Indigenous owners launch legal challenge over nuclear waste dump

摘要

Maurice blackburn Lawyers have been engaged to challenge plans for a radioactive waste dump on indigenous land at Muckaty Station near Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory.rnMark Lane Jangala, a senior Ngapa traditional owner for Muckaty Station claims he and many other senior elders never gave consent and were not consulted over the nomination of their land for Australia's first radioactive waste dump. They are particularly outraged that a sacred male initiation site is being threatened by the move.