The Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta is a council of Senior Aboriginal Women from

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 ...

."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

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 r ...

in their land, and for the protection of their land and culture. The council was formed in 1995 by Eileen Kampakuta Brown, Eileen Wani Wingfield and other Aboriginal elders. The elders come from the

Arabana 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 generall ...

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 ov ...

Yankunytjatjara 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 la ...

and Antikarinya peoples. 'Kupa Piti' is the Indigenous name for Coober Pedy; 'kunga tjuta' means 'many woman' in the Western Desert language. Brown and Wingfield were awarded the

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. ...

in 2003 for their efforts.''Eileen Kampakuta Brown & Eileen Wani Wingfield''
''The Goldman Environmental Prize – Islands & Island Nations 2003'' (Retrieved 30 December 2007) In August 2004 the Australian government abandoned its plans for the nuclear waste dump, after a court decision.

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