The Mirrar people are the legal title holders to the area surrounding and including the Ranger and Jabiluka Mineral Leases in Kakadu National Park. They steadfastly oppose the Jabiluka Uranium Mine proposal.

• Update May 2001
• Update March-April 2001
• Update January 25, 2001
• Update November 23, 2000
• Letter to Peter Costello re. Rio Tinto sale November 23, 2000
• Cogema Briefing September 2000
• Kakadu Charter Signed November 17, 2000
• Jabiluka Update October 10, 2000

The Jabiluka deposit is located adjacent to the floodplain of the Magella Creek, a tributary of the East Alligator River in Kakadu National Park, in the Northern Territory. It is 230 km east of Darwin and just 20 km north of Jabiru, beneath an escarpment outlier about 20kms north of the existing Ranger mine and near the tourist route to the ancient Aboriginal Ubirr rock art sites.

The Mirrar argue that mining and its associated social, economic and political impacts are the single greatest impact on their living tradition, and that an additional mine will push their culture past the point of cultural exhaustion to genocidal decay. The Mirrar believe that the Australian Government supports mining at the expense of their very existence.

The Jabiluka proposal is deadlocked, with lease ownership having passed to Rio Tinto and no clear idea of how this company plans to deal with the issue. It is essential that Rio Tinto hear from the whole community that Jabiluka needs to be handed back to the Traditional Owners.

• The Mirrar People
  The importance of Mirrar Living Tradition has been recognised by the United Nations in accepting Kakadu on the list of World Heritage sites, for cultural reasons. It is these values which have been consistently ignored and marginalised by the Government and mining companies. The Mirrar have a website at: http://www.mirrar.net
  
  
• Kakadu National Park
  

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  One of Australia's most precious places: a National Park, World Heritage area, magnet for tourism and ancestral home to the Mirrar and other Indigenous clans.
• World Heritage at Stake
  Find out how the Australian Government has reacted to moves to list Kakadu as 'World Heritage in Danger.'
• Reasons to oppose Jabiluka
  Eleven reasons...you can probably think of more.
  
• Nuclear Lucre
  Where the money from uranium mining goes in Kakadu.
• The Social Impacts
  What have been the social advantages of uranium mining for the local Traditional Owners?
• The Jabiluka Blockade
  In 1998 a nonviolent blockade took place at Jabiluka, putting the issue firmly on the map.
• A Timeline
  A brief chronology of important events.
• An Address to North Limited
  Christine Christopherson addresses North Limited, and makes the opposition of the Mirrar People crystal clear.
• Gaoled for Jabiluka
  Long-time anti-nuclear campaigner and former Parliamentarian Jo Vallentine serves time for direct actions taken at the Jabiluka Blockade.
• Westpac and Jabiluka: the Facts
  Is your bank nuclear powered?
• Energy Resources of Australia
  Beleagured mining company set up to exploit Jabiluka and the nearby Ranger mine. Now owned by Rio Tinto.
• Ranger Uranium Mine
  Ranger provides an ominous context for any consideration of Jabiluka.