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Aboriginal elder spurns million dollar offer from uranium miners

Marc Howe | February 06, 2013 | 3:57 am Energy Australia Uranium 

An elder from the Djok aboriginal community has hailed a move by the federal government to prevent the mining of uranium on his ancestral lands. On Wednesday the federal government introduced a bill to incorporate 1228 hectares of the Koongarra,...

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