Australian Government knew that Aboriginals were exposed to radiation at Maralinga
Paul Langley supplies extracts from Hansard Federal Parliamentary Hansard, ABORIGINES AT MARALINGA : EXPOSURE TO RADIATION (QUESTION NO. 5786….) ABORIGINES AT MARALINGA : EXPOSURE TO RADIATION (QUESTION NO. 5786)
Mr Uren asked questions about Aboriginals’ exposure to radioactive fallout from the atomic bomb testing, and also about the “cleanup”- and got very unsatisfactory answers.
“….in actual fact Aboriginal people were employed by those in charge of Operation Brumby and it is well established within the families of the people so employed that sickness and premature death resulted. The British in charge of the alleged clean up (discovered in 1984 to be anything but a clean up, more of a ploughing of the desert without dust mitigation which resulted in more danger, not less) did not inform the Aboriginal they engaged of the danger involved nor did they provide protective equipment to the workforce. This can be confirmed by ALRM….” http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/federal-hansard-entry-2186-senate-14-may-1980-questions-without-notice-maralinga-atomic-tests/
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