Woomera, South Australia residents in the mid-1960s. However, with the establishment of the USAF/ADF Joint Defence Communications Facility in 1969 at the nearby Nurrungar site, approximately south of Woomera, along with its 1100 permanent staff, the village population stabilized at around 4,500 people (including around 800 children). In the late 1990s, as the Nurrungar program was winding down, the ADF reassessed the role of Woomera in its future force structure. What became apparent to the ADF at that time was that the Woomera Test Range was the only land-based test range left in the Western world capable of testing the next (or what
Refugees in Hong Kong Refugees in Hong Kong Refugees in Hong Kong have formed historic waves arriving in the city due to wars in the region. More recently those seeking asylum or protection based on torture claims are a fast growing part of the city's population, soaring since 2004 due to changes in the legal system for considering asylum and torture claims mandated by local courts. As of September 2017, there are about 14,000 pending or failed asylum seekers or torture claimants, mostly from South Asia, awaiting processing, adjudication, appeals, or deportation after failure to gain refugee status. Almost none of the asylum seekers