NSW: Tent Embassy organiser given one week to negotiate

AAP General News (Australia)
08-17-2000
NSW: Tent Embassy organiser given one week to negotiate

An Aboriginal Tent Embassy organiser has been given one week to negotiate with a council
over its place in a park, before she's banned from the site.

The South Sydney Council has won an injunction stopping ISABELL COE from entering Victoria
Park, Camperdown, in Sydney's inner west, where the embassy was erected next to Sydney
University on July 14.

Justice DENNIS COWDROY suspended the injunction until noon next Wednesday so Ms COE
and the council could enter negotiations to regularise the activities on the site.

The council went to the New South Wales Land and Environment Court seeking an interlocutory
injunction against Ms COE.

TIM ROBERSTON, for the council, told the court that since the embassy had been set
up the number of tents around it had mushroomed to 26, and there have been complaints
from neighbouring residents, the university and park users.

He said the council's concerned about the provision of showers and toilets at the site,
noise levels, vehicles driving through the park and the amenity of the park for other
users.

Ms COE addressed the court and said it was part of the genocidal process against Aborigines
in Australia.

Outside court Ms COE said she would negotiate with the council but wouldn't move the
embassy to another site.

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