Today Friday 11 August 2000 Transcripts on this website are created by an independent transcription service. The ABC does not warrant the accuracy of the transcripts. ABC Online users are advised to listen to the audio provided on this page to verify the accuracy of the transcripts. This morning, in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern, a special task force of over 100 police officers swept through the blocks which are regarded as the most important urban Aboriginal sites.
Redfern police defends the raids, asserts the move was drug and crime related.
Justice Maurice O'Loughlin of the Federal Court is in the middle of a big day, he will deliver his judgement in the benchmark Stolen Generations compensation test case in Darwin this afternoon. Lorna Cubillio and Peter Gunner were seperated from their families and placed in institutions under the Commonwealth Aboriginal Ordinance which was implented in 1918 and existed for nearly 40 years. The Federal Labor frontbencher Cheryl Kernot has lobbed another grenade into the Party's IVF debate defying her leader Kim Beazley by calling for an individual conscience vote rather than caucus solidarity. The intervention has boosted the cause of Labor members who support John Howard's proposed legislation. On Wednesday, Mark MacDonald took his two boys and a girl, on a fishing trip near Mackay in central Queensland.