Irati-wanti: the poison leave it

“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