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A police guard at one of the entries to the Maralinga atomic weapons test range. Photo: Fairfax Media

“My people are still suffering from secret nuclear testing “: Australian aboriginal activist Sue Coleman-Haseldine

Import, Nuclear and Racism, Nuclear Weapons December 16, 2017 at 11:09 pm 0 comments

In the 1950s, areas known as Emu Fields and Maralinga were used to test nine full-scale atomic bombs and for 600 other nuclear tests, leaving the land highly radioactive. We weren’t on ground zero, but the dust didn’t stay in one place. The winds brought the poison to us and many others.

Too Little, Too Late for Australia’s Indigenous Victims of Nuclear Tests

Too Little, Too Late for Australia’s Indigenous Victims of Nuclear Tests

International Solidarity, Nuclear and Society, Nuclear Tests, Nuclear Waste May 11, 2017 at 9:32 pm 0 comments

Claudianna Blanco | Australia’s Aboriginal people affected by British nuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960s find the Government’s recent healthcare initiatives inadequate.

UK’s radioactive legacy: abandoned nuclear test sites in Australia

UK’s radioactive legacy: abandoned nuclear test sites in Australia

Latest January 2, 2015 at 3:01 pm 0 comments

Less than 60 years ago, Britain was exploding nuclear bombs in the middle of Australia. In the mid-1950s, seven bombs were tested at Maralinga in the south-west Australian outback.