Northern Land Council did not consult Aboriginal landowners on Muckaty nuclear waste dump plan
COMMENT “Real Fella – Anthropologists can effecitvely make up whatever they like to suit their employer. It’s not an objective process. If they go to one Traditional Owner who says its his land, and ignore 20 other Traditional Owners s saying its not, then he can produce a report saying its the land of the 1 Traditional Owner despite all the conflicting evidence. This is exactly what the NLC did in this case, it didnt actually talk to most TOs, and worst it didn’t even show people the report once it was written so that they could confirm it or not.”.
Nuclear dump in question, Northern Territory News, BONNY SYMONS-BROWN | June 7th, 2011 NORTHERN Land Council chief executive Kim Hill has not met with traditional owners of the area earmarked for Australia’s first nuclear waste dump.
The Gillard Government plans a dump site for low-level nuclear waste, most of which will stem from nuclear medicine, at Muckaty Station, near Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory.
Australian Greens senator Scott Ludlam asked Mr Hill and the council’s principal legal officer, Ron Levy, in a Senate estimates hearing last week if either of them had visited Tennant Creek or the surrounding areas to discuss the dump…….
COMMENT “Real Fella – Anthropologists can effecitvely make up whatever they like to suit their employer. It’s not an objective process. If they go to one TO who says its his land, and ignore 20 other TOs saying its not, then he can produce a report saying its the land of the 1 TO despite all the conflicting evidence. This is exactly what the NLC did in this case, it didnt actually talk to most TOs, and worst it didn’t even show people the report once it was written so that they could confirm it or not.”….http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2011/06/07/238491_ntnews.html
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