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Kakadu’s most controversial Ranger calls it a day – The Australian Financial Review
After 40 years of processing uranium in an internationally protected wetland, the Ranger mine will permanently cease production today.
The Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation represents the interests of the Mirarr community and chief executive Justin O’Brien said it was time to take stock of the promises the federal government made when it “imposed” mining on the Mirarr four decades ago.
The government of the day overruled universal Aboriginal opposition and imposed a mine it half-owned. Now is the time to redress such past injustice and the inadequacies in the regulation of Rangers rehabilitation and, beyond that, to assess the…
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