After 50 years of waiting it now looks as though the
Tjarutja aboriginal people of Maralinga, South Australia, are about get their ancestral lands back...
Between 1961 + 1963 their land was used for
15 nuclear tests.
Following a
1967 cleaning effort +
surveys in the 1980s the Australian government has said that the Tjarutja's land is
clean +
ready for hand-back - sometime this year.
Later this week
BBC Radio 4 will be broadcasting a
documentary which explores how + why the
British + Australian governments together confiscated the sacred lands of the Tjarutja people + just how much the local
aboriginal people, servicemen + the desert environment were all put at risk...
To learn more read this
illustrated report on the clean-up process + a second report which outlines some of the
criticism the clean-up process has faced, including allegations of
ineffective management, cost-cutting measures + ineffective regulation.
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