Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta
The Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta is a council of senior Aboriginal women from Coober Pedy, South Australia.[1][2] They protest against Government plans to dump radioactive waste in their land, and for the protection of their land and culture.[3]
The council was formed in 1995 by Eileen Kampakuta Brown, Eileen Wani Wingfield and other Aboriginal elders. The elders come from the Arabana, Kokatha, Yankunytjatjara and Antikarinya peoples.[4] Kupa Piti is the Indigenous name for Coober Pedy; kunga tjuta means 'many woman' in the Western Desert language.[5]
Brown and Wingfield were awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2003 for their efforts.[6]
In August 2004 the Australian government abandoned its plans for the nuclear waste dump, after a court decision.[2]
References
- ^ "Irati Wanti. the poison – leave it!" irati wanti (Retrieved 30 December 2007)
- ^ a b "Aboriginal women win battle against australian government" Archived 11 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine Friends of the Earth International (Retrieved 30 December 2007)
- ^ Commons Librarian (22 December 2023). "Campaigns that Changed South Australia". The Commons Social Change Library. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
- ^ Wilson, Irene (2018). Indigenous Peoples as Subjects of International Law. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. p. 106.
- ^ Tracey Banivanua-Mar; Penelope Edmonds, eds. (2010). Making settler colonial space : perspectives on race, place and identity. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230221796. OCLC 903282272.
- ^ Eileen Kampakuta Brown & Eileen Wani Wingfield Archived 4 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine The Goldman Environmental Prize – Islands & Island Nations 2003 (Retrieved 30 December 2007)
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- The Australia Institute
- Australian Conservation Foundation
- Australian Greens
- Australian Labor Party
- Campaign Against Nuclear Energy
- Conservation Council of South Australia
- Friends of the Earth Australia
- Greenpeace Australia Pacific
- Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta
- Medical Association for Prevention of War
- Mineral Policy Institute
- Nuclear Disarmament Party
- Peace Organisation of Australia
- The Wilderness Society
- Dorothy Auchterlonie Green
- David Bradbury
- Bob Brown
- Eileen Kampakuta Brown
- Kevin Buzzacott
- Helen Caldicott
- Moss Cass
- Ian Cohen
- Michael Denborough
- Mark Diesendorf
- Jim Falk
- Peter Garrett
- Jim Green
- Margaret Holmes
- Jacqui Katona
- Sandra Kanck
- Ian Lowe
- Scott Ludlam
- Yvonne Margarula
- Dee Margetts
- Jean Melzer
- Kerry Nettle
- Tilman Ruff
- Nancy Shelley
- Jo Vallentine
- Patrick White
- Stuart White
- Eileen Wani Wingfield
- Britain, Australia and the Bomb
- Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy
- Maralinga: Australia's Nuclear Waste Cover-up
- Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option
- Australia and weapons of mass destruction
- Australian Uranium Association
- List of inquiries into uranium mining in Australia
- Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents
- Nuclear power in Australia
- Nuclear weapons tests in Australia
- Olympic Dam mine
- Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry
- Renewable energy commercialization
- Renewable energy in Australia
- Say Yes demonstrations
- Uranium mining in Australia
- Uranium mining in Kakadu National Park
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