Traditional owners urge rejection of nuclear dump law

Traditional owners from two central Australian regions earmarked for a nuclear waste dump have voiced their disgust about having the facility forced on them.

Seven senior men and women from the Harts Range and Mount Everard areas near Alice Springs fronted the media this morning to make their opposition to a dump known.

Legislation has passed the House of Representatives, allowing the Federal Government to force the facility on the Territory.

Two of the proposed sites are in central Australia.

The traditional owners at today's press conference called on the Territory's CLP Senator Nigel Scullion to cross the floor and vote against the dump legislation in the Senate.


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