Photos: Jessie Boylan
Traditional Owners National Speaking Tour A BBQ with Traditional Owners will be held
June 24, 2pm – 5pm, Redfern Community Centre.
29-53 Hugo St Redfern.
SYDNEY PUBLIC MEETING
From the Heart, For the Heartland
Traditional Owners Speak Out:
No radioactive dump in the NT
June 25, 6pm, Redfern Community Centre
29-53 Hugo St, Redfern.
If you live locally in the Blue Mountains and want to go to
these events in Sydney please contact: Natalie Lowrey
T: 02 4782 1181
E: natalie.lowrey[at]foe.org.au
VISIT slideshow to hear Traditional Owner, Dianne Stokes talking
http://www.timbonham.com/slideshows/Muckaty/
Proposed sites for nuclear waste dump
Traditional Owners Speak Out: No radioactive dump in the NT
This month, Indigenous traditional owners and community members
from areas proposed for the Federal radioactive waste dump are
undertaking a national speaking tour. Timed to coincide with the
announcement of the Federal Government’s preferred dump site,
the tour is an opportunity for national audiences to hear how the
dump proposal is impacting the targeted communities in the Northern
Territory. Speakers will share their stories and experiences and raise
concerns related to contamination of the country that sustains their
communities, livelihoods and traditional culture.
Speakers confirmed for the tour include:
- Mt Everard traditional owners, Audrey McCormack and
Benedict Stevens
- Harts Range community members Priscilla Williams and Mitch
- Muckaty traditional owner Dianne Stokes
- Top End Aboriginal Conservation Alliance (TEACA)
convenor and Larrakia Nations’ representative Donna Jackson.
A public meeting is being held in Sydney on June 25 at Redfern
Community Centre, 25-53 Hugo St. The evening will comprise
speakers, an exhibition of artworks from affected communities,
photos of the proposed dump sites and a short film.
The speaking tour aims to confront and dispel the myth used
to justify nuclear activities in Australia; that remote areas are
uninhabited and lifeless places. Federal Science Minister Julie
Bishop suggested that all of the proposed waste dump sites are
“some distance from any form of civilisation” when in fact, there
are communities living and running successful enterprises three,
five and eighteen kilometres away from the four areas currently
being assessed.
This is a unique opportunity to hear first hand, the impact of
the Federal radioactive waste dump proposal on remote and
indigenous communities. With Australia poised to expand involvement
in the global nuclear industry, this public forum will enable discussion
of domestic radioactive waste management issues, social and
environment concerns regarding the NT dump proposal and ways
people interstate can engage with and support the NT
community campaign.
Please advertise this public event widely amongst your family,
friends and colleagues and contact the tour coordinator for
any further information.
Adam Wolfenden
Friends of the Earth, Sydney
0401 045 536
