# Roundup: Sydney Alliance, Harry Edwards, displaced people

> Last month an emerging advocacy group, the Sydney Alliance, claimed its first victory when the local council agreed to install seven drop-off zones near Liverpool’s medical centres.

26 October 2012 · News

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## [Win for the people as Liverpool council installs medical drop-off zones](https://www.smh.com.au/nsw/win-for-the-people-as-liverpool-council-installs-medical-dropoff-zones-20121025-2888n.html)

Last month an emerging advocacy group, the Sydney Alliance, claimed its first victory when the local council agreed to install seven drop-off zones near Liverpool’s medical centres.

## [Harry Edwards, 1927-2012](https://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/uniting-force-in-economics-20121025-28831.html)

Uniting force in economics.

## [Over 72 million people are forcibly displaced globally](https://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/17224)

Over 72 million people, more than one in every hundred of the world’s citizens, are now forcibly displaced, says a new report released by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).