AAP General News (Australia)
12-29-2000
NSW: Cockatoo Island Aborigines win reprieve
Aborigines who set up a tent embassy on a Sydney Harbour island and were ordered to
leave by a judge have been given a reprieve.
The group, who landed on Cockatoo Island last month, appealed against last week's finding
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, holding back the eviction order until February 12.
Group spokeswoman ISABELL COE says it's a major victory and they're looking forward
to putting their case to a full appeal hearing.
Last week Justice HULME found the commonwealth owned Cockatoo Island and that the Aborigines
were trespassing.
The Aborigines reject the commonwealth's sovereignty over the island, claiming that
when CAPTAIN COOK claimed Australia he didn't specify the islands of Sydney Harbour.
AAP RTV gl/evt
KEYWORD: COCKATOO (SYDNEY)
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