Description & Facts: www.vagmag.org - After Federal Resources Minister, Martin Ferguson announced that a nuclear waste dump would be built in the Northern Territory, few realised it was being built on indigenous land without the consent of the majority of Traditional Land Owners. As Ferguson refused to travel from his office in Preston, Melbounre to Muckaty NT to talk to the Traditional owners, a few representatives from the Muckaty community decided to pay him a visit. Watch out for 'Muckaty Voices' on youtube. From Muckaty to Melbourne An evening focused on bringing the voices of Muckaty in the Northern Territory to the inner city suburb of Northcote to create awareness around the issues of Radioactive Waste Management in Australia and the sensitivity of the site selection of the nations only proposed Radioactive Waste repository site. People living in the Darebin electorate have a special connection to this issue and the people of Muckaty, as their local Minister; Martin Ferguson is the Federal Minister for energy, resources and tourism, and has recently proposed a new Bill. The proposed bill, The National Radioactive Waste Management Bill, gives Minister Ferguson huge powers in deciding upon the site for the first Radioactive Waste dump in Australia. Site selection would be at his discretion, and assessment methods would also be at his discretion. This is a huge responsibility and power and a site for a radioactive repository needs to be taken extremely seriously. Indigenous people and