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Article: NSW: Aborigines reclaim 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 reclaim Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour
SYDNEY, Nov 20 AAP - A group of Aborigines say they have reclaimed the deserted Cockatoo
Island at the mouth of Sydney's Parramatta River.
Aboriginal activist Isabell Coe said a group of ten Aborigines, including herself,
had moved onto the island, near Iron Cove Bridge in Drummoyne, this afternoon.
"We will stay here indefinitely," said Ms Coe.
"The people who have taken this island from us have desecrated, destroyed and deserted
it and we are claiming it back."
She said the Aborigines were claiming it under the term "Terra Nullius", which means
empty land, and which she said was the ...