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Floods & storms, 1983

9 stories in Sydney's papers

30 Jaar na watersnoodramp Vliegende storm viel samen met springtij

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 11 February 1983 · page 1

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Royal tour gets priority over flooded Alice Blacks

Tribune · Wednesday 23 March 1983 · page 3

"Eastern Arrernte mob been singing for rain. Big rain coming." So one old Aboriginal woman told me ten days before torrential rain hit Alice Springs last Wednesday, The rain caused one of the biggest floods the town has ever…

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Pine Gap staff back flooding of sacred sites

Tribune · Wednesday 4 May 1983 · page 3

ALICE SPRINGS: Traditional owners occupying sacred sites just north of Alice Springs have been encouraged by widespread…

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Le Cyclone Veena a Tahiti

Le Courrier Australien · Tuesday 10 May 1983 · page 1

PAPEETE. — Veena a balayé les iles de Tahiti, de Moorea et de Tetiaora tôt dans la matinée du 13 avril. Veena est le…

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With Prejudice: judge the bombing Ananda Marga case With Prejudice, directed by Esben Storm and with David Slingsby, Chris Hayward and Max Cullen. Showing at the Chauvel Cinema (Paddington Town Hall), Sydney and soon in other cities

Tribune · Wednesday 11 May 1983 · page 12

Courtroom dramas are a dime a dozen on the TV and occasionally surface in a cinema. There are obviously many addicts for such rather hackneyed projects and I must confess I'm one of those addicts -- at least for the…

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backblocks Delay on plan to flood sacred sites

Tribune · Wednesday 25 May 1983 · page 15

ALICE SPRINGS: Last week the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Clyde Holding wrote to NT Chief Minister Paul…

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Dam a flood of champagne on the Franklin

Tribune · Wednesday 6 July 1983 · page 6

Last Friday's High Court decision supporting the Commonwealth's right to intervene in the Franklin wilderness is a milestone victory for conservationists. But the struggle to protect Tasmania's rugged South West is…

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“We’re riot the Black People of Flood St!”

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 July 1983 · page 11

Michael says he was a Sunday School dropout at the age of five. From mixed Catholic/Protestant…

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Film Review Going Down: a revel in the urban jungle Going Down, a film directed by Haydn Keenan, starring Tracy Mann, David Argue, Verra Plevnik, Moira Maclaine-Cross, Esben Storm and Julie Barry. Photography by Malcolm Richards. Showing at Sydney's Roma Theatre, the Penrith

Tribune · Wednesday 3 August 1983 · page 12

Going Down is a brilliantly conceived and executed small budget Australian film. It is the story of 24 hours in the lives of four young women living in the inner city. Karlie, Jane, Jackie and Ellen are each confronting an…

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