Jabiluka decision ends long-running battle and preserves ‘some of the oldest rock art in the world’

‘There will never be mining’ at Northern Territory site, Albanese says as area becomes part of Kakadu national park

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It’s the decades-long fight over uranium mining that pitted Indigenous owners against the resources industry.

Now it seems the war is over, with the Australian government moving to expand the Kakadu national park to protect the Jabiluka site from mining for ever.

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