A report on the environmental damage that the Western Mining Corporation is causing to the Arabunna people by the siphoning of 42 million litres of water a day from the Great Artesian Basin. The world’s largest uranium mine is located at Roxby Downs in South Australia. It is owned by multinational mining corporation WMC and is built on Arabunna and Kokotha land. This story follows the nuclear trail from an occupation of a WMC borefield by Arabunna elder Kevin Buzzacott and his supporters to a daring mission by videoactivists into the heart of WMC headquarters in Melbourne, surprising the boss himself.Produced as a news story for SKA TV’s Access News, a grass-roots alternative to mainstream news and current affairs, broadcast weekly on Melbourne’s Community Television station Channel 31 since 1994.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
B1006987
Language
English
Audience classification
ACMI classified
Subject categories
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Environment
Television → Television programs
Television → Television programs → Television programs - Australia
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
MPEG-2 Digital File; Memory Grid Pod Full Encode
DVCAM; Master
Digital Betacam [PAL]; Sub-master
VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded