 My name is Leilani Binjuta. I'm from the Torres Strait. Binjuta originates from Indonesia. Our great-grandfather came across as part of the purling and fishing industry and he married a local lady from here. My Christian name, Leilani, was given to me from my mother's mother who wanted to maintain our links to the Pacific because we also have no way in blood and my father who was a betting man named me after a horse in 1974 at the Corfield Cup that then won the Melbourne Cup so I'm named after a racehorse. I grew up in Cairns and then went to university in Rockhampton. Ten years ago I took up the opportunity to work with foreign affairs and trade. The Torres Strait Treaty which is an agreement between Australia and Papua New Guinea and it encapsulates the traditional rights and custody rights of traditional inhabitants. For the western province coastal villages there are 13 and in the Torres Strait there are 14 communities that fall within the treaty zone or the Torres Strait protected zone and so I'm working with traditional inhabitants on both sides of the border to maintain that level of security and safety we once enjoyed. The Torres Strait Treaty Liaison Office we actually have nine agencies that help implement the treaty on ground that's both federal state and local government so there's a multitude of agencies that help us draw together and coordinate the issues under the treaty and that is we cover immigration, border protection, fisheries, the environment, health and traditional inhabitant issues. The most important ingredient to everything that we do under the treaty is the liaison and discussions that we have with traditional inhabitants on both sides of the border because at the end of the day the treaty works because traditional inhabitants make it work. The connections between Australia and Papua New Guinea or the Torres Strait and western province in particular expands thousands of years, six thousand years plus. It's evolved and it has come to to be a modern day experience if you like for traditional inhabitants. Right in the thick of it we live it and breathe it every day.