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REVEALED: Maralinga - The Real Truth

When Aboriginal people appeared in a 1950 film they were asked to invent dialogue. Now a spotlight is shining on the tale they told

Bitter Springs was one of the first mainstream stories to challenge the right of settlers to take Indigenous land. A translation project has revealed the ‘creativity and genius’ of its Anangu extras

The Guardian - AU · Oct 24

In 1953, Britain detonated an atomic bomb in Australia, sending a mysterious black mist across the desert before a secret programme began testing children’s bones for radiation

During the Cold War, Britain undertook covert nuclear tests in Australia, leading to hazardous radioactive fallout termed the Black Mist that endangered Aboriginal communities. Authorities, without consent, gathered human bones to assess strontium-90 levels, specifically focusing on infants and children for bone growth studies. The ramifications of these nuclear tests…

The Economic Times · Aug 26

Disabled son of nuclear test veteran seeks answers in MoD medical records

Flight Lieutenant David Purse, who died in 2015, was in charge of the airfield at Maralinga, Australia, from 1962 to 1963.

The Independent UK · Sep 20, 2023

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Shocking evidence of crimes against British servicemen in Cold War radiation experiments

The nuked blood scandal first exposed by the Mirror last year has uncovered shocking new evidence of possible crimes committed by the British state against its own servicemen

Daily Mirror · Jul 12, 2023

Spectre of Maralinga hangs over Aukus nuclear waste for Indigenous communities

The question of where to store waste from submarines is exacerbating trauma caused by British atomic testing in South Australia in the 50s and 60s

The Guardian - AU · Mar 18, 2023

QAGOMA’s Air exhibition in Brisbane reflects on real-world issues, including climate change, colonisation and the pandemic

The catastrophic 2019-20 bushfires and the repercussions of the Maralinga nuclear testing site are just of the subjects explored in a major exhibition that just opened at Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art.

ABC News · Nov 28, 2022

Nuclear bomb tests at Emu Field remain obscured by Maralinga and the mists of time

The two atomic bomb tests at Emu Field in outback SA are perhaps less notorious than those that followed at Maralinga, but the 1953 detonations were accompanied by some extraordinary incidents.

ABC News · Aug 23, 2022

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Nuclear bomb tests at Maralinga triggered Hedley Marston to study fallout over Australia

Hedley Marston was, in many respects, an establishment man — but when he began studying nuclear fallout from British bomb tests at Maralinga, he became incensed.

ABC News · Aug 10, 2022

'This black smoke rolling through the mulga': almost 70 years on, it's time to remember the atomic tests at Emu Field

The name Emu Field does not have the same resonance as Maralinga in Australian history. It is usually a footnote to the much larger atomic test site in South Australia. However, the weapons testing that took place in October 1953 at Emu Field, part of SA’s Woomera Prohibited Area, was…

The Conversation · May 3, 2022

Winston Churchill's hero betrayed by his country as commando death 'linked to nuke tests'

Howard Elliott's amazing life of service is one we are all indebted to as the commando's family express their agony at the commando's death which was 'linked to nuclear tests'

Daily Mirror · Mar 25, 2022

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