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Article: NSW: Aborigines re claim Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- November 20, 2000
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AAP General News (Australia)
11-20-2000
NSW: Aborigines re claim Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour
A group of Aborigines say they've re-claimed the deserted Cockatoo Island at the mouth
of the Parramatta River.
Aboriginal activist ISABELL COE says a group of ten Aborigines, including herself,
moved onto the island near Iron Cove Bridge this afternoon.
Ms COE says the Aborigines are claiming it under the term Terranullis, which means
empty land, and which she says is the term under which the early Europeans settlers claimed
Australia.
She says the island had been the scene of genocide after the ...