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off Sydney Oil Drilling | Britain Helped in Oz Coup A television documentary tobe shown MI5 and MI6 to help overthrow the off Sydney on the A.B.C. in April claims that Whitlam government. Britain’s security services played a Pilger also claims that the former Exploratory oil and gas drillingissetto | major role in the Whitlam Governor-General Sir John Kerr had begin three nautical miles off the coast | Government's sacking in 1975. previously been associated with two of Sydney. John Pilger, producer of the right-winggroups, one CIA funded, and A decision is expected tobe made by | documentary “The Last Dream”, quotes __ the other a CIA front. the beginning of March on granting an | CIA sources describing Whitlam as a CIA involvement in the Whitlam exploration permit to drill the Sealion | “security riskin his own country’, after coup has been documented and even prospect, which is thought to stretch | Whitlam told Washington that US admitted. Whitlam did not learn that from Sydney to Port Hacking. InAugust | bases were not sacrosanct and that the Pine Gap wasa CIA base until one week last year the Federal and NSW Govern- | bases treaty, due for renewal one day before his dismissal, by which time ’ ments invited corporations to bid for | before Whitlam’s dismissal in 1975, Theodore Shackley of the CIA had des- drilling in the exploration zone, which | might not be extended. tabilised the government and millions stretches thirty miles out from the A Washington-based expert on de- of dollars had been transferred to the shore. fence and intelligence claims that doz- opposition coalition’s campaign funds “A major oil spill which floated in | ens of calls were made from the CIAto _ according to Vic. MP Joan Coxsedge. would render the coastline sterile,” ac- cording to Milo Dunphy, director of the Total Environment Centre. “It could wipe out marine life and cripple Sydney’s fishing industry.” The project can only be afforded by a big consortium or major oil company, and names of bidders are ‘confidential’. Selective AVA Blindness : ae pHARS According to a recent survey from Grif- fith University’s School of Australian Manned Mars N EW VIRUS and Environmental Studies, around 90% of farmers believe soil erosion is not Mission Mooted INFECTS a problem on their farms. In the same study, however, 47% consider erosion a | Earth’s longest-orbiting person, Soviet major problem on neighbouring farms | cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko, says a HUMANS and 88% believe it isa problem in their | manned Mars expedition is becoming area of the Darling Downs, where the | “more and more realistic”. Five farm workers in Argentina have study was made. Aviation Week and Space Technol- | been deliberately infected with a ge- Farmers adopt the same attitude to | ogy claimed in December that the White netically engineered virus in an un- soil erosion as most people do te ciga- | House and NASA were studying a So- | authorised experiment to test a vaccine rettes; they accept the data is probably | viet proposal tousea US space probe for | for bovine rabies. This was disclosed by correct, but say it doesn’t apply directly | ajoint US-Soviet-French exploration of | Mr Jorge Ahumada, an official in to them. Mars in the 1990s Argentina’s Health Ministry, to US environmental group the Foundation Wiha abg (a on Economic Trends. New 4 Coin The foundation said it was pressing The Federal Government is issuing a | the US National Institute of Health, Bicentennial $2 coin featuring a wild- | which helped fund the experiment, to flower on one side and the head and | tighten regulations against releasing shoulders of an Aboriginal against the | potentially dangerous new life forms Southern Cross on the other. into the environment. The replacement of the $2 note is The experiment was carried out in upsetting wool and wheat farmers be- | 1986 near Azul, 350 km south of Buenos cause the old note features John | Aires. This is the first time humans Macarthur, founder of the wool indus- | have been deliberately infected as a try, and John Farrer who developed | resultofavirusfrom recombinant DNA disease-resistant Australian wheat. research. NEXUS New Times Four - Autumn 1988 3 NEXUS NEWS Oil Drilling | Britain Helped in Oz Coup A television documentary tobe shown MI5 and MI6 to help overthrow the off Sydney on the A.B.C. in April claims that Whitlam government. Britain’s security services played a Pilger also claims that the former Exploratory oil and gas drillingissetto | major role in the Whitlam Governor-General Sir John Kerr had begin three nautical miles off the coast | Government's sacking in 1975. previously been associated with two of Sydney. John Pilger, producer of the right-winggroups, one CIA funded, and A decision is expected tobe made by | documentary “The Last Dream”, quotes __ the other a CIA front. the beginning of March on granting an | CIA sources describing Whitlam as a CIA involvement in the Whitlam exploration permit to drill the Sealion | “security riskin his own country’, after coup has been documented and even prospect, which is thought to stretch | Whitlam told Washington that US admitted. Whitlam did not learn that from Sydney to Port Hacking. InAugust | bases were not sacrosanct and that the Pine Gap wasa CIA base until one week last year the Federal and NSW Govern- | bases treaty, due for renewal one day before his dismissal, by which time ’ ments invited corporations to bid for | before Whitlam’s dismissal in 1975, Theodore Shackley of the CIA had des- drilling in the exploration zone, which | might not be extended. tabilised the government and millions stretches thirty miles out from the A Washington-based expert on de- of dollars had been transferred to the shore. fence and intelligence claims that doz- opposition coalition’s campaign funds “A major oil spill which floated in | ens of calls were made from the CIAto _ according to Vic. MP Joan Coxsedge. would render the coastline sterile,” ac- cording to Milo Dunphy, director of the Total Environment Centre. “It could wipe out marine life and cripple Sydney’s fishing industry.” The project can only be afforded by a big consortium or major oil company, and names of bidders are ‘confidential’. Selective . Wig A Relea Blindness : ae pHARS According to a recent survey from Grif- fith University’s School of Australian N EW VIRUS Manned Mars and Environmental Studies, around 90% of farmers believe soil erosion is not Mission Mooted INFECTS a problem on their farms. In the same study, however, 47% consider erosion a | Earth’s longest-orbiting person, Soviet major problem on neighbouring farms | cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko, says a HUMANS and 88% believe it isa problem in their | manned Mars expedition is becoming area of the Darling Downs, where the | “more and more realistic”. Five farm workers in Argentina have study was made. Aviation Week and Space Technol- | been deliberately infected with a ge- Farmers adopt the same attitude to | ogy claimed in December that the White netically engineered virus in an un- soil erosion as most people do te ciga- | House and NASA were studying a So- | authorised experiment to test a vaccine rettes; they accept the data is probably | viet proposal tousea US space probe for | for bovine rabies. This was disclosed by correct, but say it doesn’t apply directly | ajoint US-Soviet-French exploration of | Mr Jorge Ahumada, an official in to them. Mars in the 1990s. Argentina’s Health Ministry, to US environmental group the Foundation Wiha ab a. on Economic Trends. New p44 Coin The foundation said it was pressing The Federal Government is issuing a | the US National Institute of Health, Bicentennial $2 coin featuring a wild- | which helped fund the experiment, to flower on one side and the head and | tighten regulations against releasing shoulders of an Aboriginal against the | potentially dangerous new life forms Southern Cross on the other. into the environment. The replacement of the $2 note is The experiment was carried out in upsetting wool and wheat farmers be- | 1986near Azul, 350 km south of Buenos cause the old note features John | Aires. This is the first time humans Macarthur, founder of the wool indus- | have been deliberately infected as a try, and John Farrer who developed | resultofa virus from recombinant DNA di istant Australian wheat. research. es Four - Autumn 1988 3 Selective Blindness New Virus INFECTS HUMANS New $2 Coin 2 Oe Manned Mars