Radioactive Waste: Threats to country and culture

For the last two decades Aboriginal communities have experienced the radioactive racism that has been the hallmark of the Federal Government's approach in pursuing a remote dump site. Powerful grassroots campaigns successfully stopped plans for a dump first in SA in 2004 and then in the NT last year.There are two debates considering the storage of nuclear waste in Australia that we'll be looking at today, the Federal Government's search for a national dump site for Australia's waste and South Australia's Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission that is considering the importation of international high level waste.One year ago Muckaty traditional owners won a federal court case against the Government's proposal to dump nuclear waste at Muckaty station in the NT sparking a new process whereby the Commonwealth has invited site nominations Australia wide. Clayton Lewis founder of the Aboriginal Heritage Action Alliance from Western Australia will talk to us about his experience finding out that a site on his country had been nominated. Nat Wasley from the Beyond Nuclear Initiative will reflect on the dump campaigns so far and talk about where the process is at currently and Sue Coleman Hasseldine, representative from the Kokatha Mula Nation and the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance will join us from SA where they are challenging proposals for both the national and international dumps.  National Anti-nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth Dr. Jim Green outlines the two processes.