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	Woomera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The woomera hook is at the extreme left end.
		A good woomera is indispensible when hunting game at a distance with a spear, including wallabies, emu, plain turkey, scrub turkey and geese.
		One end of a woomera has a hook which the butt of the spear hooks into.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/2970/woomera.htm (137 words)

	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 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A woomera is an (A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived) Aboriginal (A long pointed rod used as a weapon) spear-throwing device.
		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.
		The woomera could be used as a shield for protection against (A long pointed rod used as a weapon) spears and (A curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower) boomerangs.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wo/woomera.htm (270 words)

	The Advertiser: What killed the Woomera babies [ 07may03 ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Questions about the deaths of the babies at Woomera have arisen in the wake of new fears the British nuclear tests have caused genetic defects and multiple cancers in the families of servicemen posted to Maralinga.
		Woomera was well-established as a base to test British long-range missiles when the nuclear tests moved to Emu Field, 480km to the northwest and then to Maralinga, 400km to the west.
		Woomera is believed to have been exposed to further radioactive contamination by another series of tests known as the "minor trials", when at least another 300 nuclear devices were detonated at Maralinga.
	www.theadvertiser.news.com.au /printpage/0,5942,6406997,00.html (520 words)

	Woomera Village
		The word "woomera" was decided upon as it meant a spear thrower - a device made out of a flat piece of wood with a wooden peg at one end.
		The spear would be mounted on the woomera and both spear and woomera held in one hand and parallel to the line of sight.
		The history of Woomera's past is on show at the Woomera Heritage Centre in the Oasis Community Centre and at the Aircraft and Missile Display Park which is in the centre of the village.
	homepage.powerup.com.au /~woomera/town.htm (570 words)

	A description of the Woomera protocol
		The Woomera server is invoked with a parameter that causes it to load a C++ or C "plugin" module at runtime from a Windows DLL or Unix.so file.
		The Woomera server is invoked with a parameter that causes it run an arbitrary shell command, which is then executed with a Woomera connection as stdin/stdout.
		Woomera commands, responses and events all have the same format consisting of a command line, followed by an optional MIME table and an optional entity body.
	www.voxgratia.org /docs/woomera_desc.html (1591 words)

	Welcome to Woomera - Reviews - www.theage.com.au
		Woomera's contradictions, as Thomas' documentary highlights, are many and varied.
		Woomera's glory days were short-lived and the town now faces an uncertain future.
		Woomera's future now lies with multinational company BAE systems, whose job, according to Thomas, "is to cut the lawns, keep the water flowing, but at the same time market the place to overseas weapons companies, the military and science organisations".
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/11/03/1099362183978.html?from=moreStories (858 words)

	History of Woomera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		During the first decade and a half of operation at Woomera, Britain and Australia used the massive industrial complex at Salisbury, near Adelaide, South Australia as the backbone of the Weapons Research Establishment (WRE).
		More recently, Woomera's role has changed from a support base for a rocket range and defence research and development, to that of a residential and supports area for the Joint Defence Facility at Nurrungar, which was established in 1970.
		Woomera is truly a multinational community with many cultures represented.
	www.picknowl.com.au /homepages/dacarruthers/woomhist.html (816 words)

	Testing Rockets at Woomera Rocket Range - SOSE/HSIE Years 11-12
		More recently, Woomera's role changed from a support base for a rocket range and defence research and development, to that of a residential and support area for the Joint United States-Australian Defence Facility at Nurrungar, which was established in 1970.
		Woomera was until recently also the location of a remote detention centre for asylum seekers, and who were seeking refugee status.
		Woomera was developed as a missile testing area after the end of World War 2, when Australia had feared invasion, and when various parts of the country had been bombed.
	www.australiansatwork.com.au /rocket/rocket_so11-12.php (719 words)

	Woomera Refugees' Day in Court : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Following the protests at the Woomera Detention Centre over Easter during which 30 refugees escaped, the first 8 asylum seekers who have been charged by the Australian Commonwealth Government for being unlawfully at large under the Immigration Act 197a appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court today.
		Following the protests at the Woomera Detention Centre over Easter during which 30 refugees escaped, the first 8 asylum seekers who have been charged by the Australian Commonwealth Government for being unlawfully at large under the Immigration Act 197a appeared in Courtroom 3 of the Adelaide Magistrates Court today.
		We have also heard via the detained refugees that the recent inspection of the Woomera Detention Centre by representatives of the United Nations Human Rights Commission was a 'success' in so far as the recent paint job and planted trees fooled no-one, and that the inspectors spent many hours talking directly with refugees.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=130814 (995 words)

