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	Woomera, South Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Woomera (31°09´S 136°48´E) is a town in South Australia, 488 km north of Adelaide, along the Stuart Highway.
		From 1999 to 2003, the nearby Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre, held asylum seekers and refugees.
		Woomera's attractions include Missile Park which features missiles and rockets developed at Woomera, and a visitors centre and museum which was formerly a recreation centre for U.S. Army personnel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Woomera,_South_Australia (289 words)

	Woomera, South Australia - TheBestLinks.com - Nurrungar, Afghanistan, Adelaide, ECHELON, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nurrungar, Woomera, South Australia, Australia, Afghanistan, Adelaide, ECHELON...
		Woomera is a village in South Australia, 450 km north of Adelaide, along the Stuart Highway.
		Since 2000 (?), Australia has kept a detention center in the Woomera area, holding asylum seekers, refugees, and also prisoners of war from Afghanistan as part of the War on Terror.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Nurrungar.html (197 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - woomera
		Woomera, town in south central Australia, in the state of South Australia.
		Woomera lies inland from Spencer Gulf, northwest of Port Augusta, and west...
		Sir Richard MacDonnell, governor of South Australia, named the range for explorer John McDouall Stuart in 1859.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /woomera.html (70 words)

	CNN.com - Australia's immigration problem worsens - January 24, 2001
		The riots, coupled with a recent surge of illegal immigrants and refugees attempting to enter Australia, are creating headaches and embarrassment for the government and immigration authorities.
		Australia is one of the top 10 destinations for illegal immigrants and refugees.
		Australia's upsurge in arrivals is believed to be the result of a sophisticated criminal syndicate which charges about 10,000 dollars per person to smuggle them into Australia.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/01/24/australia.immigration (717 words)

	Welcome to Woomera, South Australia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Woomera 'Village' is a small town located in the north of South Australia and managed by the Australian Department of Defence through the Defence Support Centre Woomera.
		The original Woomera Survival Guide was produced by the Woomera Public Library in 1991 to help the transient population of Woomera locate and access essential services and facilities within the village.
		Whilst staying in Woomera, please take the opportunity to visit the many clubs, local businesses and organisations listed in the guide and I am sure your stay will be an enjoyable and unforgettable one.
	www.picknowl.com.au /homepages/dacarruthers/message.html (239 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is synonymous with the testing of long range missiles and rockets during the Cold War, and the launch and tracking of spacecraft in the early days of the Space Age.
		Today, the Woomera Prohibited Area remains in business as the largest land-based Range in the western world, hosting a wide spectrum of ground, air and space activities for Australian and international defence and aerospace organisations.
		Woomera Village on the edge of the Woomera Prohibited Area was once a secret town, closed to the outside world.
	www.woomerasa.com.au (143 words)

	AusEmade: Woomera Information and Attractions, South Australia (SA), Australia
		A spear would be placed on the woomera and both spear and woomera is held in one hand, parallel to the line of sight.
		Woomera was established in 1947 as a joint project with the British for testing and launching of experimental rockets and missiles.
		Woomera and Woomera Village was a prohibited area for visitors until 1982.
	www.ausemade.com.au /sa/destination/w/woomera-attractions.htm (980 words)

	Indymedia UK - Woomera border camp starts! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Woomera is located 500 kms from the nearest city of Adelaide, in South Australia.
		It is best known as the location of Australia's largest onshore internment camp, and the scene of the most determined resistance to Australian Government policies of automatically and extrajudicially interning people who arrive in Australia by boat and without papers.
		The conditions of imprisonment at Woomera are unbearable and have repeatedly triggered uprisings by imprisoned refugees.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2002/03/26062.html (272 words)

	J. A. Hill. Adelaide, South.Australia / Commemorative envelopes.
		Spaceport Woomera Pty a wholly- owned subsidiary of Kistler Aerospace Corporation of the US was scheduled to open the Worlds first commercial fully operational spaceport at Woomera but I have been informed that this project has now been put on hold due to restructuring.
		Ausroc 11 was built and taken to Woomera for launching on the 22nd October 1992 but due to a lox valve malfunction it blew up on the launch pad on that date.
		Australia had just issued a set of four aircraft stamps, which seemed to match the proposed color scheme on the envelopes very well.
	users.chariot.net.au /~jahill/australi6.htm (1314 words)

	Woomera - South Australia -
		Woomera, the word describes a short stick used to launch a spear in the language of the local Aborigines, came into existence in 1947.
		On 1 April 1947 Arcoona leased the land to the Department of Defence and the Woomera village was surveyed and built.
		The Woomera Heritage Centre is open from 9.30 to 4.30 from March to November and closed December to February.
	www.smh.com.au /news/South-Australia/Woomera/2005/02/17/1108500204798.html (980 words)

