SA Aboriginal nuclear protest intensifies
Source: Australian Associated Press
Aboriginal groups have stepped up their campaign against a plan for a nuclear waste dump in South Australia, saying it threatens their culture.
A royal commission last month found that SA could earn billions of dollars if it stored large amounts of the world's high-level nuclear waste.
But Arabunna elder Kevin Buzzacott says his people remain traumatised from atomic weapons testing in the 1950s and don't want any more nuclear projects forced on them.
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Commissioner Kevin Scarce earlier said the proposal should be scrapped if the community didn't support it and was accepting responses until Friday.
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