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	Port Hedland, Western Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Port Hedland (20°18′S 118°36′E) is Australia's biggest mineral port, with a population of about 13,000.
		Port Hedland was seen as a good location as it is located far away from the major cities, and had an international airport that would allow for easy deportations when required.
		Privatised by the Howard Government in the late 1990, the Port Hedland Immigration Reception and Processing Centre was the location of many protests and suicide attempts by its detainees, as well as so-far unresolved deaths (see Mohammed Saleh).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Port_Hedland,_Western_Australia (454 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Western Australia
		Western Australia's economy has been largely based on the extraction and export of mining and petroleum commodities, especially iron ore, alumina, natural gas, nickel and gold.
		One of the primary beneficiaries has been Western Australia, with GSP growth of 7.5% for the 2003/04 financial year, which makes it the fastest growing Australian state and allows it also to have the lowest unemployment rate as well.Agricultural exports are also important, especially wheat, barley and sheep products such as wool and meat.
		Whilst the sovereign of Western Australia is the Queen of Australia (Queen Elizabeth II), and executive power nominally vested in her State representative the Governor (currently John Sanderson until August 2005, to be replaced by Governor-elect Ken Michael), executive power is effectively administered by the premier and ministers.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Western_Australia (804 words)

	Western Australia: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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	Port Hedland, Western Australia : Your Window to Western Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Port Hedland is a coastal city situated in the Pilbara area of Australia's North West tourist region.
		Port Hedland faces north to the Timor Sea and is one of Western Australia's major deepwater ports and is the largest city in the region.
		With a Tropical climate, Port Hedland feels the brunt of many cyclones during summer but for the rest of the year, the waters are calm and tranquil.
	www.porthedland.west-oz.com (621 words)

	Port Hedland - Western Australia - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au
		The Port Hedland coastline was first explored by Europeans in the seventeenth century when a number of Dutch vessels bound for Batavia sailed too far south and collided with the coast.
		The Port Hedland townsite was gazetted in October 1896 and a jetty and an 8-km causeway over the marshes into the town were completed by 1899.
		The Port Trail is a 1.8-km walk concentrating on the wharves, jetties and warehouses which existed in Port Hedland before the arrival of the iron ore industry.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Western-Australia/Port-Hedland/2005/02/17/1108500208658.html (1873 words)

	Port Hedland - Port Hedland WA - Port Hedland Accommodation - Port Hedland Western Australia \| WestAccom.net \| Western ...
		Located on the coast, Port Hedland with a population of approximately 15,000, has lovely warm weather and is a great location for Whale watching, Flatback turtle nesting watching (The turtles can be seen on Cemetery Beach, Cooke Point, Munda Beach and Pretty Pool from October - March), crabbing and fishing.
		Port Hedland is also one of the major iron ore ports in Australia which is also a major tourist feature as mine tours are available and the sight of 3 kilometre long iron ore trains are a regular occurrence as they transport their cargo back and forth from Mount Newman to Port Hedland.
		Captain Peter Hedland of the cutter "Mystery" discovered what appeared to be an inland lake in his mind, in 1863, where he initially named it Mangrove Harbour, but shortly after renamed it to Port Hedland.
	www.westaccom.net /port_hedland.html (490 words)

	Port Hedland Tourism
		Port Hedland lies on an inlet fringed with mangroves that are teeming with life; a number of hand-shaped tidal creeks come off its shallow natural harbour.
		Port Hedland is an industrial center focused on the extraction, processing and exporting of iron-ore from the massive deposits in surrounding ranges.
		Port Hedland was always a popular meeting place for Aborigines due to the large amounts of wildlife in the ocean, tidal creeks and mangroves.
	www.discoverwest.com.au /western_australia/port_hedland.html (560 words)

	Port Hedland in Western Australia
		Port Hedland was discovered in 1829 but it was not until 1864 that the Pilbara’s first sheep station was set up on the nearby De Grey River.
		By 1870 the town was home port to 150 pearling luggers and the port was used by them and other vessels to export wool and pearls to international markets.
		Port Hedland, with the local salt processing works exporting one million tonnes a year, makes it in terms of tonnage as the nation’s busiest port.
	www.holiday-wa.net /hedland.htm (344 words)

	Historical Encyclopedia of WA - Share Your History
		In many ways, Western Australian women were the most progressive, producing the first parliamentarians, ministers and premiers in the whole of Australia, and often among some of the first in the world.
		While the Sisters in Western Australia no longer have direct teaching roles in their schools they continue to provide services to those most vulnerable in our society such as Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, youth, the economically poor, people in rural areas, women, migrants and refugees.
		Western Australian visitors included a policeman (later Commissioner) a fireman and an ambulance man. Schools set up relationships resulting in a number of visits both ways along with numbers of exchange students and teachers, and many citizens of each nation felt they could be welcomed in their Sister Cities.
	www.encyclopedia.uwapress.uwa.edu.au /write_a_history_promotion (20426 words)

