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.”
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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.
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Barngarla native title group has brought a case against the federal government to stop the proposed National Radioactive Waste Management Facility at Kimba.
Continue readingBarngarla in disbelief that site works at Napandee have commenced.
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Concerns grow over how the government will dispose of highly-radioactive waste produced by Australia’s future nuclear-powered submarine fleet
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Opponents of proposed dump site at Kimba in South Australia say it would be safer to keep the waste where it mostly is.
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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.
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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.
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By Rachael Hocking – 10 FEB 2021
The daughter of anti-nuclear activist Yami Lester says we are one step closer to world peace as an international treaty banning the deadly weapons takes effect, but Australia is yet to sign on to it.
Yankunytjatjara Anangu woman Karina Lester was among those who welcomed the landmark Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons which entered into force on January 22, but said more work needs to be done to ensure Australia signs on.
Ms Lester’s father was the late Yami Lester, a staunch anti-nuclear activist blinded during British weapons testing in Maralinga in South Australia in the 1950s – and someone she says was a “big inspiration” for an international Treaty.
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By Royce Kurmelovs – 29 JUL 2020
Barngarla mob say they were not properly consulted by federal government for plans to store radioactive waste on Country at Kimba in SA, and that their concerns continue to be ignored.
Barngarla mob say they were not properly consulted by federal government for plans to store radioactive waste on Country at Kimba in SA, and that their concerns continue to be ignored.
