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	<title>Botany Bay and Catchment Alliance</title>
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	<description>Protecting Environment = Protecting People</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Environmental Defenders Organisation (EDO) WORKSHOP</title>
		<link>http://www.botanybay.info/2008/07/17/environmental-defenders-organisation-edo-workshop</link>
		<comments>http://www.botanybay.info/2008/07/17/environmental-defenders-organisation-edo-workshop#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LyndaNewnam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[ Saturday, 16 August 2008; 1230 to 1700. ] 
 INVITATION TO BBACA SUPPORTERS
to attend EDO workshop to learn more about the environmental legislation, eg. EPBC Act as well as how Part 3A of the NSW State Planning Legislation compromises the State's environmental protection legislation.
to be held:  Rainbow Room, Sutherland Entertainment Centre, Eaton Street, Sutherland.
Contact &#38; RSVP:  Sutherland Environment Centre - info@ssec.org.au]]></description>
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		<title>RAPS MAY/JUNE NEWSLETTER</title>
		<link>http://www.botanybay.info/2008/06/11/raps-mayjune-newsletter</link>
		<comments>http://www.botanybay.info/2008/06/11/raps-mayjune-newsletter#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LyndaNewnam</dc:creator>
		
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R A P S Residents Against Polluting Stacks Inc, Sydney NSW Australia www.nostack.8m.com
IMPORTANT NEWS&#8230;..IMPORTANT NEWS&#8230;&#8230;IMPORTANT NEWS&#8230;&#8230;IMPORTANT NEWS
MAY/JUNE 2008 NEWSLETTER
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


RAPS MEETS AGAIN WITH  RTA ENGINEERS

At our meeting with the RTA this week, we were pleased to find that plans for the ceiling mounted trial and the provision of flexibility at the Bexley North end of the tunnel are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of defined community engagement processes</title>
		<link>http://www.botanybay.info/2008/05/05/the-importance-of-defined-community-engagement-processes</link>
		<comments>http://www.botanybay.info/2008/05/05/the-importance-of-defined-community-engagement-processes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 02:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LyndaNewnam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Community engagement is not a magic wand that can be waved to make all parties happy. If community engagements are not conducted in good faith and do not fully engage the community, they can be perceived as cynical and manipulative exercises. They may also be seen as tokenism responding to dominant voices and ignoring the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Hour 2008 at Port Botany - Business as Usual</title>
		<link>http://www.botanybay.info/2008/04/01/earth-hour-2008-at-port-botany</link>
		<comments>http://www.botanybay.info/2008/04/01/earth-hour-2008-at-port-botany#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LyndaNewnam</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>National Heritage is Bondi Beach but not Botany Bay</title>
		<link>http://www.botanybay.info/2008/01/25/national-heritage-is-bondi-beach-but-not-botany-bay</link>
		<comments>http://www.botanybay.info/2008/01/25/national-heritage-is-bondi-beach-but-not-botany-bay#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LyndaNewnam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Botany Bay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You have to question the wisdom that lists Bondi Beach on the National Heritage Register but omits Botany Bay. 
Sure Bondi is a tourist icon but in terms of national identity, culture, historical significance does it rank before Botany Bay.
According to the criteria by which the items on the list are judged &#8220;Australia&#8217;s national heritage comprises [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A TALE OF 2 CITIES STUCK IN THE 20th CENTURY</title>
		<link>http://www.botanybay.info/2008/01/25/a-tale-of-2-cities-stuck-in-the-20th-century</link>
		<comments>http://www.botanybay.info/2008/01/25/a-tale-of-2-cities-stuck-in-the-20th-century#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LyndaNewnam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Port Botany Expansion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an opinion piece prepared for publication in The Age.  The subject matter is the dredging of Port Phillip Bay but similar could be written about  local processes in regard to the Port Botany Expansion and projects like Desalination. 
BRUMBY BARGES ON
Mr. Brumby has over stepped the mark. The debate about channel deepening is not over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We have found the WMDs, it is climate change,&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.botanybay.info/2008/01/15/we-have-found-the-wmds-it-is-climate-change</link>
		<comments>http://www.botanybay.info/2008/01/15/we-have-found-the-wmds-it-is-climate-change#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LyndaNewnam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following article by Peter Christoff appears in The Age today.  Very timely considering the Business as Usual attitude (Channel Dredging in Port Phillip Bay and Desalination Plant) coming from the Victorian State Government.
January 15, 2008, The Age
 In a hundred years, the planet will be unrecognisable.
AFTER the hottest year on record for Victoria, and with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IPART Inquiry into Port Botany Transport Interface</title>
		<link>http://www.botanybay.info/2008/01/13/ipart-inquiry-into-port-botany-transport-interface</link>
		<comments>http://www.botanybay.info/2008/01/13/ipart-inquiry-into-port-botany-transport-interface#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LyndaNewnam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Port Botany Expansion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[IPART will be finalising its recommendations over the coming months.  Responses to the Draft recommendations can be read at www.ipart.nsw.gov.au (click on Other Industries).  IPART is yet to address the issue of empty containers and the need to increase Customs and AQIS examinations.  It recommends that the State Government ask for Auslink funding to fix [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BioBanking - Another Christmas Holiday Surprise - Consultation closes 01.02.08</title>
		<link>http://www.botanybay.info/2007/12/14/biobanking-another-christmas-holiday-surprise</link>
		<comments>http://www.botanybay.info/2007/12/14/biobanking-another-christmas-holiday-surprise#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LyndaNewnam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2002 BioBanking under the name Green Offsets was placed on exhibition by the EPA.  BBACA put in a submission(http://botanybay.info/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/submissiongreenoffsets.pdf ) and then kept asking for an acknowledgement and/or further information - we forwarded our request to Lis Corbyn on a few occasions and each time we were ignored.  When the determination for the Port Expansion was put in the public domain(October [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Australia Botany Bay Cable</title>
		<link>http://www.botanybay.info/2007/12/13/energy-australia-botany-bay-cable</link>
		<comments>http://www.botanybay.info/2007/12/13/energy-australia-botany-bay-cable#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LyndaNewnam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Botany Bay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[IT IS NOT JUST TASMANIA&#8216;S ENVIRONMENT THAT SHOULD BE PROTECTED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
We hear a lot about the Pulp Mill in Tasmania but in Botany Bay we also have dozens of species and communities protected under Commonwealth law.  Various marine species around Bare Island are included - the Weedy Sea Dragon, pipefishes, White&#8217;s Sea [...]]]></description>
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