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Once again, Australian government wages nuclear war on Aboriginal people

The plan to turn South Australia into the world’s nuclear waste dump has been met with near-unanimous opposition from Aboriginal people. The Royal Commission acknowledged strong Aboriginal opposition...

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Greg Ward, Chad Jacobi, Nigel McBride, Jason Kuchel, Michael Penniment...

Bananas, brazil nuts and some other foods contain radioactive potassium-40 — but in extremely low doses. Potassium-40 in bananas has a specific activity of 71 ten millionths of a curie per gram....

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Indigenous opposition to the international waste dump plan

Nuclear waste dump case unravels, World News Report, 13 July 16 , Green Left By Renfrey Clarke  “……..Yankunytjatjara Native Title Aboriginal Corporation chairperson Karina Lester told a packed venue at...

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No Profit in Nuclear waste

A minimal safety margin requires that high level waste not be imported before an agreed licensed geological disposal site… High level nuclear waste disposal costs can double in a decade….. Dubious...

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Craig Wilkins, Conservation Council of South Australia, at parliamentary...

It is remarkable that the royal commission only used one consultant to do this. Basically, all this conversation, all this energy and momentum, is based on the work of one consultant. Surely we deserve...

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History of Cameco’s Yeelirrie uranium mining plan

WA EPA rejects proposed Yeelirrie uranium mine, Online Opinion,  By Mara Bonacci – posted Tuesday, 16 August 2016 “…….Yeelirrie is located 420 km north of Kalgoorlie in the mid-west region of WA, the...

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South Australia’s Sundrop Farms – desert solar powered agriculture

Desert farm grows 180,000 tomato plants using only sun and seawater http://www.mnn.com/your-home/organic-farming-gardening/stories/desert-farm-grows-180000-tomato-plants-using-only-sun-and-seawater...

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Australia desperately needs to discuss our poisoned military role – Pine Gap...

when China looks at Australia, it will see Australia as an American base “I think fundamentally we have to ask is that really the way we want to go. The signal we’re sending to Americans is that if...

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Menzies, Australia’s Maralinga shame, Aboriginal impacts – and can it happen...

One wonders if the interests of a ‘handful of natives’ might on some future occasion again be deemed subordinate to those of the dominant culture. Each of these explosions generated considerable...

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Helen Caldicott, Australian hero of nuclear-free New Zealand

Helen did not hold back, explaining that nuclear war means “blindness, burning, starvation, disease, lacerations, haemorrhaging, millions of corpses and an epidemic of disease”. Helen’s dramatic and...

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Legal obstacles – State,National, and International, to Australia importing...

Nuclear waste debate re-emerges in Australia. Moulis Legal 17.11.16 “…….A long history of talk but with little “legal” support South Australia’s proposal to encourage the world to export its high-level...

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How Australian mining companies and governments grab Aboriginal land

The aggressive neo-liberal land grab is dividing Aboriginal communities and even brothers. As one Traditional Owner in the Northern Territory told me recently, “these mining deals can give one or two...

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To promote mining (especially uranium) Australian government trashed the...

Government had made it clear that it wished to re-engage itself more directly in the control of community land through leasing options as well as to open up Aboriginal land for development and mining...

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Media secrecy allowed Australian territory to become highly radioactively...

Dig for secrets: the lesson of Maralinga’s Vixen B The Conversation, Liz Tynan, 26 July 13  “……lack of knowledge about the British nuclear tests in Australia is not surprising. The tests were not part...

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David Noonan dissects the draft ARPANSA Information for Stakeholders on...

Effectively this is the same draconian situation that existed under the earlier Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act 2005 introduced by the Howard government to override State and Territory...

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25 prominent South Australians sign up to Ben Heard’s Bright New Nuclear...

12 Dec 16 Australian nuclear lobbyists have had remarkable success in making themselves famous internationally, which is probably their main aim. . Barry Brook set this off, with a thin veil of...

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Australia’s responsibility to face up to its radioactive wastes produced at...

Storing the reprocessed nuclear fuel that is to come back from France at Lucas Heights seems the best of a poor set of alternatives. We are stuck with highly radioactive material for which we are...

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UNDEMOCRATIC NUCLEAR WASTE LAW DISEMPOWERS COMMUNITIES AND TRADITIONAL OWNERS

Friends of the Earth Australia is today releasing a detailed report on the National Radioactive Waste Management Act 2012 (NRWMA). The report ‒ written by Monash University fifth-year law student...

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A toxic legacy : British nuclear weapons testing in Australia

Australia’s hospitality, largesse and loyalty to Britain were not without their costs. Moreover, the sacrifices made by Australians on behalf of the ‘motherland’ were not equally borne. Whilst low...

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How Prime Minister Robert Menzies, and Sir Ernest Titterton sold us all out...

Australian tolerance of the British and their obsessive secrecy may be explained by the deference and loyalty to the ‘motherland’. Prime Minister Menzies identified so strongly with Britain that he...

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