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Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta
The Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta is a council of Senior Aboriginal Women from Coober Pedy, South Australia."Irati Wanti. the poison – leave it!" ''irati wanti'' (Retrieved 30 December 2007) ''Friends of the Earth International'' (Retrieved 30 December 2007) They protest against Government plans to dump in their land, and for the protection of their land and culture. The council was formed in 1995 by Eileen Kampakuta Brown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples of the Australian mainland and Tasmania, and the Torres Strait Islander peoples from the seas between Queensland and Papua New Guinea. The term Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples or the person's specific cultural group, is often preferred, though the terms First Nations of Australia, First Peoples of Australia and First Australians are also increasingly common; 812,728 people self-identified as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin in the 2021 Australian Census, representing 3.2% of the total population of Australia. Of these indigenous Australians, 91.4% identified as Aboriginal; 4.2% identified as Torres Strait Islander; while 4.4% identified with both groups. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coober Pedy, South Australia
Coober Pedy () is a town in northern South Australia, north of Adelaide on the Stuart Highway. The town is sometimes referred to as the "opal capital of the world" because of the quantity of precious opals that are mined there. Coober Pedy is renowned for its below-ground dwellings, called "dugout (shelter), dugouts", which are built in this fashion due to the scorching daytime heat. The name "Coober Pedy" is thought to derive from the Aboriginal Australian languages, Aboriginal term ''kupa-piti'', which means "whitefellas' hole", but in 1975 the local Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal people of the town adopted the name Umoona, which means "long life" and is also their name for the Acacia aneura, mulga tree. In the 2016 Australian census, there were 1,762 people in Coober Pedy. History Aboriginal peoples have a long-standing connection with the area. Coober Pedy is considered by the senior Western Desert cultural bloc, Western Desert people to be the traditional lands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radioactive Waste
Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material. Radioactive waste is a result of many activities, including nuclear medicine, nuclear research, nuclear power generation, rare-earth mining, and nuclear weapons reprocessing. The storage and disposal of radioactive waste is regulated by government agencies in order to protect human health and the environment. Radioactive waste is broadly classified into low-level waste (LLW), such as paper, rags, tools, clothing, which contain small amounts of mostly short-lived radioactivity, intermediate-level waste (ILW), which contains higher amounts of radioactivity and requires some shielding, and high-level waste (HLW), which is highly radioactive and hot due to decay heat, so requires cooling and shielding. In nuclear reprocessing plants about 96% of spent nuclear fuel is recycled back into uranium-based and mixed-oxide (MOX) fuels. The residual 4% is minor actinides and fission products the latter of w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Kampakuta Brown
Eileen Kampakuta Brown (born 1 January 1938) is an Aboriginal elder from Australia. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2003Goldman Environmental Prize''Eileen Kampakuta Brown'' (Retrieved on 2 December 2007) together with Eileen Wani Wingfield, for their efforts to stop governmental plans for a nuclear waste Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material. Radioactive waste is a result of many activities, including nuclear medicine, nuclear research, nuclear power generation, rare-earth mining, and nuclear weapons ... dump in South Australia's desert land, and for protection of their land and culture. Brown, Wingfield and other elder women formed the Cooper Pedy Women's Council ('' Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta)'' in 1995. As a child Brown often had to hide from government officials, who had a policy of removing biracial children from their families and sending them to institutions. In 2000 she and Eileen Wani Wingfield pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Wani Wingfield
Eileen Wani Wingfield is an Aboriginal elder from Australia. She was jointly awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2003Goldman Environmental Prize''Eileen Wani Wingfield'' (Retrieved 2 December 2007) with Eileen Kampakuta Brown, for efforts to stop the plans for nuclear waste dump in Australia's wild desert land, and for protection of their land and culture. Wingfield (with other elder women) formed the ''Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta'', Coober Pedy Women's Council, in 1995. Early life As a young woman Eileen Wani Wingfield mustered cattle and sheep with her father and sister. During this time she had to hide from the authorities, who were removing biracial children from their families and sending them to institutions to be trained for a life of servitude. She married and had her own children, but they were found and taken by the authorities. Protest against Nuclear Tests In the 1950s and 1960s, a dozen full-scale nuclear tests were conducted in the southern Australian dese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabana People
