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Research

Occasional Paper 17

Growing up in the Torres Strait region: A report from the Footprints in Time trials

Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health in collaboration with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. November 2006

This paper documents the experiences of growing up in the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula area using the stories and photos of local people. The stories were collected during the trial phase of Footprints in Time-The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children in 2005.