name applied to a number of different species of pelagic fish, mostly, but not exclusively, from the family Scombridae.

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Mal Brough

Malcolm Thomas Brough (born 29 December 1961) is a former Australian politician who was the Liberal National member for the Division of Fisher in the Australian House of Representatives.

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Malnutrition

Malnutrition is a condition that results from eating a diet in which one or more nutrients are either not enough or are too much such that the diet causes health problems.

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Manbarra

The Manbarra, otherwise known as the Wulgurukaba, were an Indigenous Australian people, and the original inhabitants of Palm Island in Queensland.

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Manslaughter

Manslaughter is a common law legal term for homicide considered by law as less culpable than murder.

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Mental health

Mental health is a level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental illness.

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Mick Dodson

Michael James "Mick" Dodson (born 10 April 1950, in Katherine, Northern Territory) is an Aboriginal Australian barrister, academic, and member of the Yawuru peoples in the Broome area of the southern Kimberley region of Western Australia.

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Milne Bay

Milne Bay is a large bay in Milne Bay Province, south-eastern Papua New Guinea.

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Miscegenation

Miscegenation (from the Latin miscere "to mix" + genus "kind") is the mixing of different racial groups through marriage, cohabitation, sexual relations, or procreation.

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Mission Beach, Queensland

Mission Beach is a small town and locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Murri people

The Murri are the Indigenous Australians of modern-day Queensland and north-west New South Wales.

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Naval air station

A naval air station is a military air base, and consists of a permanent land-based operations locations for the military aviation division of the relevant branch of a navy (Naval aviation).

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News leak

A news leak is the unsanctioned release of confidential information to news media.

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Nine News

Nine News is the national news service of the Nine Network in Australia.

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Noel Pearson

Noel Pearson (born 25 June 1965) is an Aboriginal Australian lawyer, academic, land rights activist and founder of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership, an organisation promoting the economic and social development of Cape York.

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North Queensland

North Queensland or the Northern Region is the northern part of the Australian state of Queensland that lies just south of Far North Queensland.

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Obstetrics

Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.

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Orpheus Island National Park

Orpheus Island is a national park in North Queensland, Australia, northwest of Brisbane, as is Pelorus Island 800 metres to the north.

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Oyster

Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats.

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Palm Island Airport

Palm Island Airport is an airport in Palm Island, on Great Palm Island, Queensland, Australia.

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Palm Island Mens Group

The Palm Island Men's Group was set up to deal with social problems, particularly for young Aboriginal men in trouble.

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Palm Island mystery disease

In 1979 an outbreak of hepatoenteritis, also known as the Palm Island mystery disease, was reported and described a hepatitis-like illness (associated in many cases with dehydration and bloody diarrhoea) in 148 people (138 children and 10 adults) of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent in Palm Island, Queensland.

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Paul Wilson (criminologist)

Paul Richard Wilson (born 9 March 1941) is a New Zealand-born, prolific Australian social scientist and scholar, who has made a leading contribution to the forensic investigation of criminological issues, Australian policing and the Australian criminal justice system.

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Pearl hunting

Pearl hunting is the act of recovering pearls from wild mollusks, usually oysters or mussels, in the sea or fresh water.

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Pelorus Island

Pelorus Island is the northernmost island of the Great Palm Island group.

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Penal colony

A penal colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory.

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Perth

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia.

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Peter Beattie

Peter Douglas Beattie (born 18 November 1952) is a former Australian politician who served as the 36th Premier of Queensland, in office from 1998 to 2007.

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Pharmacy

Pharmacy is the science and technique of preparing and dispensing drugs.

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PM (Australian radio program)

PM is one of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's flagship current-affairs radio programs, and is one of Australia's longest-running productions.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Port Moresby

(Tok Pisin: Pot Mosbi), also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea and the largest city in the South Pacific outside of Australia and New Zealand.

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Prawn

Prawn is a common name for small aquatic crustaceans with an exoskeleton and ten legs (i.e. a member of the order decapoda), some of which can be eaten.

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Premier of Queensland

The Premier of Queensland is the head of government in the Australian state of Queensland.

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Protector of Aborigines

The office of the Protector of Aborigines was established pursuant to a recommendation contained in the Report of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Aboriginal Tribes, (British settlements.) of the House of Commons.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.

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Pub

A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.

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Public and private education in Australia

Education in Australia can be classified according to sources of funding and administrative structures.

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Queen's Baton Relay

The Queen's Baton Relay is a relay around the world held prior to the beginning of the Commonwealth Games.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Queensland Ambulance Service

The Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) is the chief provider of out-of-hospital emergency care and ambulance transport in the state of Queensland, Australia.

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Queensland Health

Queensland Health is a department of the Government of Queensland which operates and administers the state's public health system.

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Queensland Police Service

The Queensland Police Service (QPS) is the principal law enforcement agency responsible for policing the Australian state of Queensland.

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Queensland state election, 2006

An election was held in the Australian state of Queensland on 9 September 2006 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly, after being announced by Premier Peter Beattie on 15 August 2006.

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Queensland State High Schools

Queensland State High Schools cater for Years 7 to 12 (or some smaller range within this).

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Queensland State Schools

Queensland State Schools are schools that are part of the Queensland, Australia.

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Rainbow Serpent

The Rainbow Serpent or Rainbow Snake is a common deity (also known as Wagyl, Wuagyl, etc.) often seen as a creator god and a common motif in the art and religion of Aboriginal Australia.

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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Ringling Bros.

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Riot

A riot is a form of civil disorder commonly characterized by a group lashing out in a violent public disturbance against authority, property or people.

