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	Belconnen Community
		Canberra’s population was 143,600 and the population of Belconnen was 19,900.
		Canberra’s population was 201,800 and the population of Belconnen was 58,800.
		Canberra’s population was 226,400 and the population of Belconnen was 76,300.
	www.belconnen.org.au /belhist.htm (5644 words)

	remand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Related phrases: adelaide remand centre ashford remand centre hobart remand centre launceston remand centre prisoner on remand melbourne remand centre belconnen remand centre remand prisoner
		Usually it is an appellate court that remands a case for proceedings in the trial court consistent with the appellate court's ruling.
		Remand court is the court in which trial dates are set for criminal cases.
	www.vocamania.com /remand.aspx (631 words)

	Belconnen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Belconnen is a district of Canberra, the Capital city of Australia, comprising 25 suburbs with 29,900 dwellings housing 82,247 people of the 311,518 people in the Australian Capital Territory (June 2001 Census).
		Belconnen consists of 25 suburbs, the majority of which are predominantly characterised by detached single family homes on suburban blocks.
		Belconnen is situated south of the Barton Highway which leads to Yass, where it connects with the Hume Highway to Sydney and Melbourne.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belconnen (1104 words)

	Corrective Services Academy: Highlights
		The average daily occupancy rate at the Belconnen Remand Centre in 2003/03 was 68 persons, of whom 4% were female and 11% were Indigenous people.
		The Alice Springs Correctional Centre is the Territory’s principal maximum-security facility. It accommodates both men and women of all security ratings, with a capacity of 316 in the main complex and an addition 84 in low security cottages.
		The central issues relating to the inmate population in South Australia are the growth in the remand population and the increasing numbers of prisoners received into custody who are indigenous or who have mental health problems.
	www.csa.nsw.gov.au /Austcorrect.htm (6223 words)

	Freedom Ride in Canberra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fire is at the centre of the Tent Embassy.
		We went searching for the Belconnen Remand Centre and it was next to invisible a roller door in an unsigned Besser brick wall, the continuation of the Belconnen Police Station.
		The Drug War and the heroin plague have stretched the resources of the Remand Centre and it is over crowded like it never used to be or was planned to be.
	www.peacebus.com /freedomride/canberra.html (3639 words)

	Canglish - A - B
		Belconnen Community Centre in Swanson Court, Belconnen is a tacky theatre which presents various amateur performances.
		The Benjamin Club at Level 1, Belconnen Churches Centre, Benjamin Way, Belconnen is a place heavily patronised by the pubes from Immigration who occupy the Benjamin offices just a walk away.
		Belconnen Remand Centre, formed through the contraction of the acronym, BRC pronounced B-RAH-S. This is an alternative accommodation unit for the homeless and the insane.
	canglish.tripod.com /canglisha2b.htm (7623 words)

	Newsletter 15, March 1998 - People's Justice Alliance
		Federation of Community Legal centres threatens legal action against the Government and each private prison corporation for failure to uphold their duty of care owed to prisoners and failing to implement the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody by not removing obvious structural hanging points.
		This is also the case at the Metropolitan Womens' Correctional Centre and is the result of the "War on Drugs" this and previous governments have brutally waged within prisons where there is no room for harm minimisation practices such as needle exchanges, bleach, condoms, detoxification units and an expanded methadone program.
		The proposal involves closing Belconnen Remand Centre and contracting out the construction and management of the $25 million jail to the private sector or a State Government.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~pjan/news/pja15004.htm (5123 words)

	Smyth demands jail explanation » ABC Canberra » Local News
		The ACT Opposition is demanding the Government explain why a person on remand was held interstate while there was still room at the Belconnen Remand Centre.
		Opposition leader Brendan Smyth says if the Belconnen Remand Centre (BRC) was not able to accomodate the remandee it must be urgently upgraded.
		"We have to have an answer from the Government as to why the BRC and the temporary remand centre aren't being used if they're not at capacity," he said.
	www.abc.net.au /act/news/200404/s1089189.htm (168 words)

	OCA – Adults (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The OCA visits the Belconnen Remand Centre on a weekly basis.
		The purpose of the visits is to review with Belconnen Remand Centre staff the circumstances of our clients who are on remand.
		We aim to ensure that our clients are receiving appropriate treatment for any illness and that the nature of the custody is appropriate.
	www.oca.act.gov.au /adults/forensic/forensic_visits.html (90 words)

