The chairman of the massive Rio Tinto mining company has stated unequivocally that the company will not go ahead with a proposed uranium mine at Jabiluka, next to the Kakadu National Park in northern Australia, without the consent of the Mirrar Aborigines, whose ancestral land it is. The Mirrar have been protesting for many years against plans for the mine, which would have destroyed several of their sacred sites
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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica
Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.
Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors
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