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Australian govt imposing nuclear waste dump on aboriginal land

a proposed measure before the parliament has deleted the use of the Australian Defence Force land in the Northern Territory,

Aboriginal landowners oppose nuclear waste dump in Northern Territory International Business Times, By Xien Jana Vencio | April 27, 2010Aboriginal landowners in the Northern Territory are up in arms against a government plan to construct the country’s first long-term nuclear waste storage facility on their territory.

Diane Stokes, an indigenous woman from the Warumungu and Warlmanpa tribes in the Northern Territory, said they would not allow the construction of a radioactive waste dump at Muckaty Station, a former cattle station some 300 kilometres north of Tennant Creek.

Speaking at a public meeting in Melbourne to discuss the project, Stokes said nobody in Northern Territory want the nuclear waste storage facility on their tribal lands……a proposed measure before the parliament has deleted the use of the Australian Defence Force land in the Northern Territory,

Aboriginal landowners oppose nuclear waste dump in Northern Territory – International Business Times

April 30, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA, wastes | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, nuclear