	City News Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		AS well as housing ACT prisoners, the proposed Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC) will also replace Canberra’s two sub-standard remand centres at Belconnen and Symonston.
		The AMC — which will be designed to take a rehabilitative approach and work towards positive end-results for remandees — is still facing criticism from the ACT Opposition regarding its necessity, cost and the impact on Monaro Highway traffic.
		Chief Minister Jon Stanhope said that the operating costs of the AMC would be comparable to the current cost of having ACT prisoners incarcerated in NSW facilities ($8.2 million in 2004-05), combined with the cost of these two remand centres ($11.2 million).
	www.citynews.com.au /news/Article.asp?id=4640 (225 words)

	Green Left - Fight back against ACT budget cuts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Kippax Community Task Force has vowed to defend the Kippax health centre, one of two community health centre's in Belconnen that have come under the axe.
		Meanwhile, CPSU members picketing the Belconnen Remand Centre (BRC) were attacked by police escorting scabs into the centre on September 27.
		CPSU members at the remand centre had walked off the job and begun the picket over budget cuts and staff freezes.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1995/205/11088 (860 words)

	Remand centre living conditions under scrutiny - National - BigPond News
		The Belconnen Remand Centre in Canberra is being audited to assess whether the detainees have adequate living conditions.
		Staff shortages at the remand centre have prompted more lock-downs, which stop detainees leaving their cell to exercise, seeing visitors and going to rehabilitation sessions.
		ACT human rights and discrimination commissioner Helen Watchirs says her office is investigating the situation.
	www.bigpond.com /news/national/content/20061212/1809355.asp (182 words)

	ACT prison makes good economic sense / NEWS ROOM / HOME - The Word (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Responding to recent suggestions that it would be cheaper to maintain the status quo — ‘transporting’ prisoners to serve their sentences in NSW prisons — Mr Stanhope said critics had overlooked a couple of basic facts.
		The first was that the Alexander Maconochie Centre would not only house ACT prisoners, it would also replace the ACT’s two sub-standard remand centres, at Belconnen and Symonston.
		The operating costs of the AMC would be comparable to the current cost of having ACT prisoners incarcerated in NSW facilities ($8.2 million in 2004-05), combined with the cost of these two remand centres ($11.2 million).
	www.theword.com.au /index.php/content/view/full/2472 (548 words)

	Refugee Action Committee, Canberra - Visit to Villawood
		As I walk through the security sensor I am reminded of almost an identical process a week earlier when I visited a friend in Belconnen Remand Centre in a suburb of Canberra.
		Patricia tell him the names and as the man goes towards the guards she tells me that he is Dr Aamer Sultan, a GP back in his country of Iraq.
		After we have left the Detention Centre Patricia will show me an article from Good Weekend - two of us, Sydney Morning Herald July 7, 2001 -which tells the story of Dr Sultan and his documented evidence of the deteriorating psychological state of fellow detainees.
	www.refugeeaction.org /inside/villawood.htm (1493 words)

	ON OTHER PAGES
		The visitors centre was staffed by two officers instead of six.
		Prisoners at Corrections Corporation of Australia’s Metropolitan Women’s Correctional Centre in Victoria staged a protest on 11 March after their entitlement to monthly all day children’s visits was cut.
		The proposal involves closing the Belconnen Remand Centre and contracting out the construction and management of the $25million jail to the private sector or a State Government.
	www.psiru.org /justice/ppriarchive/ppri18-03-98.asp (4240 words)

	AIATSIS - Health (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		AIATSIS is a core partner of the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health (CRCAH) and all health research projects it is involved with harmonise with the goals, priorities and objectives of the CRCAH.
		The Muuji Regional Centre for Social and Emotional Wellbeing is a consortium of three Aboriginal community controlled health and medical services: Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service (Canberra), Riverina Medical and Dental Aboriginal Corporation (Wagga Wagga), and Katungul Aboriginal Corporation and Community Medical Service (Narooma).
		This research project is investigating one of the four core objectives of the National Regional Centre Program for Social and Emotional Wellbeing.
	www.aiatsis.gov.au /research_program/projects/health (450 words)

