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Townsville Bulletin: Mine pain for owners
Publish date: Saturday, 23 November 2013
Content type: News
Fairfax: ERA shares facing pressure over uranium leak
Publish date: Monday, 09 December 2013
Content type: News
Mirarr People want massive uranium deposit brought into Kakadu National Park
Publish date: Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Content type: News
Koori Mail: True champion for his people
Publish date: Wednesday, 18 December 2013
Content type: News
The Australian: Culling crocs a bone of contention in Kakadu National Park
Publish date: Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Content type: News
Guardian: Rio Tinto's stance on Kakadu cleanup alarms Indigenous owners
Publish date: Thursday, 24 April 2014
Content type: News
Kakadu site of Australia's earliest home
A team of archaeologists and dating specialists have new proof that Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 65,000 years — much longer than the 47,000 years believed by some archaeologists. The new findings have been published in Nature magazine this week.
Publish date: Wednesday, 19 July 2017
Content type: News
Guardian: What anti-Adani protesters can learn from the Jabiluka blockade
Publish date: Tuesday, 03 April 2018
Content type: News
NITV: Traditional Owners celebrate Native Title win in the heart of Kakadu
The hard-fought battle for native title over Jabiru in the Northern Territory has been finally won.
Publish date: Friday, 09 November 2018
Content type: News
ABC: Jabiru Native Title claim victory for Mirarr Traditional Owners
Traditional owners in Jabiru, 300 kilometres east of Darwin, are celebrating after their native title rights and interests were successfully recognised under Australian law.
Publish date: Friday, 09 November 2018
Content type: News
Rio Tinto majority crucial for Ranger clean-up
There should be no expectation that any investment in ERA will be recouped from the development of the Jabiluka deposit, for which there is no traditional owner support.
Publish date: Tuesday, 18 February 2020
Content type: News
Mirarr solidarity message on 75th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear destruction
The Mirarr acknowledge with sadness the seventy-fifth anniversaries of the nuclear bomb attacks at Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th.
Publish date: Thursday, 06 August 2020
Content type: News
Ten years on: Kakadu Traditional Owners remain saddened by ongoing Fukushima disaster
Mirarr have expressed their continued sadness on the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Publish date: Thursday, 11 March 2021
Content type: News
Cost to clean up Ranger leaps to $1.6 - $2.2 billion
Publish date: Wednesday, 02 February 2022
Content type: News
Mirarr welcome Ranger clean up commitment from Rio Tinto
Mirarr Traditional Owners have welcomed statements from mining giant Rio Tinto about the future of the controversial Ranger and Jabiluka sites within the World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park in Australia’s Northern Territory.
Publish date: Saturday, 09 April 2022
Content type: News
Jabiluka deposit will never be mined
The Mirarr traditional owners today welcomed the renewed commitment from Rio Tinto to the comprehensive rehabilitation of the Ranger uranium mine at Kakadu and the company’s acknowledgement of the long-standing Mirarr opposition to the development of the adjacent Jabiluka deposit.
Publish date: Thursday, 28 July 2022
Content type: News
Mining report flags sacred site destruction
Senior Traditional Owner Yvonne Margarula says: “It seems nobody has learned anything from the Juukan Gorge disaster. I’ve been telling the world about the sacred sites for forty years and still they don’t listen. We have said “no” and “no means no”. I stood up with my family and with people from everywhere, all over the world, we all said no.”
Publish date: Wednesday, 28 September 2022
Content type: News
ERA minorities completely wrong on Jabiluka
Further mining at Kakadu insane
Publish date: Monday, 10 October 2022
Content type: News
Rio downgrades Jabiluka, why won't ERA?
The Mirarr Traditional Owners of the Ranger uranium mine and the Jabiluka mineral lease welcome Rio Tinto’s reporting last week of the Jabiluka uranium deposit. The world’s second-largest mining company, which owns over 86% of Energy Resources of Australia (ERA), will “no longer report a Mineral Resource for Jabiluka” . In addition to noting the opposition of the Mirarr Traditional Owners, Rio Tinto has acknowledged that the deposit does not currently have reasonable prospects of eventual economic extraction. It simply does not stack up.
Publish date: Sunday, 26 February 2023
Content type: News
Jabiluka’s permanent protection a key test of Australia’s heritage laws
“We do not support a longer lease at Jabiluka” Mirarr Traditional Owner Corben Mudjandi said today. “Three generations of Mirarr: my grandfather and his brothers, my father and aunties, and now my cousins and I have said many times that Mirarr will never say yes to mining at Jabiluka. Why can’t ERA hear us?”
Publish date: Friday, 01 September 2023
Content type: News
GAC corrects recent reporting by Energy Resources of Australia Ltd
Mirarr are concerned by repeated references in ERA Annual Reports to options to extend the Jabiluka Mineral Lease. The reporting inaccurately describes the position of the Mirarr.
Publish date: Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Content type: News
Empty words with a $2 billion dollar price tag from Kakadu uranium miner
“ERA says it wants to protect our cultural heritage at Jabiluka, the best way of doing that is to include it in the World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park where it belongs,” Mr Mudjandi said.
Publish date: Thursday, 21 March 2024
Content type: News
Traditional Owners welcome ERA’s back-flip on Ranger rehabilitation
Mirarr have welcomed the announcement today that uranium miner Energy Resources of Australia has appointed majority shareholder Rio Tinto to manage the complex, high-stakes Ranger Rehabilitation Project.
Publish date: Wednesday, 03 April 2024
Content type: News
Traditional Owners welcome NT Government support at Jabiluka
Senior Traditional Owner Yvonne Margarula said: “We came to this meeting today for an answer. I am happy to say that the Territory Government understands we will never agree to mining at Jabiluka. My father said no, I’ve been saying no for over thirty years.”
Publish date: Friday, 19 April 2024
Content type: News
Uranium has had an impact on the lives of the Mirarr and their community for over four decades
Content type: Page
The Mirarr are the Traditional Aboriginal Owners of lands in the north of Australia’s Northern Territory
Content type: Page
Kakadu site of Australia's oldest home
New proof that Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 65,000 years confirmed on Mirarr country.
Content type: Story
Friday November 9th was a powerful day in Jabiru as Mirarr were finally recognised as Native Title holders of the township in an historic on country hearing of the Federal Court.
Content type: Story