Jacqui Katona

Jacqui Katona

Jacqui Katona is a western educated Aboriginal woman who lead the campaign to stop the Jabiluka uranium mine in the Northern Territory. In 1998 the Mirrar Aboriginal people, together with environmental groups, used peaceful on-site civil disobedience to create one of the largest blockades in Australia's history. Katona won the 1999 U.S. Goldman Environmental Prize, with Yvonne Margarula, in recognition of efforts to protect their country and culture against uranium mining. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=1NTQ6B-4YO8C&pg=PA292&lpg=PA292&dq=yvonne+margarula&source=web&ots=fXgyUmAZU6&sig=PddjnLQCoFhsjPbHhgawm4ITYYI Echoes from the Poisoned Well] ] [ [http://www.abc.net.au/austory/series3/9826.htm The Long Journey Home] ] [ [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bigidea/stories/s1328167.htm Wisdom Interviews: Jacqui Katona] ]

ee also

*Uranium mining controversy in Kakadu National Park
*Uranium in the environment
*Energy Resources of Australia
*Women and the environment through history

References

External links

* [http://www.greenleft.org.au/1997/301/15287 Yes to land rights! No to uranium mining!]


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