	Green Left - Issues: Viewpoint: How to defend the public sector (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		CANBERRA -- Around 8pm on September 27, a group of Australian Federal Police launched an attack on picketers at the Belconnen Remand Centre.
		In fact there were two pickets against Liberal cuts that night: one at Belconnen Remand Centre and another at the TLC performance.
		When the Belconnen Remand Centre workers walked off the job in an indefinite stoppage, when health workers marched around their hospital, when union members refuse to process redundancies, that's a loud message to unions to organise to stop the destruction of the public sector and public services, not to make friends with the destroyers.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1995/205/11138 (580 words)

	Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform
		The disagreement is not about the desirability of abstinence but that that goal should not marginalise people and endanger their health and lives.
		Since 1995, the average daily occupancy of Belconnen Remand Centre has grown by over 100 per cent to accommodate drug problems.
		The ACT Government is spending many millions to build a large prison for the same reason.
	ffdlr.org.au /commentary/Prism.htm (754 words)

	Planet prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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	list-of-prisons.rainbowczech.com /planet-prison.html (1655 words)

	City News Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Budget spending on $186 million on capital works promises to invigorate the city’s economy for the next year, with six separate major projects on the drawing board.
		But among the most glaring omissions is the $110 million Canberra Prison Project, which also freezes moves to replace the outdated Belconnen Remand Centre.
		The new Quamby Youth Detention Centre building would provide safe and secure accommodation for detainees with a mix of residential and recreational facilities, Mr Quinlan said.
	www.citynews.com.au /news/Article.asp?id=3258 (283 words)

	australiandoctor.com.au
		The report found that Indigenous Australians made up 22% of the 25,353 permanent prison population.
		Canberra GP Dr Joo-Inn Chew, who worked in Belconnen Remand Centre for 18 months, said prisons were a “double-edged sword”, where prisoners’ health problems could be aided or exacerbated.
		She said the prison population generally came from a low socioeconomic background, with a history of poor health care.
	www.australiandoctor.com.au /news/56/0c041c56.asp (297 words)

	Prison talk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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	list-of-prisons.rainbowczech.com /prison-talk.html (2479 words)

	Healthy Vibe Race Around The Surgery
		We employ 40 staff, which includes full-time doctors, six part-time doctors, a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, midwife, and drug and alcohol nurse.
		Counsellors also attend the Belconnen Remand Centre and Quamby Youth Detention Centre to provide advocacy and support for clients.
		The ACT Government has committed $820,000 a year to us over the next four years to provide a hearing health service (otitis media), extend the Aboriginal Midwifery Access Program, employ a dual-diagnosis nurse and youth detox support workers.
	health.vibe.com.au /healthy_vibe/race/read.asp?id=216 (358 words)

	MHCA Website: Not for Service: Experiences of injustice and despair in mental health care in Australia
		There are 5 people under my organisation’s care with BPD, all had problems with the criminal system For example, a client with BPD who was charged with threatening to kill a worker whilst in Belconnen Remand Centre, despite the fact he had no means to carry this threat out.
		However, prisons are not treatment centres, and the likely outcome is the person is released back into their community even more disturbed and traumatised, effectively requiring increased support from MHS.
		One was released on an afternoon from the PSU [Psychiatric Support Unit] and taken the same day to the Belconnen Remand Centre because of self-harming.
	www.hreoc.gov.au /disability_rights/notforservice/report/part6_6.html (18362 words)

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		The officer will be referred to the Medical Examination Centre, Department of Health, for assessment.
		The Department, following consultation with the officer, may offer other employment opportunities within the Department, that is in cases where institutional stress or personal circumstances are deemed to be detrimental to the health of the officer.
		Once the Medical Examination Centre advises the Department that an officer is unfit to continue, medical retirement will be processed as expeditiously as possible.
	www.heart-intl.net /HEART/Internat/Comp/AustralianreposnetoAIDSinn.htm (3834 words)

	Correctional facilities in the ACT
		All sentenced prisoners in the ACT are held in NSW prisons
		A periodic detention centre operating both during the week and on weekends
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	www.aic.gov.au /research/corrections/facilities/act.html (95 words)

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		Thank you very much to the magistrates who seem to view this as a minor crime.
		Anyway, it’s a white VN Commodore with white (centre painted) mags and really low at the front.
		If anyone sees it can they post here please.
	www.the-riotact.com (2673 words)

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