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Article: NSW: Cockatoo Island Aborigines win reprieve
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- December 29, 2000
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AAP General News (Australia)
12-29-2000
NSW: Cockatoo Island Aborigines win reprieve
SYDNEY, Dec 29 AAP - Aborigines who set up a tent embassy on a Sydney Harbour island
and were ordered to leave by a judge, have been granted a reprieve.
The group, who landed on Cockatoo Island last month, appealed against a finding last
week by Justice Robert Hulme in the New South Wales Supreme Court that they were trespassing
and had to leave by January 3.
Today in the NSW Court of Appeal Justice Margaret Beazley granted the group leave to
appeal and stayed Justice Hulme's order until February 12.
Spokeswoman for the group, Isabell Coe, said they were happy with the result and looked
forward to ...