rhizomes_Yael, Author at No Dump Alliance

Barngarla’s voice is heard as the Federal Government abandons Kimba nuclear wastedump

On Thursday August 10, 2023 Federal Minister King abandoned Kimba as the proposed site for a nuclear waste dump, stating: “the Albanese Labor Government does not intend to pursue Napandee as a potential site for the Facility.”

Barngarla Court Win Over Nuclear Dump

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

Tahlia Palmer/Nuclear waste dump/3 April–17 July 2023

Nuclear Waste Dump is a new work by artist Tahlia Palmer on display at The Substation outdoor Billboard Gallery 3 April – 17 July 2023

Barngarla women warn Kimba nuclear waste plan will ‘destroy’ sacred site, Dreaming stories

Barngarla traditional owners sitting in a row. They are talking to an audience.

Barngarla native title group has brought a case against the federal government to stop the proposed National Radioactive Waste Management Facility at Kimba.

Barngarla Kimba Briefing (Feb-March 2023)

Members of Barngarla community holding a banner which reads "don't dump on SA." They are standing in front of a large sculpture of a pink galah

Barngarla people’s position on the National radioactive waste facility.

Barngarla Press Release Nov 17, 2022

Traditional Owner stands on a desert track holding a sign: "no nuclear waste dump on Barngara land." The sign is the Aboriginal flag with a nuclear symbol in the centre.

Barngarla in disbelief that site works at Napandee have commenced.

Concerns in outback SA grow as federal government plans to store defence waste at Kimba dump

Terry Schmucker leaning on a fence in front of his wheat farm.

Concerns grow over how the government will dispose of highly-radioactive waste produced by Australia’s future nuclear-powered submarine fleet

Most of Australia’s nuclear waste comes from Lucas Heights – should it stay there?

A large barrel is being loaded onto a truck with a crane.

Opponents of proposed dump site at Kimba in South Australia say it would be safer to keep the waste where it mostly is.

Opponents of nuclear waste facility march as one in Port Augusta to protest

Jason Bilney at a nuclear waste protest in Port Augusta.

More than 100 opponents of a plan to build a national nuclear waste facility on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia have rallied in Port Augusta.

Australia’s nuclear waste is growing as battle over dump site heats up

A group of local kids from Kimba are standing around a tractor holding signs and putting their hands up in a stop sign

Australia is accumulating more intermediate-level nuclear waste than previously thought, a new inventory has found, as the battle over a nuclear waste dump heats up.