Lecture 4

Lecture 4

1. Land Management

   • Fire
     • Controversial
     • Fire danger signs
     • Protect spread, clear backyards
     • Shaped LS - button grass
     • Burn w/o supervision
     • Reduces wildfire burns

2. Hunting

   • Ind want to balance develop w/ customary practice
   • Env focus on preservation not 'sustainable use' not understand cultural heritage

3. Pilbara, North WA

   • 'Engine room of the nation'
   • Fly in fly out
     • No community
   • Large employ

4. uranium mining

   • Nuclear power, isotopes for medical, weapons
   • 'Although mining can have a local significant impact, it affects a relatively small area... It presents a very minor threat to Australia's biodviersity'
   • Water contam, high water use, destruction of ind land, breaches/leaks, general implications of weapons/power
   • Disrupt ind culture, cannot claim land rights on mining
   • Ranger Uranium Mine
     • Mirrar legal title holders
       • Originally allowed later objected
     • Kadadu, NP. Unemployment only 8% of workforce
   • Nuclear waste dump
     • Bila Kalina objected, won 2004
     • Similar proposals
       • Queensland
         • Shallow burial
         • Not prevent water leak
   • Atomic tests
     • Nuclear bomb 50s/60s
     • Forced clearance of land
     • Ind radiation exposure

5. Gas Resource extraction, Kimberley

   • James Price Point
     • Bush, coastal red cliffs, sea
     • Traditional owners
     • Want to build extraction plant in sea, terminal on cliffs
       • Opp: Env groups view as 'wilderness' - key corridor for migrating whales, CC, blockaded site
       • Mixed ind
         • Money beneficial (low income)
         • Land sacred, responsibility