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...other part of Australia's frontier is as closely watched by authorities as the Torres Strait, a shallow sea spanning the 150 km from the tip of Cape York to the coast of Papua New Guinea and flanked by the Coral Sea to the east and the Arafura Sea to the west. Scattered across the Strait like stepping stones are 138 islands, only 17 of which are inhabited. This region, many of whose 8,000 Australian residents follow traditional indigenous lifestyles, seems a tranquil tropical idyll. But for professional border-watchers - officials of the Australian Customs Service, Federal Police, Quarantine...
...Isolated though it is, the Strait is alive with activity: there are container vessels, fishing trawlers, supply barges, pleasure yachts and the small craft of Torres Strait Islanders and visiting Papua New Guineans. Among them are the boats of people trying to exploit cracks in the system to fish illegally and traffic in drugs, firearms and people. Starting on Thursday Island, the region's administrative hub, Time tags along with marine and land-based Customs officers to find out exactly what border protection means in this key outpost. "It's busy - or it's busier," says Steve Jeffs, Customs' Torres...
...them) or burned at sea if they're not seaworthy. "They've started coming further down into our fishing zone, even deep into the Gulf of Carpentaria," says Cummins. "In some ways, the Indonesians are fortunate that we apprehend them. If they washed up on a beach in the Strait, the Torres Strait Islanders would not be as understanding...
AUSTRALIAN JOURNEYS On the Offbeat Track Mission: Patrol At sea with the border watchers of Torres Strait The Gift of Prayer Behind the walls of a Carmelite monastery Speaking Stones Digging into the ancient past at Riversleigh Travelers' Rest A roadhouse oasis in the remote Northern Territory Wet and Wondrous Rafting the wild reaches of the Franklin River The Gospel Run Taking the church to the people of the Outback Press Gang Getting the nation's news out at the Australian Super Bowl Inside the myth-filled Wolfe Creek meteorite crater Unseen Gladiators Keeping the Melbourne Cricket Ground alive Hands...
...unclear exactly when it happened, but sometime in the past decade it became acceptable for country music--loving tough guys to shed the occasional manly tear. Now Nashville's big guns want buckets. For those who gulped their way through George Strait's Desperately and sat stoically by as Alan Jackson asked Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning), McGraw has composed the toughest test to date: call it Tuesdays with Morrie, the ballad. McGraw wrote this elegy following the death of his father, charismatic ex-Big League pitcher Tug McGraw, from cancer in January. Lyrically, it's shameless...