Blacks and Whites gather together against Muckaty Nuclear Waste Dump Plan
Alyawarr, Anungu (APY lands) Warlpiri, Anmatjirra, Arrente, Warramungu, NSW Land Council people – we are now joining together to make a stand at Uluru and will be calling on our Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal friends, unions and churches to stand with us.
Time to make a stand, Tennant & District Times 12 March 2010, – RICHARD DOWNS, SPOKESPERSON FOR THE ALYAWARR WALK-OFF CAMP. Last week Richard Downs, spokesperson for the Alyawarr Walk Off Camp, wrote to the Northern Land Council Chairman, Kim Hill, regarding the consultation process which eventuated in the nomination of Muckaty Station as the site for a nuclear dump. This is what he wrote: “…..
You and your organisation should be embarrassed hiding behind legislation that suspends the Aboriginal Land Rights Act (1976).
You know people have no rights, under Howard’s and now Rudd’s dump laws, to challenge you in court and say you have failed to consult properly.
What a disgrace that a Land Council could be part of drafting and supporting laws that denies Land Rights to Aboriginal people.
Why support a waste dump on an area where there is earth tremor occurrence?…..Why should the people at Muckaty have to give up their land for a nuclear dump in exchange for new housing?……Alyawarr, Anungu (APY lands) Warlpiri, Anmatjirra, Arrente, Warramungu, NSW Land Council people – we are now joining together to make a stand at Uluru and will be calling on our Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal friends, unions and churches to stand with us.
The Alyawarr people stand with the people of Muckaty – for Land Rights not nuclear dump sites.
Time to make a stand – Opinion – Letters to the Editor – General – Tennant & District Times
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