How it all began

In November 1998, the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta, a council of wise women elders from Coober Pedy SA travelled all the way from their home in the desert to Melbourne, for the Global Survival and Indigenous Rights Conference.

They came to meet with elders from other parts of Australia and with environmentalists and other people to warn about government plans to dump deadly radioactive waste into unlined twenty metre trenches in their country.

It was at this conference that Wren was inspired by the women of the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta, by their strength and their wisdom, and in the desire to help them draw public attention to their opposition to the dump, the Humps Not Dumps Anti-Nuclear Camel Expedition was borne.

The Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta speak about the proposed national radioactive waste dump:

IT'S POISON - AND WE DON'T WANT IT