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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
SYDNEY, Nov 21 AAP - Aboriginal activists occupying Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour
were today warned the land was toxic.
A spokesman for the Interim Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, which had done preliminarily
tests for pollution on the island, said it was heavily polluted in some areas with toxic
chemicals, amongst other things.
He also said there was effectively no safe water, no electricity or sewerage.
"We visited the island today to tell the Aborigines, out of courtesy, about the toxicity
of the land," said the spokesman.
"The land is basically a disused industrial area and ...