Between 1956 and 1963, when the British government tested nuclear weapons in outback South Australia, Maralinga was home to thousands of soldiers and scientists. The land was taken from its ...

More than 50 years after Britain's nuclear tests at Maralinga, in South Australia, the traditional owners have finally got the last of their land back. Most of the Maralinga lands had already been ...

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.

Len Beadell stood among the stunted scrub and cast his eyes over the vast limestone and saltbush plain below, stretching northwards to infinity, and thought of England. The parched piece of Australia ...

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 ...

Australia stood by while Britain’s military elite trashed tracts of its landscape then left. Menzies had said yes without even consulting his cabinet It is 27 September 1956. At a dusty site called ...

Less than four months after land used for nuclear testing in the 1950s was officially handed back to its traditional owners in full, nuclear is back on the agenda at Maralinga in South Australia. Most ...

Indigenous landowners have finally been given back their homelands at Maralinga, which was used by Britain to test atomic bombs in the 1950s. But why did Britain use Australian land for nuclear tests ...

The mushroom clouds that reared over the South Australian desert during British nuclear testing in the 1950s will gather again at the Melbourne Art Fair (20-23 February). A new series of works by the ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. MORE than a decade after the Howard government declared the clean-up of Maralinga to be finished, ...

It is 27 September, 1956. At a dusty site called One Tree, in the northern reaches of the 3,200-square-kilometre Maralinga atomic weapons test range in outback South Australia, the winds have finally ...

For half a century, the Tjarutja aboriginal people of Maralinga have waited to get to get their land back. The land is now said by the Australian government to be clean and ready for hand-back - ...