Barngarla Aunty holding up a side which reads: "No nuclear waste dump on Barngarla land."

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BARNGARLA COURT WIN OVER NUCLEAR DUMP
July 18, 2023

Today, in a history making moment, The Federal Court of Australia through Her Honour Justice Charlesworth, handed down a decision which was favourable to the applicant the Barngarla Determination Aboriginal Corporation. This has resulted in the quashing of the decision to place the waste dump site at Napandee near Kimba.

The No Dump Alliance – made up of spokespeople and members from Traditional Owner groups, church and faith groups, trade unions, civil society and environmental groups – was formed in 2016 to fight plans for a high-level international nuclear waste dump in South Australia.

The government is targeting a site called Napandee, near the town of Kimba on the Eyre Peninsula.  This proposed nuclear waste dump site is strongly contested by people in the farming community and it is unanimously opposed by Barngarla Traditional Owners.

Every attempt to establish a radioactive waste facility in South Australia and the Northern Territory has been met with First Nations and community resistance. And every time, we have won.

Dec 2019
Wallerberdina, Flinders Ranges
The proposed dump at Wallerberdina was opposed by many Adnyamathanha Traditional Owners, who were not consulted about the nomination of the site. After years of pursuing the site, it was abandoned in 2019.
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Three Aunties from Wallerberdina
Dec 2019
June 2014
Keep the poison out of Muckaty
Half way through federal court proceedings launched by Warlmanpa and other Traditional Owners from Muckaty, the federal government agreed to not further pursue the site.
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Portrait of 5 Indigenous people from Muckaty campaign. They are wearing t-shirts painted up in traditional patterns.
June 2014
July 2004
Irati Wanti- the poison, leave it
After a six-year battle, the federal government abandoned plans to impose a national nuclear waste dump in central SA in 2004. The campaign was led by senior Aboriginal women − the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta − many of them victims of the British atomic bomb tests half a century ago.
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Kunga Tjuta Aboriginal woman holding one hand up to the sky and holding the Aboriginal flag
July 2004

South Australians have fought and won nuclear waste battles before.

And we’ll do it again!

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