How Did Atomic Testing Affect Australia

I have had the Australian Indigenous studies as a part of my Australian studies and one of the most interesting thing, that I have known, was that the British had atomic tests at Maralinga near the Indigenous communities in Australia. It reminded me Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Operation Crossroads, which also damaged some of my country’s people, Japanese. The Australian Indigenous people have strong connections to their land, so I think they had not only health and rights problems, but also big cultural damages. Therefore, I would like to examine what kinds of impacts were there, if there were any conflicts and a reconciliation between the government and the Indigenous people, and the justice of the atomic tests.

My essay title will be the British atomic tests at Maralinga. The British government and military had atomic tests in Australia from 1952 to 1957. They had the tests at Maralinga in South Australia between1956 and 1957. Maralinga was one of the British nuclear test sites in Australia. Australia was chosen as the test sites by the British, because they did not have any wide uninhabited place, which is suitable
My central questions are what kinds of damages the Aborigines had and how they and their lands were treated after the nuclear tests. To explore the atomic test impacts, I am going to search scholarly books and journals, and Aboriginal autobiographies. A possible conclusion will be that the decision of doing the atomic tests at Maralinga was made by the British and Australian governments and there were no Aborigines’ opinions. Also, there were still people living in not their original lands after decades of the tests and was no official reconciliation including compensation from the UK. Therefore, the Aboriginal people were excluded from the political decision making and even their life and cultures were not protected as well as