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Article: NSW: Cockatoo island gets new lease on life

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August 18, 2005
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AAP General News (Australia)
08-18-2005
NSW: Cockatoo island gets new lease on life

Sydney Harbour's largest island is coming out of retirement.

Cockatoo Island, once a convict prison, a reformatory girls school and more recently
shipping dockyards, has been unemployed for more than a decade.

But the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust is now ...

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