I was enlivened by the news of victory for the Muckaty Community near Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. Finally after 8 long years of battling with the Australian Government their Ancestral Lands will no longer be consider as the location for a nuclear waste dump. What is going to be the communities next biggest challenge is healing the family & community divisions & trauma that has now become the emotional & social legacy of this battle...it makes me weak that in spite of the empowerment experienced by Muckaty people they are also now left to deal with a now fractured community. I wonder how & if the Australian government is going to support the Muckaty people through this???
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