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Senior Mirarr Traditional Owner Yvonne Margarula, downstream from the Ranger uranium mine in Kakadu National Park (2010)
They kept on pushing us Mirarr, they wanted to dig Jabiluka. But there is adjang (sacred place) there. If they disturb it they will make it wrong.They’ve already made wrong. So they closed it back down. – Yvonne Margarula. September 19, 2010
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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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A ‘Stop Jabiluka Mine’ banner hangs from the escarpment within the Jabiluka Mineral Lease (1997).
In the late 1990s the Mirarr people, Traditional Owners of parts of Kakadu as well as the Jabiluka and Ranger uranium deposits, invited thousands of protesters to Kakadu. 1998 was the height of the decade-long and ultimately successful campaign with tens of thousands across Australia adding their voices to support the Mirarr and stop Jabiluka…
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Protest march on Oenpelli Road, Kakadu (NT), 1998
The Mirarr see the blockade as the next logical step in stopping this obscene and noxious proposal. They do not welcome the conflict that beckons, but they do not recoil from it. The Mirarr stand strong together to protect their country. – Jacqui Katona at the launch of the Jabiluka blockade, March 23, 1998