Article CPRT 3-11-2005 Talking Straight Out
Re launch of book Talking Straight Out, hosted by Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta – Senior Aboriginl Women’s Council of Coober Pedy on October 11.This was the day in 1953 the the Totem One atomic bomb was detonated at Emu Junction. The book follows the kungka’s fight to stop the federal government’s plan to build a nuclear waste dump in South Australia in 1998, which they won.
Mentioned: Karina Lester, Lucy Lester, Ian Crombie, Georgia Brown, Emily Austin, Kelly Warren Eileen Crombie, Mary Harms, Pat Clifford, Milika Williams, Mia Brown, Myra Watson, Leigh Cleghorn, Nina Brown, Clare Brown.