During the 1950’s and 60’s, the British Government conducted nuclear tests at Maralinga in South Australia. These tests exposed Aboriginal inhabitants to radiation and contaminated the landscape with radioactive materials for hundreds of thousands of years.
I SEE A BLACKENED EARTH
COVERED BY LEAVES
I SMELL DEAD TREES
I TASTE SMOULDERING ASHES
BUT HEAR NO BREEZE
B. Walong
