A TRADITIONAL owner from the Barkly has met with some of the country’s most powerful politicians in his bid to stop the nuclear waste dump from being built at Muckaty Station.

Mark Lang Jangala spent the start of this week lobbying policy-makers at Federal Parliament in Canberra.

The nuclear waste dump bill passed the House of Representatives last month after the Coalition abstained from voting and there were just six votes opposing the Government, and the bill.

In an interview with former Tennant Times reporter and now NITV/Sky News video journalist Daniel Bourchier, Mr Lane Jangala said that the government had ignored the concerns of the great majority of stakeholders from the area.

“They haven’t even come to talk to us,’’ he said, “I want that Martin Ferguson to come to Tennant Creek and sit down and talk to us.”

Mr Lang Jangala said the Northern Land Council and Federal Government had sided with Amy Lauder – part of one of the families with interest in the land – out of convenience.

He said her family is one of seven families who have a claim over the contested land at Muckaty.

Before reaching Canberra and beginning his extensive lobbying of MPs, Senators and the media, Mr Lang Jangala was in Melbourne waging a legal battle against the Northern Land Council and the Commonwealth Government.

The case before the Federal Court is about the processes involved in selecting the site, as well as the lack of proper consultation.

Nuclear Free Campaigner Dave Sweeney joined Mr Lane Jangala on his two-city campaigning trip, and said he was appalled with the clear disregard for the wishes of the majority traditional owners from the Barkly.

The nuclear dump bill is set to be debated in the Senate later this month.