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Marty Silk

Premier acts on Torres Strait cost-of-living summit

The Torres Strait cost-of-living summit will be held on Thursday Island on March 20. (Aaron Bunch/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

The Queensland government will hold a cost-of-living summit in the Torres Strait Islands and northern Cape York next month to work out how to address the soaring food and transport prices in the region.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk originally pledged to convene the summit in September, but it has been delayed by events in the remote archipelago on the Papua New Guinea border, which is home to 4120 mostly Indigenous residents.

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