One door opens another closes
2010-04-14
‘BIO-DIVERSE-CITY’
APRIL 2010
AT THE VANISHING POINT
565 KING ST NEWTOWN 2042
But don’t expect intelligent conversation.
Flying Blind
2010-04-14
‘ROCKIN THE BOAT’
JANUARY 2010
AT THE VANISHING POINT
565 KING ST NEWTOWN 2042
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“We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of 11 September—malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guilty.” George W Bush
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One flew over the cuckoo clocks canon fodder nest
2010-01-02
‘MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES’
WARD 17 & 18
CALLAN PARK, ROZELLE
DECEMBER 2009
Ludicrous Diversions and Canon Fodder
2009-12-28
‘TRAUMA PORN’
AT THE VANISHING POINT
565 KING ST NEWTOWN
DECEMBER 2009
‘Tavistock 707‘ (2007).
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Sydney Morning Herald 16 May 1985
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19850516&id=tkoRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NOgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2424,94369
accessed 24 January 2010
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Ylva Anna Maria Lindh (19 June 1957 – 11 September 2003)
“…Lindh criticised the 2003 invasion of Iraq, commenting that “a war being fought without support in the statutes of the United Nations is a major failure”. She also advocated greater respect for international law and human rights in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, criticising Ariel Sharon’s government in Israel, but also condemning Palestinian suicide bombings as “atrocities”. In a January 30, 2003, speech, she called on Israel to “end the occupation, give up settlements, and agree on a pragmatic solution to Jerusalem” and on the Palestinians to “do everything in their power to stop the terrorist acts, and take legal measures against those responsible” and to “produce reform, for security, but also for democracy and human rights”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Lindh
accessed 28 December 2009
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The Hon. (Frank) Francis John WALKER (1942 – )
Date of Birth: 07/07/1942
Member for Georges River: 13 Feb 1971 – 22 Feb 1988
Electorate description: Metropolitan, residential suburban. Located Sydney, southern. Principal suburbs: Lugarno, Mortdale, Oatley, Peakhurst, Penshurst, Riverwood. Area: 17.2 sq km Population: 41,840 Enrolment: 31,335 *Minister for Housing and Minister for the Arts 4 Jul 1986 25 Mar 1988
Member for Robertson: 1990 – 1996
Personal; Son of Jack William Walker, telephone technician, and Mary Doreen Walker. Married (1) Marilyn Duff on 31 March 1967 and had issue, 2 sons. (1993) Married (2) Pamela Anne Buchanan on 3 October 1996 and had no issue.
http://www.archive.org/details/FrankWalker-RichmondReport
FRANK WALKER: I feel tremendously guilty, you know, and I paid a terrible price. I lost two boys, and if a system had have been in place, I probably wouldn’t have lost those two boys. In fact, I’m sure I wouldn’t have. And so I’ve a tremendous burden that I’ve got to bear as a human being. But there’s a lot of people like me out there that are suffering the same thing.
MATTHEW CARNEY: Out of politics for nine years, Walker can now tell the hard truth that the mentally ill don’t count politically.
FRANK WALKER: It was the mindset of treasury officials who are not only about spending money on the technology I suppose, but they’re also about cutting costs. Well, these days cost cutting so that you can reduce taxes is the big thing in treasury. They’re not interested in the human costs at the end. They don’t care about mentally ill people or sick people. What they care about is the bottom line of their budget so they can give tax cuts. And so there’s this total lack of compassion, this hardnosed let’s look after ourselves and forget the poor and unfortunate…”
Four Corners – 19/09/2005: Transcript
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2005/s1463798.htm
8 of 9 9/04/2009 10:40 AM
8 of 9 9/04/2009 10:40 AM
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Australian lawyer and judge, was the first female Justice of the High Court of Australia…
accessed Sunday 11 July 2010
A graduate of Sydney University, the Hon Mary Gaudron was the first part-time student to win the University Medal in Law. Ms Gaudron was appointed by the New South Wales government in 1981 (the youngest ever appointed, and first female solicitor-general of an Australian jurisdiction) and held this office until appointment to the bench in 1987. She was the youngest judge ever appointed in Australia, and the first woman High Court judge.
accessed Sunday 11 July 2010
Five People Dead Of Radiation Related Cancers At Hunters Hill
Friday, 11 April 2008
“At least five former residents of Nelson Parade, Hunters Hill, the site of a former uranium smelter, are believed to have died of radiation related cancers, Member for Castle Hill Michael Richardson revealed today.
Three of the deaths are detailed in documents collected in the 1970s by former Federal Labor MP Tom Uren and held by the National Library in Canberra. The other two were revealed by former residents of the street, Katie and Greg McGrath, who were orphaned, along with their two siblings, in 1976, after their father, Fabian, and mother, Iris, died within nine months of one another, of stomach cancer and leukaemia respectively. Katie was just five years old…
accessed Sunday 4 July 2010
Ex-judge fled toxic address
Alexandra Smith
July 5, 2008
July 5, 2008
THE former High Court judge Mary Gaudron was forced to move her children from their Hunters Hill home in 1980 after a cancer cluster was discovered in the street that once housed a uranium smelter, an inquiry was told yesterday.
