McARTHUR RIVER MINE
Reporter Keira Jenkins travelled to Borroloola and the land nearly 100km south of Darwin on which mining giant Glencore’s McArthur River mine continues to make controversy, with traditional owners facing the poisoning of their water and wildlife.
“It is like a garden to Aboriginal people,” said Garawa elder Jack Green, who is now too scared of lead poisoning to fish in the river.
Locals say the lead and zinc mine has had an enormous impact and warn that even after it closes the environmental impact will need to be monitored for 1000 years.
Elder Josie Davey says: “I’m really worried about the mine, what they’ve done is not right. It’s my great-grandfather’s country and it hurts so much that I can’t even take my kids back there no more.”
BC OA hides storage behind metal panels in renovated Soho loft
Tall enclosures lined with patinated steel panels feature in this revamped apartment in New York City, designed by local architecture firm BC OA.
The project, called S-M-L Loft, is located in a cast-iron building dating from 1880 in the city s Soho district.
Compartmentalised spaces are concealed behind panels
New York firm BC OA renovated the rectangular 2,500-square-feet (232-square-metres) apartment in the historic building, dividing the unit into public and private areas.
One side encompasses a living room, dining room and kitchen, while the other holds the main suite, two guest rooms and a den.
For locals, the river and its banks are like a garden, having provided sustenance for generations.
It also has a strong spiritual significance for the local people.
Gudanji woman Josie Davey and her husband Jack Green, a Garawa man, used to fish along the banks of the river, not far from town.
Now the couple say they’re too worried to fish in their usual spots.
“All we know is that there could be something in this water,” Mr Green told The Point.
“We had a meeting here one time and they said you can eat the fish, but only as much of the size of your hand, because they reckon the fish does carry lead.”
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Nurse manager Sue McGrady receiving the Pfizer vaccine at Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Vaccination Hub on
Monday. Photo: Toby Zerna/Pool via AP
WITH the first Australian receiving a COVID-19 vaccination on Sunday, marking the beginning of the national vaccination rollout, leading Jewish medical experts have encouraged community members to “get vaccinated”.
Director of the Peter Doherty Institute Professor Sharon Lewin is co-chair of the National COVID-19 Health and Research Advisory Committee, providing advice on Australia’s health response to the Commonwealth chief medical officer. “It’s really important for everyone to get vaccinated because this is the way that we will end the disruption from COVID-19,” she told