Category: Ranger
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Video: Rehabilitating the Ranger Mine
This is the story of a new approach to rehabilitating land – of healing country the Bininj way. The Ranger uranium mine opened in the Northern Territory in 1982 and exported uranium oxide worldwide for 40 years. Ranger mine is located on the lands of the Mirrar people. It’s surrounded by Kakadu National Park, a…
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Video: Yvonne Margarula talks about the Fukushima nuclear disaster, 2011.
As Traditional Owners, Mirarr bear cultural responsibility for the impact of anything from their country. Toby was concerned about this with relation to the export of uranium from Mirarr country. On March 11, 2011, the Fukushima nuclear power station reactors melted down after a dramatic earthquake and tidal wave. The uranium in the reactors came…
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Painting: ‘Djidbidjidbi (King Brown Snake Dreaming)’, by Tim Djandjomerr.
The escarpment overlooking Ranger uranium mine, ‘Djidbidjidbi’ (King Brown Snake Dreaming)—also called Mount Brockman—is a sacred place for Mirarr. The power of this site and the risk that it would be disturbed by the proposed mine formed a big part of Mirarr’s opposition to Ranger. This bark painting, by Tim Djandjomerr, depicts Djidbidjidbi.
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Painting: ‘Djidbidjidbi (King Brown Snake Dreaming)’, by Mark Djandjomerr, 2015.
The escarpment overlooking Ranger uranium mine, ‘Djidbidjidbi’ (King Brown Snake Dreaming)—also called Mount Brockman—is a sacred place for Mirarr. The power of this site and the risk that it would be disturbed by the proposed mine formed a big part of Mirarr’s opposition to Ranger. This 2015 painting, by Mark Djandjomerr, depicts Djidbidjidbi.
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Dirt Cheap 30 years on: the story of uranium mining in Kakadu, 1980 – 2013
Watch ‘Dirt Cheap 30 years on: the story of uranium mining in Kakadu’ here.
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Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry (Fox Inquiry), 1976-1977
Download or view Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry First Report (Fox Inquiry), 1976 Download or view Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Second Report (Fox Inquiry), 1977
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Map of uranium mineral leases in the sub-regions of the Alligator Rivers Region, 1977
“In the 1970’s, the discovery of large quantities of uranium throughout the Alligator Rivers Region, a region of great environmental and cultural significance, led the Whitlam Government to appoint a committee of inquiry to look into proposed mining in the area. The inquiry, under the direction of Justice Russell Fox, was appointed in July 1975…
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