Evidence of a humanitarian crisis began building at Maralinga in remote western South Australia during the late 1950s, but it wasn’t until the 1980s that the world finally heard about it. On 14 May ...

Occasionally I give guest lectures to undergraduates about Maralinga. In most cases, the students have never heard of the place. A small number may have heard the word, but don’t know what it means.

Drawn from a dark period of Australia’s cold war-era history, ABC TV’s new series never quite finds the balance between light and shade Ewen Leslie struts with a pep in his step in Operation Buffalo, ...

Maralinga holds a unique and controversial place in Australia's history, but for Leon and Diane Ashton, it represents a time in their lives when they had a whole town to themselves. From 2004 until ...

It may be decades since the British government's nuclear weapons tests in South Australia but for the men who worked on the site, the damage of nuclear exposure is very real. A group of veterans have ...

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Only a handful of members are left of an Australian Army unit that built the camps at the top secret Maralinga nuclear bomb facility — most have died of cancer. More than 60 years on, a survivor ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Over successive Sunday nights, the ABC has premiered two important television programs recounting the history of nuclear testing in Australia – the documentary Maralinga ...

Maralinga traditional owners are receiving the final piece of their homeland, and they hope to turn the former nuclear test site into a tourism mecca. A radioactive warning sign Maralinga village in ...

Nuclear expert and former advisor on the Maralinga clean-up, Alan Parkinson, has provided an inside account of all that has gone wrong in the problem-plagued Maralinga site. We’ve reproduced in full ...

Maralinga, the deserted former military base in South Australia, has become ground zero for an unusual type of vacation. In a country best known for its white beaches and coral reefs, Mr Matthews ...

*This article contains images and names of people who have died. The burnt, barren trees in Blak Douglas’s Tjarutja Tragedy are bent, leaning to one side with their branches split in two representing ...