‘Talking Straight Out’ exhibition celebrates Aboriginal women’s success in fight against nuclear waste dump

An invitation to the exhibition Talking Straight Out, Craig Wilkins
Chief Executive

Conservation SA is proud to be supporting a very special event, ‘Talking Straight Out’, at the Festival Centre on Thursday 15th October.

Just over a decade ago a group of senior Aboriginal women from Coober Pedy led a campaign against a proposed nuclear waste dump on their country. They not only stopped the toxic dump being built – their work won international acclaim and united many South Australians to a common cause.

This exhibition features images and insights from the successful Irati Wanti campaign.

We take our hats off to the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta now, as we did then. Their words and campaign continue to inspire us.

Where: The Lyrics Room, Adelaide Festival Centre, King William St

When: Thursday 15th October

Time: Doors open at 5pm. Inma and talks at 6pm
This is a free event, please RSVP here.

If you would like to find out more, please contact the organisers via iratiwanti@gmail.com

September 23, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | ACTION

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Australia, 2019, Director & Producer: John Mandelberg, Executive Producer: Bozic Wongar,Actress and speaker: Ursula Yovich, documentary, with German subtitles, 97 min.

German premiereThe film begins in 1945 with the atomic annihilation of Hiroshima and ends with the Fukushima meltdown in 2011. It examines the aftermath of atomic bombs, nuclear weapons tests and the Fukushima reactor accident. Radioactive fallout from the British nuclear tests in the 1950s and 1960s at Emu Field and Maralinga in South Australia not only contaminated large parts of the Australian outback. Radioactive rain also reached cities like Adelaide. Above all, however, the Aborigines have suffered from this to this day.

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