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	Encyclopedia: Cockatoo Island
		Cockatoo Island is an island in Sydney Harbour, Sydney, Australia.
		The island was originally used as a prison and later developed as a shipyard.
		A music and arts festival was staged in late March 2005, and the island was scheduled to re-open to the public during that year.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cockatoo-Island (233 words)

	Sydney Harbour Federation Trust Sites - Cockatoo
		Cockatoo Island is the largest island in Sydney Harbour, and is located at the junction of the Parramatta and Lane Cove rivers.
		Cockatoo Island prisoners are relocated to Darlinghurst Gaol and prison buildings become the Industrial School for Girls and a reformatory.
		In 2005 the Cockatoo Island Festival was held to announce the rebirth of the island as an active part of the city.
	www.harbourtrust.gov.au /topics/sitescockatoo.html (1681 words)

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		Clearly then, Cutler, Keele and the Cockatoo Board, were in favour of a site closer to the city and its existing utilities and service infrastructure (rail links, wharfage, and power) and no doubt the extra operating costs in handling materials and labour to and from the island influenced their judgement.
		During June-July 1917 Walsh Island unionists were eventually involved in the negotiations and final agreement between the associated unions and the Commonwealth for the first Australia-wide shipbuilding industry agreement that incorporated a federal award with localised enterprise bargaining and piece work provisions in the engineering trades.
		Walsh Island, as an enterprise born of Labor's political will, was a testament to a period in Australia’s political and industrial history when the role of the state, and the political economy, was considered paramount to the promotion of the social and material progress of the working class.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/9968/aha97b.html (10087 words)

	Cockatoo, Victoria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the steep foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, 48 kilometres east of central Melbourne, lies the township of Cockatoo.
		Cockatoo is a residential town which has a full range of community services, social groups and sporting clubs but has retained the charms of its bush setting.
		Cockatoo's census populations have been 182 (1911), 648 (1954) and 2,854 (1991).
	www.arts.monash.edu.au /ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/cockatoovic.html (532 words)

	COCKATOO ISLAND, NEW SOUTH WALES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cockatoo Island is in Sydney Harbour, 10 km.
		In 1839 excavations were made in the Island's sandstone for the construction of wheat silos.
		A court judgement had greatly restricted the Government's scope to take in private work, so the dockyards was leased to the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Ltd. The onset of the second world war brought ship-building in addition to repair work, and reconditioning became a major work in the post war years.
	www.arts.monash.edu.au /ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/cockatooisland.html (384 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Cockatoo
		Cockatoo, common name for 17 species of birds in the parrot family, found in Australia, the East Indies, and the Philippines.
		Cockatoo Island, industrial island situated in Port Jackson harbour, off Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
		The predominant body colour in the family is green, but there are many exceptions.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Cockatoo.html (77 words)

	Ready to take flight - Arts - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		Cockatoo, stripped to near-death and reshaped beyond recognition, is not only our biggest harbour island but also our most synthetic.
		Of the USS New Orleans, which, having lost 50 metres of her bow to a Japanese torpedo near Guadalcanal in November 1942, steamed backwards all the way to Cockatoo Island for repairs.
		Of the bullying workplace culture that developed during the island's century as a Commonwealth and semi-private dockyard.
	www.smh.com.au /news/arts/ready-to-take-flight/2005/09/22/1126982166704.html (998 words)

	List of islands of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Australia has thousands of islands within its territory and several external territories.
		This is a list of selected Australian islands grouped by state or territory.
		Tasmania is a large island state off the south coast of the island continent of Australia
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_islands_of_Australia (77 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Cockatoo Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cockatoo Island, industrial island of Australia in Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) in the state of New South Wales.
		Cockatoo, common name for 17 species of birds in a family of the same order as the parrot family, found in Australia, the East Indies, and the...
		Island, any comparatively small body of land completely surrounded by water.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Cockatoo_Island.html (113 words)

	News and events Sydney Harbour Federation Trust - Cockatoo Island tours
		Travel to the island is via a regular Sydney Ferries service from Circular Quay.
		The tour is quite strenuous and most of the 2 hours is spent walking around the island, including one very steep incline.
		Cockatoo Island tours proceed regardless of the weather, so you will need to dress appropriately.
	www.harbourtrust.gov.au /topics/happcockatootours.html (272 words)

	Mining (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cockatoo Island, off the north-west coast of the Kimberley, has been mined for its high quality iron ore since 1948, when BHP first held the lease.
		Cockatoo Island and nearby Koolan Island, two members of a rich archipelago, were sacrificed to mining long ago.
		The best we can hope for, once mining ceases, is that Cockatoo Island will be in better shape than it is at present, and with its existing facilities it could again become a tourist destination, albeit one with scars.
	www.environskimberley.org.au /mining.htm (1758 words)

