Antinuclear

Australian news, and some related international items

Part of Defence Department’s Woomera Prohibited Area returned to Aborigines

Map-MaralingaDefence force releases last Maralinga ancestral lands to traditional owners  theguardian.com, Wednesday 5 November 2014

Former weapons testing range at Maralinga in outback South Australia is returned to Maralinga Tjarutja people Traditional owners finally have full access to their homelands at Maralinga after the defence force gave up its weapons testing range on Wednesday. Maralinga, in the South Australian outback, was the site of British atomic bomb testing from 1955 to 1963 and was contaminated by nuclear waste.

The federal government formally acknowledged the excision of an area of the Maralinga Tjarutja lands from the defence department’s Woomera Prohibited Area in a ceremony at Maralinga Village on Wednesday…….http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/05/defence-force-releases-last-maralinga-ancestral-lands-to-traditional-owners

November 6, 2014 - Posted by | aboriginal issues, South Australia

No comments yet.

Leave a comment