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.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. CHRIS UHLMANN: It's been more than 50 years since the British Government set off nuclear bombs at ...

While the Maralinga Tjaratja people are excited and relieved about this week's land hand-back, the veterans who served at the British nuclear testing site are still fighting for compensation.

After years of denial and deceit, the British government has admitted that military personnel were used in radiation experiments during the nuclear weapons tests at Maralinga in South Australia in the ...

Over fifty years ago, the British government tested nuclear bombs in the remote desert near Maralinga, South Australia. Now, after decades of radioactive cleanup, the site is open to tourists.

Nuclear tests conducted in South Australia from 1956 resulted in swaths of countryside obliterated and decades of highly contaminated land The atomic age reached Maralinga with a blinding flash. At ...

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, ...

Respected First Nations activist Reverend Ray Minniecon is a descendant of the Kabi Kabi nation and the Gurang Gurang nation of South-East Queensland. Minniecon is also a descendant of the South Sea ...

Stacks/Goudkamp human rights lawyer Joshua Dale lodged the complaint in Sydney yesterday, claiming the Menzies government breached the human rights of 295 veterans by ordering their exposure to the ...

Almost 60 years after nuclear tests in the Australian outback, radioactive particles still pose a risk to wildlife and residents, according to new report. In the mid-1950s, Great Britain tested ...