Support Muckaty Traditional Owners on World Environment Day
For the past seven years there has been sustained community opposition to a federal government plan to dump Australia's radioactive waste on Aboriginal land at Muckaty in the Northern Territory.
Now Traditional Owners opposed to the dump plan are taking their concerns and their case to the Federal Court with a trial starting this week in Melbourne.
Join us to discuss the court case and the way forward for the campaign and responsible radioactive waste management.
Speakers include: Kylie Sambo - Muckaty Traditional Owner and hip-hop
artist, Natalie Wasley from Beyond Nuclear Initiative, Lawyer Elizabeth McKinnon, the Maritime Union's Kevin Bracken, Jim Green of Friends of the Earth and ACF's Dave Sweeney.
MC Karrina Nolan - Oxfam Australia
Musical interlude from Lucie Thorne and images and voices from the Muckaty lands.
6pm (snacks and images) for 6.30pm start, finishing 8pm.
Information on the nuclear dump plan: http://beyondnuclearinitiative.com/
"We want to keep talking about it and continue to fight it until we are listened to. The big capital N-O. The Ngapa clan and the rest of the other totems in that land trust are all connected. We have connections to each other and are related to each other. We are the same tribe, the one ancestral cultural group of people who are the strong voice, and one voice, in that country.” − Dianne Stokes