	Port Hedland (Western Australia)
		He was examining the country in the vicinity and was later murdered by his Aboriginal crew.
		But I found Port Hedland interesting enough for a 24-hour stay, and if you pass by you should stay at least for this amount of time.
		Port Hedland is situated on the eastern side of the Pilbara region, some 700 kilometres west of Broome.
	www.creativespirits.de /ozwest/porthedland (238 words)

	Port Hedland - Tourism Western Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Port Hedland, a large coastal town, is located approximately 1,660 kilometres from Perth (approximately a two hour flight).
		Port Hedland is renowned for its Indigenous culture and history, long trains, big ships, salt piles and red dust.
		Port Hedland's Indigenous and early European history is rich and interesting.
	www.westernaustralia.com /en/search/product.htm?ID=9004988 (346 words)

	Australia
		Australia became known for its liberal legislation: free compulsory education, protected trade unionism with industrial conciliation and arbitration, the secret ballot, women's suffrage, maternity allowances, and sickness and old-age pensions.
		Australia released the Flood report in 2004, an assessment of prewar intelligence on Iraq, which described the evidence supporting Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction as “thin, ambiguous, and incomplete.” But like similar U.S. and UK intelligence reports, it cleared the government of manipulating the intelligence.
		Australia has been the victim of two significant terrorist attacks in recent years: the 2002 Bali, Indonesia, bombings by a group with ties to al-Qaeda in which 202 died, many of whom were Australian, and the 2004 attack on the Australian embassy in Indonesia, which killed ten.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107296.html (1281 words)

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		Carl and his family were vacationing near Port Hedland, Western Australia, in December, 1975, when the very intense Tropical Cyclone Joan made landfall on the night of December 7th-8th.
		Port Hedland was lucky to be spared the full force of the 270 km/hr (147 kt) wind gusts, although I was somewhat disappointed, as I had been looking forward to an eye passage.
		The Victoria Highway between the Northern Territory and Western Australia was cut from the 13th to the 28th, and the Buntine and Carpentaria Highways were also cut for extended periods.
	www.australiasevereweather.com /cyclones/2001/summ0102.txt (11306 words)

	Death Adders Acanthophis: An overview, including descriptions of FIVE new species and ONE subspecies.
		Populations of Acanthophis from Western Australia and the Northern Territory formerly referred to as this species are now classified as A.
		pyrrhus from Western Australia into the new species is confirmed by their statement 'Storr (1981:207-208) provided a description of a species from north-western Australia that he regarded as Acanthophis pyrrhus.
		A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia.
	www.smuggled.com /addtax2.htm (10127 words)

	Port Hedland Sawfish - Giant Sawfish of Port Hedland in Western Australia
		From Port Hedland in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia
		These two Sawfish were caught inadvertently while fishing for other species in January of 2005 in Port Hedland, Western Australia.
		I had never caught a sawfish in my life and now I had managed to catch two of them in totally different circumstances in the same week.
	www.sportfishworld.com /Features/Sawfish/Sawfish.html (757 words)

	Salt in Australia
		Dampier Salt is located within 10 kilometres of where Western Australia oil and gas and most of its iron ore are exported (and mooted as an area for major industrial investment).
		Except some 80 000 tonnes of salt used for Western Australia's chloralkali plants, all the salt is sold overseas principally for chloralkali plants and industrial purposes.
		Unless Western Australia develops a substantial chloralkali industry (that would require at least 300 000 tonnes of salt equivalent to about 5 per cent of production) local demand is not anticipated to change.
	www.chemlink.com.au /salt.htm (1392 words)

	All Seasons Port Hedland - Tourism Western Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		All Seasons Port Hedland is set in lush tropical gardens overlooking the Indian Ocean, offering comfortable accommodation and warm, friendly service for business or leisure travellers.
		Port Hedland is the major port of the northwest and home to some of the largest iron ore carriers in the world.
		All Seasons Port Hedland is the perfect base for discovering this spectacular Pilbara region.
	www.westernaustralia.com /en/search/product.htm?ID=9000430 (329 words)

	Port Hedland, Australia
		In the 19th C, like most ports in the tropical North West, it was a pearl-fishing center.
		Its great days began with the iron ore boom of the 1960s, and it is now the Australian port handling the greatest annual tonnage.
		Facing the harbor control tower is an exhibition illustrating the development of the port.
	www.planetware.com /australia/port-hedland-aus-wa-ph.htm (241 words)

	Australia and Refugees, 19012002: An Annotated Chronology Based on Official Sources
		From the beginning of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901, the framers of immigration policy made it clear that Chinese and other 'non-whites' had to be stopped from permanently settling here.
		The White Australia Policy, embedded in the Immigration (Restriction) Act 1901, remained a guiding principle of Australian immigration until its gradual abolition between 1966 and 1973.
		The first group of 'boat people' to be detained at Port Hedland consisted of 104 Indo-Chinese, transferred from Darwin in October 1991.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/online/Refugees_s1.htm (2568 words)

