“All of us were living when the government used the country for the bomb. The Government thought what they knew what they were doing then. We know the poison from the radioactive dump will go down under the ground and leak into the water.” The Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta, a council of elder Aboriginal women from Coober Pedy, have been campaigning against the Federal Government’s plans to build a national radioactive waste repository on their traditional lands in the South Australian desert. Four years after this documentary was made they are still fighting. A confronting documentary about Australia’s history of Nuclear Testing and its impact on the indigenous inhabitants of so called ‘uninhabited’ land. For more information visit www.irantiwanti.org
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
B1005502
Language
English
Audience classification
ACMI classified
Subject categories
Aboriginal Australia → Aboriginal Australians
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Propaganda
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Environment
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Pollution
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Communities
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS [PAL]; Copy
Digital Betacam [PAL]; Master
Digital Betacam; Sub-master
VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded
MPEG-2 Digital File; Memory Grid Pod Full Encode