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Article: NSW: Cockatoo Island is toxic land, experts warn Aborigines
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- November 21, 2000
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AAP General News (Australia)
11-21-2000
NSW: Cockatoo Island is toxic land, experts warn Aborigines
Aboriginal activists who've occupied Cockatoo Island at the mouth of the Parramatta
River have been warned the land is toxic.
A spokesman for the Interim Sydney Harbour Federation Trust says tests show the island
is heavily polluted in some areas with toxic chemicals, among other things.
He also says there is effectively no safe water, no electricity ...