	Woomera - TheBestLinks.com - Australia, Spear, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 21st century, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Woomera, Australia, Spear, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 21st century...
		See Woomera, South Australia, for a town with historic links to rocket science and location of a controversial refugee detention camp.
		Having the same function as the American atlatl, its main differences are only in materials and method of construction, and in that the woomera has had continued use into the 21st century in some remote areas of Australia.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Woomera.html (145 words)

	SpaceLift Australia Plans To Use Russian Launches From Woomera
		Both the Commonwealth and South Australian Governments are very supportive of the project which will utilise Woomera and its existing infrastructure and create a $200 million plus industry for South Australia and 150 new jobs.
		The launching vehicles on which Spacelift's rockets are based are said to be the most proven, accurate and reliable launch vehicles in their class with a track record of more than 400 accomplished launches (72 of them in the presence of foreign observers) with 98.4% accuracy.
		South Australia will resume the position it held in the 1950s and 60s as the home of significant space launching.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/aust-99e.html (1108 words)

	Report Two
		The Minister spoke : of the establishment of Woomera in 1947 which was evidence of Australia's commitment to a strategic framework in the post war era.
		This welcome address was followed by a procession of floats representing different groups in Woomera that made its way through the centre of the village to the area school.
		Space Unit members who collect Woomera launches have an opportunity to support their club and make a bid for this very rare commemorative set as no others were produced.
	users.chariot.net.au /~sah/rockets/report2.htm (841 words)

	Woomera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		These woomeras were often shaped like long narrow bowls and could be used for carrying water-soaked vegetable matter (which could later be sucked for its moisture, but wouldn't spill) as well as small food items such as little lizards or seeds.
		Many woomeras had a sharp stone cutting edge attached to the end of the handle with fl gum from the spinifex plant.
		The woomera could be used as a shield for protection against spears and boomerangs.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/W/Woomera.htm (319 words)

	Firsts in the Space Race. From an Australian perspective.
		With the launching of WRESAT, Australia did indeed join the big league of nations launching satellites from their own territory, of which the US and the USSR were the only members at that date.
		Australia launchel WRESAT 29 November 1967 from Woomera, South Australia.
		Although Australia was at the forefront of Man's initial steps into space, the retirement of Sir Robert Menzies as PM heralded a long era of neglect of satellite technology.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /crcss/history.html (1062 words)

	Australia
		Australia has always been fairly generous to recognised refugees who want to live in the Australian community, with providing thousands of resettlement places each year.
		This way Australia seems to be a multi-cultural nation, which makes it so interesting to all the people visiting Australia each year.
		Australia’s Government is famous to be very strict to illegal immigrants.
	www.ulricianum-aurich.de /en22l/migration/australia_inga.htm (491 words)

	Woomera Requests Archive 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I lived in Woomera for 2 years (early 89- late 90) and I was hoping that maybe you had some E-mail addresses of some people who still live there.
		Woomera was an extremely busy and exciting place in the early 70's with all the ELDO launches and approximately 5000 personnel living in the village so there was plenty to do and plenty of parties to attend.
		I was born in 1969 at Woomera hospital.
	homepage.powerup.com.au /~woomera/arch2.htm (1070 words)

	[A-List] Australia: nuclear waste for aborigines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Closer to the town lies the equally huge Woomera Prohibited Area, which is still used for rocket and weapons testing by the Australian military.
		Until recently Woomera itself, a fly-blown outpost, played host to a refugee detention centre, which after a series of escapes, riots and hunger strikes, is in the process of being mothballed.
		The state government of South Australia is fiercely opposed to the football pitch-sized underground repository, and has vowed to put up a fight.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2003-June/026558.html (919 words)

	Kistler Breaks Ground at Woomera
		Woomera - July 24, 1998 - Culminating more than a year of obtaining environmental, regulatory and permitting authorizations, Spaceport Woomera, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kistler Aerospace Corp., is set to begin construction of the world's first fully operational commercial spaceport at Woomera in South Australia, following a major ground-breaking event.
		The company plans to operate the two spaceports simultaneously to allow greater flexibility in scheduling and in the range of launch azimuths that can be flown to meet customer requirements.
		In achieving this milestone, Kistler worked in cooperation with the minister for industry, science and tourism, John Moore; the minister for defense, Ian McLachlan; the premier of South Australia, John Olsen; and various government agencies to obtain all the necessary environmental, regulatory and permit authorizations.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/kistler-98h.html (498 words)