	Best Western Hospitality Inn Port Hedland
		After a hectic day of exploring the sights and surrounds of Port Hedland, you can relax in the comfortable and well appointed rooms.
		Port Hedland is renowned for its iron ore industry.
		The Town Observation Tower will offer you endless views of the area and you may notice while discovering Port Hedland huge mountains of Salt, another huge export from the town.
	www.porthedland.wa.hospitalityinns.com.au (247 words)

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		Fiery heat burned many western parts of Australia's state of Western Australia Friday.
		Late Friday morning, EST, Daryl wields highest sustained winds of 75 mph about a center which is 120 miles north of Port Hedland, Western Australia; it is moving southwestward at 7 mph.
		On this projected course, the cyclone's core would skirt the coast of Australia from Port Hedland to Learmonth, but any southward deviation would bring the storm inland.
	www.weathermatrix.net /archive/highlights/accuworld-060121a.htm (192 words)

	HEADLINES.com.au : Business and Finance : Rio Tinto Announces Purchase of Cargill's Australian Salt Operation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Dampier Salt Limited, a majority-owned company of resources giant Rio Tinto Limited, has reached agreement with Cargill Australia Limited regarding the purchase of Cargill's salt operation located at Port Hedland, Western Australia for US$95 million, plus contingent performance-based payments payable over a number of years, not to exceed US$15 million in aggregate.
		The Port Hedland operation presently produces and exports around three million tonnes of salt per annum.
		Cargill Australia Ltd is wholly-owned by Cargill Inc., a private company with significant salt interests in North and South America.
	www.headlines.com.au /business/2001/july/006.html (310 words)

	Hospitality Inn Port Hedland - Western Australia.
		The Hospitality Inn Port Hedland is ideally positioned on the beach front within easy reach of the town centre and the harbour.
		The Best Western Hospitality Inn Port Hedland is " the Best part of the local experience " offering quality accommodation enhanced with local character and service.This reflects the essence of Australian hospitality that has become the signature of the Best Western Australia brand.
		The Hospitality Inn Port Hedland has 40 newly renovated well equipped units with Queen sized beds, refrigerators, colour TV, air-conditioning, tea and coffee making facilities.
	www.ozhorizons.com.au /wa/midw/hosp_inn/home.html (282 words)

	Port Hedland Motorcycles - Motorbike Shop Western Australia, Motorcycle Sales & Servicing Pilbara WA, Marine, Outdoor ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A good motorbike and marine shop depends on the passion and the experience of the people that are there to help advise and sort deals out that will put a smile on everyone's face.
		Port Hedland Motorcycles in Western Australia have been at the forefront of motorcycle sales and servicing for over 20 years and Hedland Pleasure Marine have been servicing the Pilbara area in WA for more than 10 years.
		Combining the two businesses has resulted in the creation of the ultimate toy shop for all types of enthusiasts as well as a new level of high quality service and support from our dedicated team.
	www.hedlandmotorcycleandmarine.com.au (205 words)

	Hanstrum and Holland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		During operational trials at Port Hedland, Western Australia the aircraft encountered a severe microburst.
		During the late afternoon of 24 January 1998 the Aerosonde was performing routine observations of the sea-breeze circulation and its interactions with a series of moderate convective cells that had developed along the sea-breeze front.
		With modification to take account of surface conditions at Port Hedland immediately prior to the microburst (surface temperature of 33°C and dewpoint of 25°C) provided a large convective available potential energy (CAPE) of 3700 J/kg.
	www.nssl.noaa.gov /users/brooks/public_html/sls19/abstracts/hanstrumholland.html (436 words)

	Port Hedland Flights: Cheap flights to Port Hedland, Western Australia
		Flying from all major UK airports on all major airlines, we have loads of discounted flights to Port Hedland, so simply use our search box below to book the cheapest available Port Hedland flight.
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	www.lastminute.com /site/find/World/Australasia/Australia/Western-Australia/Port-Hedland/Port-Hedland--Flight.html (183 words)

	Working in Partnership - Port Hedland Regional Workshop
		The third Regional Workshop under the Working in Partnership Program was held at the Port Hedland Civic Centre in Port Hedland, Western Australia on 29-30 May 2003.
		The concept for the Port Hedland Workshop, like the preceding Kalgoorlie workshop (March 2003), was based on two fundamental premises:
		The Draft Charter for the group and the membership can be found in Section 3 of the Port Hedland Workshop Report.
	www.industry.gov.au /content/itrinternet/cmscontent.cfm?objectid=B17110AA-960C-492F-88ACDC7D65D559C8&indexPages=/content/sitemap.cfm?objectid=48A44FA6-20E0-68D8-ED4AA5F73E153B57 (647 words)

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