	Cockatoo Island Music Festival - from Parrot-Breaders.com
		The "Cockatoo Island Music Festival" took place on an island in the Sydney...
		Cockatoo Island originally housed convicts and was a shipyard until 1992, but the island has been...
		The organisers of a three-day music festival on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour say the event has been a huge success About 25 000 people attended the event which featured some of Australias be...
	www.parrot-breeders.com /cockatoos/2/cockatoo-island-music-festival.asp (230 words)

	AusEmade: Island Location Map, WA
		The island group comprises 27 islands, of which there are two separate atolls, the southern atoll of 26 islands, and the northern atoll (North Keeling Island, a single horse-shoe shaped island) which is about 24 kms from the main group.
		The island group is named after the coconut (Cocos nucifera), which were predominant, even before the additional planting of all of the southern atoll, as part of the Clunies Ross Estate.
		The island was once crossed with narrow gauge trolley tracks that carried small hand pushed wagons by which the islanders moved cargo around Kampong Baru.
	www.ausemade.com.au /wa/destination/i/islands.htm (652 words)

	National Archives of Australia - Fact Sheet 140 - Cockatoo Island Dockyard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cockatoo Island, the largest island in Sydney Harbour, was administered by colonial, state and federal governments from European occupation in 1839 until 1933.
		Initially used as a gaol by the Government of New South Wales, from 1856 the island included a dockyard; this function passed to the Commonwealth in 1912 with its purchase of the island.
		In 1933 the dockyard was leased to Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Co. Pty Ltd, but the Commonwealth’s close involvement continued as owner of the island and the major client.
	www.naa.gov.au /publications/fact_sheets/FS140.html (674 words)

	AusEmade: Western Australia Island Hotels and Accommodation, Western Australia (WA), Australia
		Cockatoo Island Resort • PO Box 996, DERBY • KIMBERLEY WA 6728 • Ph: 08 9191 7477 • Fax: 08 9191 7484 • Heritage and Garden Villas, comprising of 20 Australian colonial-style luxurious villas, with spacious, 2-3 bedroom, set in hillside hide-aways and tropical gardens.
		This part of the island’s operation is separate to the main Cockatoo Island Resort.
		Visitors can also camp on the island, although they need a form of transport, with the opportunity to explore the northern end of the Island, which is closest to the surfing breaks and fishing spots.
	www.ausemade.com.au /wa/accom/i/island-hotels.htm (260 words)

	Broome & Cockatoo Island
		The transfer to Cockatoo Island was in a 6-seater, single prop plane.
		It is possible to walk around the west of the Island to a couple of beautiful beaches, the one pictures is the "back beach" which looks out into The Buccaneer Archipeligo.
		The view below is of the "resort end" of the island with the Iron Ore Bar to the left of the beach in the centre of the picture.
	members.iinet.net.au /~lewisbt/Cockatoo_Is.htm (715 words)

	$60 Million to Restore Sydney Harbour Landmark Media Release 29 May 2003
		On Cockatoo Island, power will be restored and essential remediation and decontamination works are underway on the island's historic convict and industrial precincts.
		Dr Kemp said the plan is focused on reviving maritime industry on the waterfront and the restoration of historic buildings and facilities for educational, community and commercial uses.
		For example, docks and workshops at Cockatoo Island will be offered for lease to boat builders, sail makers and chandlers.
	www.deh.gov.au /minister/env/2003/mr29may203.html (508 words)

	FasterLouder.com.au: Event Reviews: Cockatoo Island Festival @ Cockatoo Island, 25-27/03/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cockatoo had it all covered and there was always a surprise.
		These surprises were either brought to you by Mother Nature (think rainbows and sunsets) or by the organisers, by the island and its history and architecture or by the fellow residents for this long weekend.
		And with the just been and gone full moon rising directly over the Harbour Bridge and a big man in the moon smile overlooking Cockatoo Island, the ambitions of the organisers and the enjoyment of those in attendance seemed fulfilled.
	www.contribute.fasterlouder.com.au /p/np/view.php?id=1989&printstory=1 (734 words)

	Music festival information, music festival contact and booking information. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Situated opposite Balmain and Hunters Hill (about 4km west of the Harbour Bridge), Cockatoo Island is actually the biggest island in the harbour, stretching to just over 18 hectares of land.
		For the last nine years this historic landmark has been keeping very quiet - vacant, save for the odd security guard or two - but Cockatoo Island is in fact rich with history, with convicts, naughty school girls and secret submarines all part of its intriguing past.
		Managed by the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, Cockatoo Island is a fantastic location, untouched by the usual development woes and still retaining all its magical history, from convict-built wheat silos to colossal industrial cranes.
	www.tradmusic.com /festivalguide/festival_details.asp?festivalID=914 (210 words)

	Discovering Democracy - Teaching Civics - Cockatoo Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Cockatoo Island series is designed to introduce Years 2, 3 and 4 students to the values, principles and operation of Australia's democracy.
		The inhabitants of Cockatoo Island are real Australian birds, especially selected to draw attention to particular species.
		The three Teacher's In-Flight Guides that accompany the Cockatoo Island series are extensive and include flline masters, role play cards and letters to parents and carers to involve them in the learning process.
	www.curriculum.edu.au /democracy/feature/cockatoo.htm (474 words)

