NT Aboriginal elders send plea to GG

Traditional owners fighting off a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory have invited the Governor-General to Tennant Creek before she signs off on the legislation.

The Senate passed laws on Tuesday that pave the way for medical, research and industrial waste to be stored at the Muckaty Station site 120 kilometres from Tennant Creek for hundreds of years.

In a last ditch bid to stop the waste dump 27 traditional owners have written to Governor-General Quentin Bryce inviting her to the Top End to meet and discuss their concerns.

“Muckaty is a very special place for us,” the traditional owners of the Warlmanpa Land Trust wrote, adding they worried about the dump’s impact on animals, bush tucker, old stories and new kids.

“None of the ministers have ever come to talk to us about the waste dump.”

The Northern Land Council in 2007 nominated Muckaty Station, however a legal challenge by a group of traditional owners is now before the Federal Court.

The Governor-General is required to give royal assent to the laws.

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