Sanko Harvest oil spill off coast of Esperance remembered 30 years on
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The ship struck the reef at about 3:20am on February 14, 1991.
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The morning of Valentine s Day 1991 was always going to be memorable for young Esperance harbour master Ian Harrod.
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Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Sanko Harvest disaster off the coast of Esperance
700 tonnes of bunker oil and 30,000 tonnes of fertilizer spilled into the ocean, sparking a massive clean-up effort
Many of those involved have positive memories of the disaster, which galvanised the community
The night before, he had met the woman he would one day marry.
Gay rights in NZ: Okay Boomer author Joanne Drayton on our grim history
6 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Peter Jackson s film Heavenly Creatures told the true story of Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme s murder of Pauline s mother.
Peter Jackson s film Heavenly Creatures told the true story of Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme s murder of Pauline s mother.
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In this extract from Okay, Boomer, a book about the 1960s in New Zealand, author Joanne Drayton explains how homosexuality was seen as a perverse crime - a view reinforced by society s reaction to two senseless killings.
The dynamite decade of the 1960s left my nuclear family unexploded. Its pyrotechnics came later. The revolutions that were taking place globally in fashion, recreational drugs, clubs and counter-culture; human rights and street protests; consumerism; festivals; and alternative communities these passed us by.
When Cedric Robinson’s
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition first appeared in 1983, it was far from an instant classic. Aside from a couple of extended reviews that focused on Robinson’s critique of Marxism, most academic mentions were cursory, hardly bothering with the more challenging aspects of his argument. Coming as it did on the heels of Black Power–era debates over whether Marxism was appropriate for Black struggle, movement intellectuals did engage and debate the book. However, its reception among this crowd was complicated by the fact that it didn’t wholly validate the competing claims of either Black Marxists or Black nationalists despite some in both camps who argued that the book supported their views.
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6:00 AM January 27, 2021
Cambridgeshire s public health director Dr Liz Robin to retire at the end of April
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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s director of public health will retire at the end of April, after delaying her plans so she could continue to lead public health through the challenging winter period.
Dr Liz Robin, 60, became the first joint director of public health for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough in 2015 and originally planned to retire in January. My successor will be joining a fantastic team, which has worked tirelessly to support communities across the area to prevent the spread of Covid-19 infection, and to bring outbreaks under control when they occur, she said.
Calls to review parking survey linked to Chesham development as locals dispute claims Paradigm seeks to tear down the existing garages, and in their place build two pairs of semi-detached homes across two plots, creating four new ‘affordable properties’ each with two bedrooms, a private garden and three (or more) parking spaces. There are presently 25 garages split between two plots (19 on one, six on the other), with each accessible by Five Acres. Cllr MacBean claimed a highways report “does not accurately reflect the parking situation in that part of Chesham”. She added residents had provided “photographic evidence” that 15 of the garages contain vehicles, despite claims by the developer they are ‘not in use’.