How native title holders won their fight to save a sacred site on a Torres Strait island
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Enid Tom and Milton Savage at the foot of the hillside on Muralug/Prince of Wales Island.
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For the Kaurareg people of the Torres Strait this isn t just a hillside. It s sacred ground.
The site is central to the creation story of Muralug (also known as Prince of Wales Island).
In its red soil they see the spilled blood of the warrior-giant Waubin.
His body and the bodies of his wives are represented in rocks that can be seen off another island when the tide is low.