Action against nuclear dump continues in SA
A very important meeting will have taken place in Adelaide on Wednesday, October 8. The meeting aims to bring together all those who have worked tirelessly over the years on the campaign against establishing a nuclear waste dump in SA. The campaign planning meeting was initiated by Friends of the Earth (FOE) and the Adelaide Kungkas. The Adelaide Kungkas is an Adelaide support group formed to assist the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta (Coober Pedy women) in their fight against the proposed radioactive dump that the Federal Government plans to establish on their land. The Kupa Piti Tjuta is a council of senior Aboriginal women and their campaign is called "Irati Wanti" — "the poison, leave it". The women have been fighting for five years to stop a nuclear dump from being located on a pastoral property near Woomera in South Australia. The Federal Government recently bought the property by compulsory acquisition. It is now 50 years since the first British nuclear tests at Woomera and it is a sad anniversary for the survivors of those tests to have to campaign again against the same threat. Having survived the legacy of the atomic testing and the radioactive fallout, the women ask for help and support from a wider community to prevent new threats posed by a nuclear waste dump. There are things you can do: * Please write to Prime Minister John Howard expressing your opposition to the planned nuclear waste dump. The address is Parliament House, Canberra, ACT, 2600. Best to write and post but you can also email via this website: www.pm.gov.au/email.cfm. * Write a submission opposing the dump to the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA). The ARPANSA website is: www.arpansa.gov.au/reposit/nrwr.htm Post submissions to: The Project Management Officer -NRWR ARPANSA, PO Box 655, Miranda NSW 1490. * Keep in touch with the nuclear dump campaign developments - Contacts: Jim Green (FoE): (08) 8227 1399, 0417 318368, jim.green@foe.org.au; or Adelaide Kungkas: adelaidekungas@yahoo.com.