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A series of full-page open letters on Torres Strait autonomy signed by Kevin Savage, Thursday Island, has been appearing in the regional newspaper since mid-2003. These quietly thoughtful essays ask the Torres Strait public to think carefully about identity issues, aspirations, and the roles and rights of citizenship ahead of 2004 regional elections, given the undecided political status of the region's twenty or so Islander communities.
Small island communities like Torres Strait provide most of the work of the United Nations 'decolonisation' committee today. The letters draw usefully on the UN committee's principles and standards, and note that the UN process has seen 750 million colonised people reduced to a mere two million. While the letters say matter-of-factly that current boundaries, whether ethno-cultural, economic, resource user, or jurisdictional, may require realignment, and that current state and administration arrangements...
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