When Roy Vincent was stationed at Maralinga in 1961, he purchased a boomerang from the village store as a token of his adventure. Now in the twilight of his life, he is doing his best to right a generational wrong.
In the twilight of his life, a former Maralinga soldier is doing his best to right a generational wrong.
It is an artefact from the world's oldest living culture, purchased during one of the darkest chapters in Indigenous Australian history, and it cost just six shillings. The Maralinga Tjarutja people were relocated to Yalata from Ooldea, the site of a permanent water soak south-east of Maralinga, when a military base was established at Maralinga in the 1950s.A 1984 royal commission into the nuclear weapons tests at Maralinga revealed that Aboriginal people near the sites and veterans of the nuclear tests suffered higher than normal cancer mortality rates, and condemned the British government's attempts to protect nearby Indigenous people.
Rangers at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, in the Northern Territory, have been receiving parcels of rocks and sand removed from the area by tourists for years.
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