	Defence South Australia :: Woomera Test & Evaluation Range (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Woomera is a key unique defence and commercial test, evaluation and training facility located in South Australia's outback.
		Woomera range is a unique asset given its remoteness, size and infrastructure.
		A desert climate ensures virtually no downtime because of adverse weather and there are few airspace restrictions, affording greater flexibility in the planning and conduct of test and training operations.
	www.defence-sa.com /html/infastructure/woomera.htm (200 words)

	2CSWOMMERA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Long Range Weapons Project agreement between the governments of Australia and Great Britain was signed in September 1947 and Woomera, South Australia, selected as the administrative centre for the range.
		The supervision of the construction of the handstands and technical area at Woomera was the responsibility of a corporal plant operator, who undertook this task under the overall guidance of the Senior Works Officer.
		Throughout the process of developing Australia's system of strategic airfields, planning meetings in the Department of Air were primarily concerned with concepts of operations, war fighting strategies, and weapons systems.
	www.homestead.com /raafacs/2CSWOMMERA.html (1793 words)

	Environment News Service ENS Latest Environmental Information Education Current Issues RSS
		Seven Aboriginal women from South Australia say it was their campaign that turned back the nuclear dump planned for the desert outback, although they have little money, do not speak English, and cannot read or write.
		The proposed design of the Woomera nuclear dump, the details of which were never made public, was to bury the waste in shallow trenches that the Bureau of Science acknowledged would not prevent leakage of water, nor human, animal or plant intrusion.
		Australia is a major producer of uranium that fuels nuclear reactors around the world.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/aug2004/2004-08-12-05.asp (1249 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| UK refuses asylum for Australia boys
		"Australia is a signatory to the UN Convention on Refugees so there are no grounds for anyone to seek asylum in Britain from Australia," she said.
		Australia's Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock said earlier that the two were not refugees.
		Australia is home to about 1,200 asylum seekers, mainly from the Middle East and Afghanistan, who are kept in remote camps while their claims are assessed.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_2135000/2135187.stm (545 words)

	urg:::Various SA N Dump (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The federal government is currently into its sixth week of consultation about the waste repository, and has sent a team of government scientists on a road trip through South Australia, in an effort to build support for the proposal.
		However South Australian parliament has thrown a legislative spanner in the works and looks likely to pass a bill next week banning the storage of national radioactive waste.
		MIKE RANN: It seems that the Commonwealth's vision for outback South Australia in this year of the outback is two detention centres.
	lists.myspinach.org /pipermail/urg/2002-August/000770.html (1051 words)

	Nuclear Free Australia
		Australia produces two types of radioactive waste, low level radioactive waste and intermediate level radioactive waste.
		Unlike the now abandoned low-level dump at Woomera in South Australia,the new facility has to be near a major population centre for staffing and security reasons, sources said.
		An existing nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights, south of the Sydney CBD and built to manufacture plutonium for an Australian nuclear weapons program in the 1950's will, if common sense does not prevail, be replaced by a larger reactor currently under construction (in what is now a residential suburb and on a fault line).
	nukefreeaus.org /campaigns/Waste (2566 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: ECHELON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Australia hunts for communications originating in Indochina, Indonesia and southern China.
		Supporters stress that ECHELON is simply a method of sorting captured signals and is just one of the many arrows in the intelligence community's quiver, along with increasingly sophisticated bugging and communications interception techniques, satellite tracking, through-clothing scanning, automated biometric recognition systems that can recognize faces, fingerprints and retina patterns.
		UKUSA member nations Australia and New Zealand have already confirmed that ECHELON exists (though not specifying any details of its capabilities or operations), and the Netherlands (which isn't an ECHELON participant) have also confirmed the spynet's existence (through a parliamentary hearing).
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=ECHELON (1688 words)

	Reports of the Total Solar Eclipse 2002
		The eclipse began in the South Atlantic at sunrise, passed over the African continent from Angola, through Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa to Mozambique, continued across the Indian Ocean south of Madagascar, ending at sunset in Australia.
		Ceduna, South Australia - Byron and Fay Soulsby - Theodore Lunar Observatory
		Stuart Highway, South Australia - Olivier "Klipsi" Staiger
	www.linander.dk /stig/se02lnks.htm (384 words)

	Bulletin - Australia this week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		An asylum-seeker at the Woomera, South Australia, detention centre hurled himself onto perimeter razor wire as part of continued detainee protests at the centre against delays in the processing of their refugee applications.
		While the number of people at Woomera who have sewed their lips together appeared to decline, the hunger strike continued with 370 participating, according to lawyers.
		Guards and police at Woomera clashed with the media when they ordered reporters and cameramen to move from their compound 500 metres from the centre’s perimeter to a site not visible to the detainees; an ABC radio reporter was arrested and charged for questioning the move.
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/eddesk.nsf/All/475CB5C40DEBAE84CA256B4B00024D5B!open (820 words)

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