Maralinga, the deserted former military base in South Australia, has become ground zero for an unusual type of vacation. In a country best known for its white beaches and coral reefs, Mr Matthews ...

IT is one of South Australia’s most terrible chapters — the Maralinga atomic bomb tests. Now shocking new details have emerged about deformities suffered by the children of the tests’ veterans. PEOPLE ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. It is September 27, 1956. At a dusty site called One Tree, in the northern reaches of the ...

Only a handful of members are left of an Australian Army unit that built the camps at the top secret Maralinga nuclear bomb facility — most have died of cancer. More than 60 years on, a survivor ...

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. It is 27 September, 1956. At a dusty site called One Tree, in the northern ...

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Maralinga traditional owners are receiving the final piece of their homeland, and they hope to turn the former nuclear test site into a tourism mecca. The federal government will officially return the ...

When Prime Minister Robert Menzies agreed to top secret British nuclear testing in the South Australian desert, he paved the way for a series of massive explosions that contaminated vast tracts of ...

AVON Hudson is still fighting – but his battle for the rights of those exposed to deadly radiation at Maralinga in the 1950s and ’60s is becoming lonelier. The Australian Nuclear Veterans’ Association ...

Traditional owners have been given unrestricted control over the Maralinga lands in outback South Australia and have high hopes for a future for tourism. The area known as section 400 was the scene of ...