It is 27 September, 1956. At a dusty site called One Tree, in the northern reaches of the 3,200-square-kilometre Maralinga atomic weapons test range in outback South Australia, the winds have finally ...
Maralinga, the deserted former military base in South Australia, has become ground zero for an unusual type of vacation. In a country best known for its white beaches and coral reefs, Mr Matthews ...
A veteran of the British atomic tests at Maralinga has warned the South Australian Government against flirting with a nuclear fuel cycle. Avon Hudson served with the RAAF at Maralinga during the ...
The final part of the Maralinga former nuclear test site in South Australia's outback is to be handed back to traditional owners. The SA Government has introduced legislation to transfer 3,000 square ...
Australia stood by while Britain’s military elite trashed tracts of its landscape then left. Menzies had said yes without even consulting his cabinet It is 27 September 1956. At a dusty site called ...
Only a handful of members are left of an Australian Army unit that built the camps at the top secret Maralinga nuclear bomb facility — most have died of cancer. More than 60 years on, a survivor ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. From the air above Maralinga you can still see the sites where Britain tested nuclear weapons in the South Australian desert 54 years ago ...
Archie Barton: Aboriginal leader who campaigned for the clean-up of the Maralinga nuclear test sites
In the 1950s, the Maralinga Tjarutja people of the remote western area of South Australia were forced off their tribal lands to make way for British nuclear tests. One of their number, Archie Barton, ...
Maralinga traditional owners are receiving the final piece of their homeland, and they hope to turn the former nuclear test site into a tourism mecca. A radioactive warning sign Maralinga village in ...
AVON Hudson is still fighting – but his battle for the rights of those exposed to deadly radiation at Maralinga in the 1950s and ’60s is becoming lonelier. The Australian Nuclear Veterans’ Association ...
When Prime Minister Robert Menzies agreed to top secret British nuclear testing in the South Australian desert, he paved the way for a series of massive explosions that contaminated vast tracts of ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. It is September 27, 1956. At a dusty site called One Tree, in the northern reaches of the 3,200-square-kilometre Maralinga atomic weapons ...
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