	Woomera IRPC to Close - Immigration Media Release 14/2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Woomera centre will be mothballed in April 2003 but will be maintained as a contingency centre with the capacity to be put back into use at short notice.
		The very successful Woomera Residential Housing Project (RHP) will remain open and all residents will be offered the opportunity to stay in the Project or move to Baxter with their partners.
		Arrangements will be made for women and children in the Woomera RHP and their families and partners in the Baxter centre to be able to visit each other on a regular basis until a new project is established.
	www.minister.immi.gov.au /media_releases/ruddock_media03/r03014.htm (330 words)

	CNN.com - New suicide bids at Woomera - January 23, 2002
		WOOMERA, Australia (CNN) -- Protest action at the Australian detention camp of Woomera is intensifying with three detainees attempting to hang themselves from a perimeter fence overnight.
		About 60 hunger strikers in Woomera have sewn their lips together with cotton and more than 200 others have been refusing food and water as part of a protest action over the slow processing of protection visas and the mandatory imprisonment of illegal immigrants.
		The five children to be definitely removed are aged 14 and under and are in Woomera without their parents.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/01/23/aust.woomera.suicide (659 words)

	CNN.com - New suicide bids at Woomera - January 23, 2002
		WOOMERA, Australia (CNN) -- Protest action at the Australian detention camp of Woomera is intensifying with three detainees attempting to hang themselves from a perimeter fence.
		The Woomera hunger strikers have now been joined by at least 35 detainees at the Maribyrnong Detention Center, in the Victoria state capital Melbourne, according to a refugee spokesperson on Wednesday.
		Many of the 800-plus Woomera detainees have been imprisoned for more than a year in the desert facility and no current inmates have been there for less than five months.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/01/23/woomera.hanging (659 words)

	Woomera History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Woomera is located on a stony plateau which is geologically very old, composed of Pre-Cambrian rock (called gibber stone by the local people) and red salty clay.
		Most of the trees and shrubs in the village area are products of Woomera's Arboretum where thousands of plants have been tested during the history of the village for suitability to the local soil and climate.
		Woomera is located 180km north west of Port Augusta and approximately 480km from the city of Adelaide.
	members.aol.com /copednundr/woomhist.htm (1084 words)

	theage.com.au - Space countdown for Woomera
		The first of Mr Bennett's two rockets for the Woomera flights, called Nova, is 11 metres long and weighs 760 kilograms.
		Mr Bennett said he and a colleague visited the Woomera range last week and had discussions with British Aerospace, the Adelaide-based corporation that operates the facility for the Australian Defence Department.
		Woomera, developed as a missile testing site, is still used in rocketry and space research.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/04/13/1018333431411.html (671 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Australia's detention centre in the desert
		Woomera - the largest, with just under 1,000 inhabitants - is also perhaps the most remote.
		Surrounded by barbed wire and several layers of fencing, it is situated in a former rocket testing range in the barren and dusty South Australian desert, almost 300 miles away from Adelaide.
		Woomera has suffered more incidents than most; Canberra says there have been eight fire-related incidents there in the past month.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1719808.stm (361 words)

	Abstract Dynamics: Escape from Woomera
		Woomera being the place where the Australian government is keeping you prisoner.
		We are a team of game developers, digital artists and media professionals, committed to the videogame medium - not merely as a vehicle for conceptual new media art or profit-driven entertainment - but as a free, independent art form in its own right.
		The creation of Escape From Woomera is part of a larger goal: the rise of a counter-culture of developers and gamers who create and engage with game art outside the mainstream corporate industry.
	www.abstractdynamics.org /archives/2003/10/16/escape_from_woomera.html (323 words)

	Welcome to Woomera, South Australia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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)

	CNN.com - Woomera inmates call off hunger strike - January 30, 2002
		A spokesman for the Immigration Department confirmed to CNN that the department had been advised by the negotiating team that the strike was over, but he could not be "100 percent sure" if that meant all protest actions by all detainees had ceased.
		More than 250 detainees at the Woomera camp had been on hunger strike for 16 days in protest against the slow processing of protection visas by the Australian government and the mandatory imprisonment of all illegal immigrants, including women and children.
		At one stage more than 60 of the detainees had sewn their lips together with cotton, while a group of nine youths were threatening to commit suicide if they were not released from the camp by Wednesday evening.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/01/29/aust.detainees (707 words)

	noborder.org \| camping2002 \| woomera
		Our humanity is obliterated in Woomera, in the concentration camp, by missiles, by nuclear weapons, by toxic waste, by colonisation, by capitalism, by fear and division.
		Woomera 2002 will be a kaleidoscope of cascading autonomous actions, media streams and screenings, workshops, discussions and happenings.
		We encourage everyone to communicate and publicise Woomera 2002, their views and their plans for actions in their own way.
	www.noborder.org /camps/02/aus/display.php?id=73 (386 words)

