Heathgate has no requirement to rehabilitate the site following mining, and will be pumping huge quantities of liquid radioactive waste back into the ground as the cheapest means of disposal. This surreal position makes clear that unless something has the potential for commercial exploitation, it has no right to exist. The fact that groundwater is a vital part of the hydrological cycle keeping each of us alive is obviously of no consequence. Artie Wilton, the last Wilyaru man for the Adnyamathanha people lives in Copley with his family that care for him. Artie represents the knowledge, magic, and ancient survival skills of his people and culture.
Aboriginal people feel the pain in the death of their culture and land to which they are bound.
The destruction of their culture, the loss of traditional lifestyle and holes in the ground. Aboriginal people have called for an end to the genocide and for the birth of decolonialisation. Artie Wilton and his family, like many other elders and many other Aboriginal groups still oppose uranium mining and the destruction pollution and degradation of their traditional homelands. We've come to expect the predatory tactics multinational mining companies use in their efforts to exploit the earth at all costs - what does sting is the dedication of our elected representatives in making it possible. It s a new development and it has to be a boost for the mining industry which has so many promising prospects ahead of it , enthuses Senator Hill.