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Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) (1987–1991) was a Royal Commission appointed by the Australian Government in October 1987 to study and report upon the underlying social, cultural and legal issues behind the deaths in custody of Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders, in the light of the high level of such deaths.

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Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia

The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (RFDS, informally known as The Flying Doctor) is one of the largest and most comprehensive aeromedical organisations in the world.

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Samarai

Samarai is an island and former administrative capital in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea.

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Scott Stewart (politician)

Scott James Stewart is an Australian politician.

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Sea cucumber

Sea cucumbers are echinoderms from the class Holothuroidea.

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Search and rescue

Search and rescue (SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger.

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Sewage treatment

Sewage treatment is the process of removing contaminants from wastewater, primarily from household sewage.

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Sexual abuse

Sexual abuse, also referred to as molestation, is usually undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another.

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Sexually transmitted infection

Sexually transmitted infections (STI), also referred to as sexually transmitted diseases (STD) or venereal diseases (VD), are infections that are commonly spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex and oral sex.

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Shire of Johnstone

The Shire of Johnstone was a local government area of Queensland.

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Shrimp

The term shrimp is used to refer to some decapod crustaceans, although the exact animals covered can vary.

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Skytrans Airlines

Skytrans Airlines is a Queensland owned and operated airline and air charter business based in Cairns.

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Slingshot

A slingshot or catapult (UK), ging (primarily Australian and New Zealand), shanghai (Australian), kettie (South Africa), is normally a small hand-powered projectile weapon.

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Sly-grog shop

A sly grog shop (or shanty) is an Australian term for an unlicensed hotel or liquor-store, often with the added suggestion of selling poor-quality liquor; a place where alcoholic beverages are sold by an unlicensed vendor.

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Solomon Dam

One of the three man-made bodies of fresh water on Palm Island, Queensland.

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State Library of Queensland

The State Library of Queensland is the main reference and research library provided to the people of the State of Queensland, Australia, by the state government.

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Stateline (TV program)

Stateline was a television current affairs program produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Steffen Lehmann

Steffen Lehmann is a German-born architect and urban designer, born 19 June 1963 in Stuttgart, Germany.

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Strike action

Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.

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Substance abuse

Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, is a patterned use of a drug in which the user consumes the substance in amounts or with methods which are harmful to themselves or others, and is a form of substance-related disorder.

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Sunferries

Sunferries was a ferry company based in Townsville, Queensland.

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Superintendent (police)

Superintendent (Supt), often shortened to "super", is a rank in British police services and in most English-speaking Commonwealth nations.

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Supreme Court of New South Wales

The Supreme Court of New South Wales is the highest state court of the Australian State of New South Wales.

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Technical and further education

In Australia, technical and further education or TAFE institutions provide a wide range of predominantly vocational courses, mostly qualifying courses under the National Training System/Australian Qualifications Framework/Australian Quality Training Framework.

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The 7.30 Report

The 7.30 Report is an Australian week-nightly television current affairs program, that was shown on ABC1 and ABC News 24 at from 1986 to 2011.

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The Australian

The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964.

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The Brisbane Institute

The Brisbane Institute was an independent think tank based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, founded in 1999.

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The Courier-Mail

The Courier-Mail is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia.

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The Monthly

The Monthly is an Australian national magazine of politics, society and the arts, which is published eleven times per year on a monthly basis except the December/January issue.

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The Northern Standard

The Northern Standard, also known by the uniform title Northern standard (Darwin, N.T.), was a newspaper published in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, from 1920 or 1921 to 1955.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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Third World

The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Communist Bloc.

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Title (property)

In property law, a title is a bundle of rights in a piece of property in which a party may own either a legal interest or equitable interest.

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Tony Fitzgerald

Gerald Edward "Tony" Fitzgerald (born 26 November 1941) is a former Australian judge, who presided over the Fitzgerald Inquiry.

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Torres Strait Islanders

Torres Strait Islanders are the indigenous people of the Torres Strait Islands, part of Queensland, Australia.

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Townsville

Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia.

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Townsville Bulletin

The Townsville Bulletin is a daily newspaper published in Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

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Townsville Hospital

The Townsville Hospital is a public tertiary care hospital in Douglas, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

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Trial of Lex Wotton

The trial of Lex Wotton relates to the events surrounding the Townsville, Queensland proceedings in the Federal Magistrates Court concerning the actions taken by Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council member Wotton during the 26 November 2004 Palm Island riots.

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Trust law

A trust is a three-party fiduciary relationship in which the first party, the trustor or settlor, transfers ("settles") a property (often but not necessarily a sum of money) upon the second party (the trustee) for the benefit of the third party, the beneficiary.

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Unemployment

Unemployment is the situation of actively looking for employment but not being currently employed.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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USS Barataria (AVP-33)

The second USS Barataria (AVP-33) was a United States Navy ''Barnegat''-class seaplane tender in commission from 1944 to 1946.

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Warren Pitt

Frederick Warren Pitt (born 14 March 1948) is an Australian politician.

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Western culture

Western culture, sometimes equated with Western civilization, Occidental culture, the Western world, Western society, European civilization,is a term used very broadly to refer to a heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems and specific artifacts and technologies that have some origin or association with Europe.

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X-ray

X-rays make up X-radiation, a form of electromagnetic radiation.

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Yarrabah, Queensland

Yarrabah, traditionally Yagaljida in the Yidin language spoken by the indigenous Yidinji people, is an Aboriginal community about by road from Cairns CBD on Cape Grafton.

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2004 Palm Island death in custody

The 2004 Palm Island death in custody incident relates to the death of Palm Island, Queensland resident, Cameron Doomadgee (tribal name: Mulrunji) on Friday, 19 November 2004 in a police cell.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Island,_Queensland

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