WARNING: This website contains images and videos of deceased persons.
WARNING: This website contains images and videos of deceased persons.
Keeping radioactive waste out of Australia.
The No Dump Alliance was formed in 2026 to bring together Traditional Owners, church and faith groups, trade unions, health professionals, scientists, civil society and environmental organisations united by shared goals:
- Stopping the South Australian government’s plan to turn SA into the world’s high-level nuclear waste dump.
- Ending the pattern of First Nations communities being targeted for nuclear waste dumping.
- Demanding responsible management of radioactive waste in Australia.
As of April 2026, we are awaiting long-overdue government announcements about the management of Australia’s nuclear waste (most of it stored at ANSTO’s nuclear site south of Sydney) and the future management of waste from the AUKUS nuclear submarine project.
The No Dump Alliance is no longer active but its important work is now being led by the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (ANFA).
Since 2025, this website has been managed by ANFA.
Since the Alliance was formed, several planned nuclear waste dumps have been abandoned due to community opposition led by First Nations communities.
Muckaty traditional owners: Gladys Brown, Mr Lane, Jeannie Sambo, Dianne Stokes Nampin, Doris Kelly
Since the Alliance was formed, several planned nuclear waste dumps have been abandoned due to community opposition led by First Nations communities.
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.
Half way through Federal Court proceedings launched by Warlmanpa and other Traditional Owners from Muckaty, in 2014 the federal government agreed to not pursue the site.
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.
Most recently, in 2023, the Barngarla Determination Aboriginal Corporation successfully appealed the proposed dump on their land in the Federal Court, after being left out of consultations.
Since the Alliance was formed, several planned nuclear waste dumps have been abandoned due to community opposition led by First Nations communities.
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.
Half way through Federal Court proceedings launched by Warlmanpa and other Traditional Owners from Muckaty, in 2014 the federal government agreed to not pursue the site.
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.
Most recently, in 2023, the Barngarla Determination Aboriginal Corporation successfully appealed the proposed dump on their land in the Federal Court, after being left out of consultations.
