Federal minister to visit NT's Muckaty
IAN Macfarlane will meet with traditional owners at the NT's Muckaty Station two months after dropping a push to locate a nuclear waste dump on their land.
TWO months after a Federal Court hearing about a proposed nuclear waste storage facility at Muckaty Station was dropped, federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources Ian Macfarlane will visit Tennant Creek for the first time.
TRADITIONAL owners have been calling for the minister to meet with them since the Abbott government was elected almost a year ago, and he will do so on Thursday.
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