Almost 30 years after the family left Nelson Parade, her eldest daughter, Danielle, 42, has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, the parliamentary inquiry into the former smelter site has heard.
Yesterday Ms Gaudron’s former husband, Ben Nurse, told the inquiry the family lived at 11 Nelson Parade for six years and Danielle slept in the bedroom which has since been identified as having the highest levels of radiation.
Mr Nurse, an engineer, said he paid $30 for a certificate from the Department of Health in 1973 that declared his land “clear”, but 30 years later the house he built on the block was now deemed unfit for human habitation.
Peter and Michelle Vassiliou, who now own the house, are suing the State Government for failing to warn of the dangers…
Sunday 11 July 2010
How often can you buy residential property sited on top of a known uranium dump! Only on one street, in Godzown country, on rare earth.
Expressions of interest sought in 2009.
http://www.domain.com.au/Property/For-Sale/House/NSW/Hunters-Hill/?adid=2007414345
accessed Sunday 11 July 2010
“…NSW Health still owns the now vacant lots at numbers 7 and 9 Nelson Parade, but neither it nor the DECC could tell the inquiry where contaminated materials from the sites were sent after being removed in 1987.
“The records talk about it being removed and placed elsewhere but we don’t know precisely where it went to,” DECC regulation director Craig Lamberton said.
When challenged about the disposal of the waste by inquiry chairman, upper house MP Ian Cohen, Mr Lamberton said: “Well, it was (more than) 17 years ago.”
The inquiry was established after Peter and Michelle Vassiliou left their home at 11 Nelson Parade…
NSW Health deputy director general Kerry Chant told the inquiry that radiation testing around the neighbourhood would happen before, during and after the remediation of numbers 7 and 9.
Only then would it determine if remediation on adjoining properties was required…”
http://news.theage.com.au/national/location-of-radioactive-material-unknown-20080703-3121.html
accessed Sunday 11 July 2010
“…In 1910, Kelly’s smelter (Sydney Smelting Company) treated 1,500 tons of tin ore from various fields in NSW. The company commenced operations on the site in 1892 and was in production by 1895. It was established by Irishman Thomas Hussey Kelly (1830-1901) and continued by his son and grandson (also both named Thomas H. Kelly). It smelted both copper and tin ores. Uranium ore from Radium Hill in South Australia was also later processed, for extraction of radium, in 1911-1916 (the plant for this was off 5-11 Nelson Parade, perhaps on reclaimed land at base of the 10-12m high cliff adjoining Fern Bay). The foreshore along the bay has been reclaimed here largely with broken sandstone fill (perhaps from Woolwich Dock excavation?). The relationship of the radium plant to Kelly’s operations is not certain – was it a leaseholding(?).
Kelly was very prominent in mining matters and by 1901 was a significant shareholder or director in no fewer than twenty gold and copper mining ventures. The works closed at this site 1967 when the Company moved to Alexandria, and an option on its Woolwich land (12 acres) was gained by A.V. Jennings with the intention of using it for 147 home units, including three eight storey blocks of units. Hunter’s Hill Council opposed the Jennings plan and wanted the area to be dedicated as open space, however the Askin State government, with very high level involvement, supported the Jennings proposal.
After the smelter closed the area was sought for promotion of housing development, which was opposed by local residents. When unions refused to participate in bulldozing the site in 1971 this became the world’s first “Green Ban” (an outgrowth of the older term ‘black ban’). It is also thought that this perhaps provided inspiration for German activist Petra Kelly (note the surname … is this coincidental) that lead to the world’s first Greens Party, die Grunen in Germany. With the change of State government in 1977 it was announced that no development would be allowed at Kelly’s Bush…”
http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/geo-sitesH-I.htm
accessed Sunday 11 July 2010
Former uranium smelter site, Hunter’s Hill (Inquiry)
This inquiry is a completed Legislative Council inquiry conducted by the General Purpose Standing Committee No. 5. This Inquiry was established on 14 May 2008 by resolution of the House to inquire into and report on the Radium Hill uranium smelter site in Nelson Parade, Hunter’s Hill.
http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/committee.nsf/0/8C6EFA4FA782EDC5CA25744B0007DA3B
Hot off the Sees My Presses
2009-10-22
Trauma Porn delves into the murky relations between the antithetical positions of tragicomic irony and engaged humanism. This exhibition is part polemic, part autobiography, part self denunciation. It contains elements of loss and longing, of the manipulation of desire and the uncanny.
Gilbert
I know that reads quite wet. How would you spice it up?
seventeen minutes and seventeen seconds
2009-10-02
Actually thinking of taking the Cure’s A train to see the Cobra fitted with the Windsor small block V8… throw another witch on the Santa Klaus Barbie will ya Mo.
But this IS serious Mum.