	Cockatoo Island Resort, Western Australia - Fact Sheet
		Cockatoo Island Resort was re-opened in September 1997.
		It is the only Island Resort located on the north west coast of Australia and lies just over one hours flying time north of Broome or 35 minutes from Derby.
		Cockatoo Island Resort is packaged with major wholesalers including Ansett Holidays.
	www.holiday-wa.net /cocfacts.htm (411 words)

	Cockatoo Island - from Parrot-Breaders.com
		The sandstone knoll that is Cockatoo Island has undergone extensive cutting and filling to create...
		Cockatoo Island Resort The only island resort off the north west of Australia.
		Cockatoo Island is an imaginary island run by...
	www.parrot-breeders.com /cockatoos/2/cockatoo-island.asp (246 words)

	European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights: news
		Despite the ruling, the group, which immediately applied to appeal against the decision, vowed to remain on Cockatoo Island indefinitely and if necessary to take the matter to the High Court of England.
		Therefore, so far as law was set out in Mabo, the Commonwealth Government's claim to Cockatoo Island seemed a certainty, and the Aborigines were "trespassing".
		The Commonwealth launched legal action to have them removed, arguing they were trespassing and that the island was unsafe and if anyone was hurt it would be held liable.
	www.eniar.org /news/cockatoo.html (608 words)

	Chapter 3: William T. Swadling and the Ship Painters and Dockers Union
		Active as a job delegate and a regular attender and speaker at union meetings, he was elected as a Branch delegate to the Union’s Federal Council together with A.J.Elvin and Jack McDonald and as a delegate to the Labor Council with McDonald and Mahony.
		At the same meeting, he resigned as delegate at Cockatoo Island, giving as his reason that there had been conflicting decisions made which placed him in a false position as delegate.
		It appears as an undemocratic procedure, when the men at Cockatoo Island apparently were not consulted and the delegate’s decision was simply adopted without any expression of opposition.
	www.takver.com /history/myunion/myunion03c.htm (4191 words)

	PEO resources: 'Cockatoo Island'
		Cockatoo Island is an imaginary island run by a parliament of Australian Birds.
		Illustrated by central Australian artist Kaye Kessing, they tell the story of how the birds organise life on the island to be fair and tolerant with opportunities for all and the right to be heard.
		The Cockatoo Island package is now being sold throughout the country through Thomson Learning (also known as Thomas Nelson).
	www.peo.gov.au /resources/cockatoo.html (239 words)

	Tocal's convicts - web exhibition
		In 1839 construction began on a prison at Cockatoo Island, the largest island in Sydney Harbour, to house convicts withdrawn from Norfolk Island.
		James Forrester was at Tocal in 1832, became free in 1838 and in 1848 was sentenced to five years in irons on Cockatoo Island for horse stealing.
		He served four years at Cockatoo Island before gaining a Ticket of Leave, but one year later he was again on the island for ‘receiving’ a stolen horse.
	www.tocal.com /homestead/vandv/vv30.htm (260 words)

	Appendix 13: British seamens' strike 1925, unemployment, workmans' compensation, assault case at Cockatoo Island, the ...
		McDonald, secretary of the Ship Painters and Dockers Union stated today that a resolution had been carried at a meeting on Cockatoo Island, protesting against the scandal contained in the remarks of an official of the dockyard and printed in the Evening News yesterday, against the painters and dockers employed there.
		The men claim that their moral standard is as high as that of any other worker employed on the island, he added, and further, that they are as great an asset to the dockyard as any other employee.
		The influence of the Russian Revolution and the early years of activity and news emanating from the still-fledgling Soviet Union and the formation of the Communist Party towards the end of 1920, gave impetus to the push to radicalise the Labor Party's programme and platform.
	www.takver.com /history/myunion/myunionapp13.htm (2784 words)

	DIG Internet Radio - News - Cockatoo Is hits right note with music festival goers
		Cockatoo Island originally housed convicts and was a shipyard until 1992, but the island has been off-limits to the public since then.
		Mr Bailey says one of the aims of the festival was to open Cockatoo Island to the public.
		"Cockatoo Island has really been the main event in all this and people have really reacted well to that."
	www.abc.net.au /dig/stories/s1332652.htm (269 words)

	Australian IT - Dockyard floats ICT future (Chris Jenkins, OCTOBER 18, 2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		SYDNEY'S historic Cockatoo Island could be reinvented as an ICT innovation centre if a plan being pushed by government authorities goes ahead.
		It is also seeking proposals "on how the island can be developed to meet the current and future needs of the Australian information and communications technology sector", the authority said in a statement.
		The trust was keen to engage the ICT industry to ensure the island had infrastructure that could attract business like IT services, communications and multimedia production, he said.
	australianit.news.com.au /articles/0,7204,16958947^15317^^nbv^15306,00.html (306 words)

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