The Arabana, also known as the Ngarabana, are an Aboriginal Australian people of South Australia. Name The older tribal Exonym and endonym, autonym was Ngarabana, which may have been misheard by white settlers as Arabana, the term now generally accepted by new generations of the Ngarabana. Language Arabana language, Arabana, like Wangganguru dialect, Wangganguru with which it shares a 90% overlap in vocabulary, is a member of the Karnic languages, Karnic subgroup of the Pama-Nyungan languages, Pama-Nyungan language. Country In Norman Tindale's estimation, the Arabana controlled some of tribal land. They were present at the Neales River to the west of Lake Eyre, and west as far as the Stuart Range, South Australia, Stuart Range; Macumba Station, Macumba Creek. Southwards their lands extended to Coward Springs. Their terrain also took in Oodnadatta, Lora Creek and Lake Cadibarrawirracanna. The neighbouring tribes were the Kokata to the west, with the frontier between the two m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kokatha
The Kokatha, also known as the Kokatha Mula, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of South Australia. They speak the Kokatha language, close to or a dialect of the Western Desert language. Country Traditional Kokatha lands extend over some according to the estimation of Norman Tindale, stretching over some of the harshest, waterless land on the Australian continent. They include Tarcoola, Kingoonyah, Pimba and the McDouall Peak as well as modern townships of Roxby Downs and Woomera. The lands extend west as far as Ooldea and the Ooldea Range while the northern frontier runs up to the Stuart Range and Lake Phillipson. Their boundary with Barngarla lands is marked by an ecological transition from their plateau to the lower hilly acacia scrubland and salt lake zones running south to the coast. The tribes bordering on Kokatha lands were, running north clockwise, the Pitjantjara, the Yankuntjatjarra, the Antakirinja, the Arabana and Kuyani to their east, the Barngarla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yankuntjatjarra
The Yankunytjatjara people, also written Yankuntjatjarra, Jangkundjara, and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of South Australia. Language Yankunytjatjara is a Western Desert language belonging to the Wati language family of the Pama-Nyungan languages. Country According to the estimation of Norman Tindale, the Yankunytjatjara's tribal lands covered approximately . These lands took in the areas of the Musgrave Ranges, with their eastern frontier around the Everard Ranges. Social organisation Yankunytjatjara kinship terminology shares many common terms with the words for kinship in the Pintupi and Pitjantjatjara dialects. Alternative names * ''Alinjera''. ('north') * ''Ankundjara'' * ''Everard Range Tribe'' * ''Jangkundjadjara'' * ''Jangundjara, Jankundjadjara, Jankunzazara'', ''Jankuntjatjara, Jankuntjatara, Jankundjindjara''. * ''Kaltjilandjara''. (a Pitjantjatjara exonym, but referring to the most southwestern of the Yankuntjatjarra horde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antakirinja People
The Antakirinja, otherwise spelt Antakarinya, and alternatively spoken of as the Ngonde, are an indigenous Australian people of South Australia. Name Their tribal ethnonym generally signifies "westerners", from ''andakara'' / ''antakiri'', apparently meaning 'west,' with the suffix -''nja'' denoting 'name'. Language Antakirinya is a Western Desert language belonging to the Wati language family of the Pama-Nyungan languages. Country Norman Tindale estimated the total range of lands to extend over roughly . They lived around the headwaters of four rivers, the Hamilton, Alberga, Wintinna, and Lora, and northwards over the modern border as far as Kulgera in the Northern Territory. Their southern frontiers, just before the start of the gibber desert terrain, ran down to Mount Willoughby, Arckaringa, and the Stuart Range, close to the Kokata territory at Coober Pedy. The line separating them from the Matuntara tribe roughly coincides with the northern reaches of the bluebush ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goldman Environmental Prize
The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists, one from each of the world's six geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. The award is given by the Goldman Environmental Foundation headquartered in San Francisco, California. It is also called the ''Green Nobel.'' The Goldman Environmental Prize was created in 1989 by philanthropists Richard and Rhoda Goldman. , the award amount is $200,000. The winners are selected by an international jury who receive confidential nominations from a worldwide network of environmental organizations and individuals. Prize winners participate in a 10-day tour of San Francisco and Washington, D.C., for an awards ceremony and presentation, news conferences, media briefings and meetings with political, public policy, financial and environmental leaders. The award ceremony features short documentary videos on each winner, narrate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 In The Environment
This is a list of notable events relating to the environment in 1995. They relate to environmental law, conservation, environmentalism and environmental issues. Events *The Alpine Convention, an international territorial treaty for the sustainable development of the Alps, entered into force. *Greenpeace opposed the sinking of the Brent Spar oil rig in the North Sea. *The Environment Act 1995 is passed in the United Kingdom, creating a number of new agencies and setting new standards for environmental management. February *February 16—The government of Bangladesh enacted the Bangladesh Environment Conservation Act.Board of Investment, Bangladesh (1995-02-16)The Bangladesh Environment Conservation Act, 1995./ref> November *Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, are hanged by government forces. *The Threatened Species Protection Act 1995 is passed by the Parliament of Tasmania. See also *Huma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
