61. Inquiry Into Australia's Relations With Papua New Guinea And The Island States O New Zealand’s colonial history in the Pacific. Fiji, the Solomon Islands and PapuaNew guinea 22–31 Appendix 4 regional map of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/fadt_ctte/png/report/

Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee: A Pacific engaged Australia’s relations with Papua New Guinea and the island states of the south–west Pacific 12 August 2003 © Commonwealth of Australia 2003 ISBN 642 71286 7 CONTENTS Members of the Committee ( PDF format Word format Recommendations PDF format Word format Chapter 1—Introduction: Pacific economic and political community Chapter 2—Economic and social overview Chapter 3—Australia’s economic relations with the region Non–tariff barriers to trade Australia’s promotion of economic self–sufficiency The development of the tourism industry Labour mobility Chapter 4—Australia’s development assistance to the region Australia’s support for good governance Relevance of development programs PNG Incentive Fund Crisis driven aid Rural development Institutional strengthening—law and justice sectors Institutional strengthening—public service Institutional strengthening—parliaments The role of women in development The future direction of aid Chapter 6—Australia’s Political relations with the region The absence of the Prime Minister at regional meetings Other Ministers and Members of Parliament ‘Pacific Strategy’ Chapter 7—Security and transnational organised crime

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[Country Listing] The World Factbook Home] Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau Introduction [Top of Page] Background: In 1994, 20 years after independence from Portugal, the country's first multiparty legislative and presidential elections were held. An army uprising that triggered a bloody civil war in 1998, created hundreds of thousands of displaced persons. The president was ousted by a military junta in May 1999. An interim government turned over power in February 2000 when opposition leader Koumba YALLA took office following two rounds of transparent presidential elections. Guinea-Bissau's transition back to democracy will be complicated by a crippled economy devastated by civil war and the military's predilection for governmental meddling. Geography [Top of Page] Location: Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea and Senegal Geographic coordinates: 12 00 N, 15 00 W Map references: Africa Area: total: 36,120 sq km land: 28,000 sq km water: 8,120 sq km Area - comparative: slightly less than three times the size of Connecticut Land boundaries: total: 724 km border countries: Guinea 386 km, Senegal 338 km

80. Wongai - History Contact history. large numbers of Islanders from the Torres Strait region and various Straitabove latitude 10° South to an independent Papua New guinea. http://wongai.qld.edu.au/html/history.htm

History Contact History The Torres Strait was named after the Spanish adventurer Luis Baez de Torres who visited the area in 1606. Prior to Torres' voyage there were indications of Islander contacts with people from the nearby Asian region. In I770 the Englishman James Cook claimed Australia for the British. Contact between Europeans and Torres Strait Islanders was infrequent between I770 and the 1840s. When contact did occur it was sometimes cordial and sometimes violent. Contact between Europeans and Torres Strait Islanders was put on a more or less permanent looting through Beche-de-mer fishing and pearl shelling which began in the 1860s. The establishment of both these industries was accompanied by forced labour, violence and abductions. In 187I the London Missionary Society (LMS), using teachers from the Loyalty Islands in New Caledonia, set up operations on Darnley and Dauan Islands. The LMS's operations gradually expanded to include the other Torres Strait Islands. The settlement of Thursday Island was founded in I876 and in I879 an Act of the Queensland colonial Parliament made the Torres Strait Islands part of Queensland.

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