Maralinga

Author : Elizabeth Tynan
Publisher : NewSouth
ISBN 13 : 9781742234281
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atomic Thunder written by Elizabeth Tynan and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the 1950s Australian prime minister Robert Menzies blithely agreed to a series of British atomic tests in the deserts of South Australia. These top-secret tests offered no benefit to Australia and left the public completely in the dark. This book reveals the devastating consequences of that decision."--Back cover.

Author : Frank Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780733635939
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maralinga B written by Frank Walker and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan Parkinson
Publisher : Dogwise Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maralinga written by Alan Parkinson and published by Dogwise Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 2000, a $108 million clean-up of the former British A-bomb test site in outback South Australia was being wound up. It was declared a success and the Maralinga tjarutja Aboriginal people were reassured that it would be safe to move back onto their lands. It was claimed to be a world first, the biggest and most successful clean-up ever.But leaked documents show that behind the scenes, the project had been increasingly troubled. Some key insiders, including the government's advisers, say that the job was never finished properly. In the process of the clean-up, Australia put large amounts of plutonium into several unlined, unguarded holes in the ground, the toxic waste blowing across the land in dusty clouds. the site is a devastating legacy to nuclear testing, not to mention the Aboriginal people who have been told it is safe to live there.Alan Parkinson was the official adviser to the project, but after he voiced his concerns about the dangers of the shortcuts that were being taken, he was removed from the project and told to be quiet. Refusing to be silenced, Alan has been fighting for an inquiry for six years. this is his story.

Author : Christobel Mattingley
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1952533422
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maralinga's Long Shadow written by Christobel Mattingley and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Grandfather and Grandmother telling lots of stories. They had to live at Yalata. Their home was bombed. That was their home where the bomb went off. They thought it was mamu tjuta, evil spirits, coming. Everyone was frightened, thinking about people back in the bush. Didn't know what bomb was. Later told it was poison. Parents and grandparents really wanted to go home, used to talk all the time to get their land back.' Yvonne Edwards was just six years old when the first bombs of the nuclear tests at Maralinga were detonated in 1956. The tests continued until 1963 and their consequences profoundly affected her family and community. This powerful book, by award-winning author Christobel Mattingley, honours Yvonne Edwards' legacy as a highly respected artist and community elder.

Author : Jen Breach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780994293404
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maralinga written by Jen Breach and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1 of a self published comic book series

Author : Roger Cross
Publisher : Wakefield Press
ISBN 13 : 9781862546608
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Belief written by Roger Cross and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative historical work provides a voice for the forgotten victims of the British atomic bomb tests conducted in Australia during the 1950s. Raising disturbing questions about the authorities who conducted the tests, this investigative work reveals how successive British and Australian governments have denied their understanding of the dangers of ionizing radiation in the 1950s. Uncovering scenarios in which government scientists employed to monitor the tests were given protective clothing, while military personnel and workers were left unprotected and exposed to a simulated theatre of atomic war, this work places Australia's forgotten atomic tragedy into a global context.

Author : William J Lines
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520078307
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taming the Great South Land written by William J Lines and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taming the Great South Land is the first full-length landscape history of an entire continent occupied by one nation. It is also, in William Lines's telling, a brutal and controversial story. Examining the ways European society rapidly, radically transformed Australia's physical and human landscapes, the author writes candidly of repeated environmental devastation--from the early slaughter of seals and whales to the destructive spread of sheep, through gold rushes and land settlement to British nuclear tests and the modern mining and timber industries. Lines shows how Enlightenment ideas of progress, economic growth, and development were reconstructed on Australian soil, and how the promise of the conquest of nature became a mockery in fact, resulting in the mass dislocation and destruction of indigenous populations. This shocking narrative, thoroughly researched and accessibly written, combines environmental, social, and political history to hard-hitting effect. Taming the Great South Land is the first full-length landscape history of an entire continent occupied by one nation. It is also, in William Lines's telling, a brutal and controversial story. Examining the ways European society rapidly, radically transformed Australia's physical and human landscapes, the author writes candidly of repeated environmental devastation--from the early slaughter of seals and whales to the destructive spread of sheep, through gold rushes and land settlement to British nuclear tests and the modern mining and timber industries. Lines shows how Enlightenment ideas of progress, economic growth, and development were reconstructed on Australian soil, and how the promise of the conquest of nature became a mockery in fact, resulting in the mass dislocation and destruction of indigenous populations. This shocking narrative, thoroughly researched and accessibly written, combines environmental, social, and political history to hard-hitting effect.

Author : Yalata
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741766486
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maralinga, the Anangu Story written by Yalata and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Maralinga - the Anangu Story is our story. We have told it for our children, our grandchildren and their children. We have told it for you.' In words and pictures Yalata and Oak Valley community members, with author Christobel Mattingley, describe what happened in the Maralinga Tjarutja lands of South Australia before the bombs and after.

Author : Judy Nunn
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458742679
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maralinga (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition) written by Judy Nunn and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2017 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the darkest days of the Cold War, in the remote wilderness of a South Australian desert, the future of an infant nation is being decided without its people's knowledge. A British airbase in the middle of nowhere; an atomic weapons testing ground; an army of raw youth led by powerful, ambitious men - a cocktail for disaster. Such is Maralinga in the spring of 1956. Maralinga is a story of British Lieutenant Daniel Gardiner, who accepts a twelve-month posting to the wilds of South Australia on a promise of rapid promotion; Harold Dartleigh, Deputy Director of MI-6 and his undercover operative Gideon Melbray; Australian Army Colonel Nick Stratton and the enigmatic Petraeus Mitchell, bushman and anthropologist. They all find themselves in a violent and unforgiving landscape, infected with the unique madness and excitement that only nuclear testing creates. Maralinga is also a story of love; a love so strong that it draws the adventurous young English journalist Elizabeth Hoffmann halfway around the world in search of the truth. And Maralinga is a story of heartbreak; heartbreak brought to the innocent First Australians who had walked their land unhindered for 40,000 years. Maralinga a desolate place where history demands an emerging nation choose between hell and reason.

Author : J. L. Symonds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of British Atomic Tests in Australia written by J. L. Symonds and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cat no. 8505819.