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In 2007, the Northern Land Council contentiously nominated Muckaty, 120km north of Tennant Creek, as another site to be assessed for a nuclear waste dump. In exchange, some Muckaty Traditional Owners were offered funding for essential services and infrastructure such as education, housing and roads. Called Manuwangku by Traditional Owners, it remains the only site under assessment. Warlmanpa Traditional Owners maintain a deep spiritual and cultural connection to the area. Supported by people across the NT and country, the community has maintained protest actions to defend their right to live in a clean and safe environment, free of hazardous waste. “Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud” for which I received the Amnesty International Human Rights Innovation Fund Grant Award in 2010, is a photographic narrative of the spirit, the connection to land and the collective voice of the community. It is a testimony of resilience in the face of an overwhelming conflict and captures the determination of people bound together through a common struggle to keep their traditional land free from nuclear waste. |
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