Kathy Newnam, Darwin

The newly formed No Waste Dump Committee will hold a public meeting on August 31 to bring together the growing opposition to the federal Coalition government’s plan to build a national radioactive waste dump in the Northern Territory.

NWDC spokesperson Justin Tutty said the meeting will be both an information forum and a demonstration against the dump. Tutty contrasted the meeting to the pro-dump “information sessions” organised by Senator Nigel Scullion around the NT a fortnight earlier, which were all well attended by opponents of the dump. The only information presented in those sessions came from “people who want to build a new reactor in Sydney that would generate more long-lived radioactive waste”, he said.

The NWDC public meeting will “explore the other side of the story — what this dump means for NT workers, residents, traditional owners and our shared environment”, Tutty said. “It will feature Dave Sweeney from the Australian Conservation Foundation, along with indigenous spokespeople and other environmental campaigners.”

The information meeting will be held at 7pm in the Ballroom, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Mitchell Street, Darwin. The next NWDC organising meeting is on August 25 at 6.30pm in the NTCOSS office, Oleander Street, Nightcliff. For more information, phone Justin on (08) 8945 4116 or Peter on (08) 8981 1984.

From Green Left Weekly, August 24, 2005.
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