Nuclear Freeways Fundraiser!

The Yellow Cake Road Collective have come back from their first Nuclear Freeways Trip along the proposed nuclear waste transport route from Lucas Heights to Muckaty Station.  We have visited various communities with a strong focus on indigenous communities.

As a result, we’d like to update everyone and fundraise for this campaign to further our vision for a Nuclear Free Australia and support the Muckaty Traditional Owners in their opposition to the proposed nuclear waste dump site on their land

All Welcome!


SEAN trip to SOS

Here’s a little happy-snap from the train trip on the way back from SOS, held in Adelaide this year.

In 2011, SOS will be held in either Albury or Sydney. Stay tuned!

SEAN finances update

I’ve put together this finance update for SEAN (the NSW student enviro network) to cover the first half of this year. If you have any questions, please email me.

Our opening balance was $4161.08. Our current balance is $4129.64. This means so far we’re down $31.44. We also have some expected income/expenditure which might change this.

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Public Forum: 3376km: a long haul for nuclear waste

Public meeting, photo exhibition and film screening of “Muckaty Voices”

For the last four years, Traditional Owners of Manuwangku (Muckaty) have been speaking out against federal government plans for a radioactive waste dump on their country, 120 km north of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory.

In late July a group of senior men and women from Muckaty will travel to Sydney and Wollongong to hold public meetings and meet with trade unions and other supporters.

These meetings will also launch the 2010 Nuclear Freeways project, a joint endeavour of Friends of the Earth Sydney and Melbourne. The project is part of the broader campaign to prevent the federal government imposing a nuclear waste dump on unwilling communities in the Northern Territory. The project is focussed on supporting communities along potential transport routes between the main waste producer – the Lucas Heights nuclear plant in Sydney – and the NT.

Speakers include:
Muckaty Traditional Owners Dianne Stokes and Mark Lane
Fire Brigade Employees’ Union NSW Secretary Jim Casey
Human Rights Lawyer George Newhouse

Sydney Public Forum

Wollongong Public Forum