Sambo takes the hip-hop fight to N-dump

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A TERRITORY rap star has pulled off some rhymes to protest against a nuclear waste dump to be built on her country.

Young Muckaty woman and award-winning hip hop artist Kylie Sambo took her song "Muckaty" down south last week to have her voice heard.

Ms Sambo said she was fighting for a "brighter future" for the children living at the remote station, north of Tennant Creek.

"We don't want the waste dump on our land because we care for it as much as it cares for us," she said.

The Howard government first nominated Muckaty as one of four possible sites for a nuclear waste dump in September 2007.

Muckaty is the only site being considered by the Labor Government and Federal Resources Minister Martin Ferguson. NT Chief Minister Paul Henderson said the site should be chosen for scientific reasons - not because the Territory was a constitutional "weak link".

Legislation to create a national nuclear waste dump at Muckaty was passed through the Lower House of Federal Parliament last Tuesday. The law has the potential to override state, territory and local government laws and allow key environmental and indigenous safeguards to be disregarded.

Ms Sambo performed at the Melbourne office of Mr Ferguson Thursday night and at a gig at the Uniting Church Hall, Northcote, last night.


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