Miners clash on native title
* Sarah-Jane Tasker
* From: The Australian
* November 13, 2009
THE joint-venture partners in what is expected to be Australia’s next uranium mine are locked in a legal dispute over a native title agreement on the project. (more…)
Secret $200k nuclear dump contract criticised ABC News By David Coady 22 Oct 09 The Greens are criticising the Federal Government for keeping secret a contract with traditional owners about a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory. (more…)
Maralinga Our Own Shame – UK Nuclear Bomb Tests in Australia – Care2 News Network (UK) by David Buchan 19 Oct 09 Britain actively used Australian soil and people to conduct it’s nuclear testing program during the 1950s and 1960s. (more…)
Appeal quashing ‘will hurt indigenous’
WA Today October 15, 2009
A High Court decision to quash an appeal by indigenous people against a company run by mining billionaire Andrew Forrest will limit the rights of indigenous people to negotiate with mining companies, an Aboriginal corporation says. (more…)
Australian Aboriginal Leader and Advocates Criticizes NT Intervention
By Cindy Trinh
Impunity Watch Reporter, Oceania 12 Oct 09
SYDNEY, Australia – Aboriginal elder Richard Downs, along with various political and legal adversaries, has accused the Australian government of racism against the aboriginal people. (more…)
Uranium development a sham Eastern Panorama Agnes Kgarshiing (India) 11 Oct 09
Cancer cases among Aboriginal people living near Australia’s biggest uranium mines is doubling, a study by the Federal Governments leading Indigenous Research body shows, (more…)
Dump racist intervention measures: QC WA Today Tara Ravens October 7, 2009 – A leading human rights lawyer says the federal government must rework or scrap racist elements of the intervention program in remote indigenous communities and honour Australia’s obligations under international law. (more…)
The dust that dare not speak its name WA Today September 30, 2009 Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, Elizabeth Farrelly “…………………For us, as for most of the world, central Australia might as well not exist. It is almost a paradigm of unthinkability. It’s Timbuktu. That’s why we do things like nuclear testing there. (more…)
Aboriginal ecology to be included in assessments
Amanda O’Brien | September 24, 2009
Article from: The AustralianABORIGINES are claiming a landmark victory after the West Australian government told BHP Billiton to incorporate their ecological knowledge into future land clearing at its giant Yeelirrie uranium prospect. (more…)
Indigenous people power challenges mining might
Eureka Street Moira Rayner September 22, 2009A mining registrar in Western Australia has a hard decision to make. The Martu Idja Banjima Native Title claimants — the Martidja Manyjima people of the Pilbara — want him to hear their challenge to BHP Billiton’s claim for more mining leases on 200 square kilometres of their traditional land. BHP Billiton doesn’t.
The Martidja Manyjima people have decided the damage to their responsibilities to the land of water degradation and destruction of sacred sites by the owners of the nearby massive Hope Downs mine is just too great.
They don’t want money, they want to limit the endless expansion of mining on their country…………….. The Martidja Manyjima people are just 200 extended families. They want to tell the registrar that the cumulative impact of mining on their country’s water resources (already pumping billions of gallons from the aquifer to expose the ore), as well as irreversible damage to their culture, has been and will be catastrophic…………
The Martidja Manyjima people are just 200 extended families. They want to tell the registrar that the cumulative impact of mining on their country’s water resources (already pumping billions of gallons from the aquifer to expose the ore), as well as irreversible damage to their culture, has been and will be catastrophic.
Indigenous people power challenges mining might – Eureka Street
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