AUDIO: Response of Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara women to Nuclear Commission
Rose and Karina Lester on Nuclear Commission http://www.papertracker.com.au/radio/rose-and-karina-lester-on-nuclear-commission/10 March 2015 .Interview with Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara interpretation Duration 45:25 | Recorded on 20 February 2015. | Download Audio (62.3 MB)
This interview is with Karina and Rose Lester about their response to Premier Weatherill’s establishment of a Royal Commission into the use of Nuclear Energy in South Australia.
Karina and Rose tell us about how nuclear energy has affected Aboriginal communities in the past and they share the direct experience of their own family.
They urge people to find out about the Commission and to get involved and to have their voices heard.
The interview responses are in Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara language, with short summaries provided in English.
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The Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission is full of contradictions and political spin (The Advertiser, 20/3/15).
Surely if there was a fuel cycle then we wouldn’t need a nuclear waste dump. In fact it is a nuclear fuel chain; dig it up, process it, use it, then dump the wastes in some cash-strapped state.
The terms of reference explicitly state that the military use of uranium is excluded. Yet a former high-ranking member of the military who is sympathetic to the nuclear industry is the commissioner.
The commissioner has urged people to keep an open mind but the terms of reference state that the commission can’t do that because it can only look at expanding the nuclear industry and not the opposite.
It is claimed that the commission will not recommend sites for a nuclear dump but it will investigate whether South Australia has suitable geography. So it won’t be in your backyard but it might be in the valley down the road.
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