Uranium mining companies us the language barrier to manipulate Australia’s Aboriginals
the communities feel the mining companies are using language barriers to manipulate them.
Miners exploiting language barriers: traditional owners ABC Online Indigenous – News, 12 July 2010, Traditional owners at the centre of controversial plans to mine uranium in the Northern Territory say they feel under siege from the Central Land Council and mining companies.
Harts Range woman, Mitch, who has been given permission to speak on behalf of other traditional owners, says the communities feel the mining companies are using language barriers to manipulate them.
Mitch says her family does not have up-to-date information about research being done on the impact of uranium.
“They’re feeling under siege, not only from Central Land Council pushing them that they’re going to get jobs and royalties out of it, but they’re really strong on that they have no language words to translate uranium or radon gases or plutonium,” she said.
“They have no words to translate that back. And they’re really feeling that uranium, in their language, is poison.”
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