	Walkabout - Woomera
		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.walkabout.com.au /theage/fairfax/locations/SAWoomera.shtml (907 words)

	Woomera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Woomera was established in 1947 as a testing station for the British programme of experimental rockets.
		Models, rocket-relics and plenty of pictures emphasize Woomera’s value as a satellite launch site and joint initiatives with NASA, but the reasons for the creation of the Prohibited Area – weapons-testing and the British-run 1950s atomic bomb tests, contaminated dust from which is still being scraped up and vitrified – are skirted around.
		The welcoming Woomera Travellers Village on Wirruna Avenue is a good alternative – camping on the lawn is preferable to the beds in the dreary ex-barracks.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/southaustralia/woomera.asp (389 words)

	Space Today Online - Spaceports Around the World - Australia
		This village with a population of 1,805 is a small town in the north of South Australia managed by the Australian Department of Defence.
		Woomera also operated as a NASA tracking station until 1972.
		Sparsely populated Woomera has useful infrastructure, is usually cloud free, and would be a good location for access to polar orbits.
	www.spacetoday.org /Rockets/Spaceports/Australia.html (1420 words)

	Bishop says Woomera conditions "justified mass protest"
		But the actions of almost 1000 people who travelled to Woomera over Easter have been praised by Auxiliary Catholic Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn Pat Power who said the protest rightly drew attention to Australia's cruel treatment of asylum-seekers.
		Bishop Power said in the case of Woomera, "conscientious acts of civil disobedience may be warranted - even morally required".
		Meanwhile Immigration Minister Mr Ruddock said he had just received immigration intelligence from Indonesia suggesting asylum-seekers saw the protests as a groundswell in support for their arrival in Australia and people smugglers were using it as a selling point.
	www.cathnews.com /news/204/36.php (300 words)

	Herald Sun: Labor applauds Woomera closure (archived) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He said all asylum seekers in the Woomera centre would be transferred to the Baxter facility, near Port Augusta, by mid-April.
		Ms Gillard said she was pleased the alternative detention trial in Woomera, where women and their children live in supervised, residential housing, would remain open.
		Residents have the option of staying in Woomera or moving to Baxter to be with their husbands.
	www.heraldsun.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5478,6115877^1702,00.html (344 words)

	Australia - Woomera - Immigration - Asylum Seekers - Worldpress.org
		And it was very emotive and you had to remember there was an election around the corner.” Brown found it “barbaric” that 60-odd people in Woomera had sewn their lips together as a protest, including, allegedly, one or two children whose parents inserted the stitches.
		Bernice Pfitzner, who worked at Woomera for nine months and is a former South Australian Liberal MP, expressed concern this week on how the government was handling people at the center, saying they were going mad after six months there, in the absence of information on their applications.
		Woomera opened in November 1999, and yet its first releases were not until June 2000, after the mass breakouts and protests at three detention centers.
	www.worldpress.org /Asia/402.cfm (2022 words)

	$2m Woomera fire destroys detention blocks - smh.com.au
		The fire at Woomera destroyed two accommodation blocks, five toilet blocks and two mess halls, the Department of Immigration, Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) said.
		Federal police are investigating the Baxter and Port Hedland fires but refugee advocates say they are inevitable given the long periods of detention that asylum seekers are subject to while their claims were being processed.
		The overnight fire at Woomera had left the Mike and November accommodation blocks, comprising 33 interlocked huts, "unusable", a DIMIA spokesman said.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/12/31/1041196631836.html (420 words)

	ZNet \| Activism \| Account Of Demonstrations At Woomera Detention Center
		This argument was typically taken up by the media and the government who attempted to paint protesters as irresponsible and unconcerned for the welfare of refugees, and foster a split between radical and conservative wings of the movement.
		We had pointed out that this movement we were part of was started by people within the camps-the first Woomera breakout was the event that had spurred on protests outside the camps.
		We had pointed to the fact that inside Woomera people were organized, that many were serious activists before they arrived here and that they, like us, were capable of making decisions about how and when they were to protest, and of evaluating the possible ramifications.
	www.zmag.org /content/Activism/whyte_woomera.cfm (2072 words)

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