My people are still suffering from Australia's secret nuclear testing
My name is Sue Coleman-Haseldine. I was born into poverty on the margins of Australian society on the Aboriginal mission of Koonibba in 1951. At this time my people were not allowed to vote and we had very few means to be understood, let alone be heard.
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Art initiative highlights Australia's conflicted stance on nuclear weapons
A touring exhibition reminds Australians that the nuclear issue is as vital today as in the 1950s
In total, British authorities, with the consent of the Australian government, tested 12 atomic weapons in Australia -- seven at Maralinga; three off the coast of Western Australia; and two at Emu Field, another site in South Australia -- from 1952 to 1957. A series of secretive, smaller, but no less toxic, nuclear trials continued at Maralinga until 1963, scattering vast quantities of highly toxic plutonium across the landscape that was not sufficiently removed or buried for decades.
Aboriginal people were displaced from their traditional lands and civilians and military personnel were exposed to dangerous levels of radioactivity. Seated alongside a Japanese survivor of the atomic bombing at Hiroshima, Coleman-Haseldine told conference participants of the high rates of cancer and chronic illnesses that have afflicted people in her community.
しかし、さっきのフランスといい、このイギリスや豪州といい・・・先住民を人間とはおもっていないな。
（歴史問題）
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