The Wire

Hiroshima Day is being used as a reminder about Australia’s own nuclear and radioactive legacy. The British bomb testing at Maralinga over 50 years ago left a poisoned landscape and also a poisonous genetic inheritance for the people who lived and worked in the area . There has been a long fight for compensation by veterans and the local Aboriginal people. Earlier this year the British courts decided that veterans there could sue their government and that’s given hope to Australian veterans, and perhaps also to Aboriginal people . The Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation today called for Aboriginal people to also be able to join nuclear veterans in getting equitable access to legal processes leading to health compensation.