Content Type: Photograph
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Photograph: Jabiru in Mirarr hands at long last, June, 2021
The Mirarr Traditional Owners are very happy and proud that the long fight for recognition of traditional ownership at Jabiru has culminated in the grant of freehold title under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. “This is a great day for Mirarr people,” said Mirarr Senior Traditional Owner Yvonne Margarula. “The handing back of…
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Photograph: Jeffrey Lee, Koongarra, 2013
Portrait of Jeffrey Lee, senior custodian of the Koongarra uranium deposit. In 1970 uranium was discovered at Koongarra by the Canadian mining company Noranda. In 1977 the conservative Fraser government excluded the Koongarra Project Area (KPA) from the newly established Kakadu National Park. The KPA lies within the traditional lands of the Djok clan and…
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Photograph: Hillary Clinton congratulates Yvonne Margarula and Jacqui Katona, White House, 1999.
At the White House in April 1999, Hillary Clinton welcomes Yvonne Margarula, one of the Mirarr traditional owners of the Jabiluka area, who had recently received the Goldman Environmental Prize along with Jacqui Katona, (in background) for the campaign against the uranium mine.
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