Jillian Marsh

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Jillian Marsh during the NFFA award ceremony (10/2008)

Jillian Marsh is a PhD environmental activist and a member of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (ANFA).

Life

Marsh is a member of the Adnyamathanha Aboriginal tribe living in South Australia . She grew up in the coal-mining town of Leigh Creek in the Flinders Ranges , so she developed a keen interest in mining and the consequences for the indigenous population.

In 1998, Marsh received the Jillian Hudson Environment Prize for her work in raising awareness of the toxic dangers of uranium mining , particularly near the Beverley uranium mine . In 2004, Jilian Marsh received his PhD from Adelaide University in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences. Her research topic was the critical analysis of decision logs for the approval of the commercial mining license for the Beverley uranium mine on the Adnyamathanha land.

In 2008 Jillian Marsh received the Nuclear-Free Future Award in the Old Town Hall in Munich.

Award

Publications

  • Decolonizing the interface between Indigenous peoples and mining companies in Australia: Making space for cultural heritage sites , in Asia Pacific Viewpoint. Volume 54, pp. 171-184, August 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Indigenous people oppose Beverley uranium mine , on greenleft.com.au, March 24, 1999. Retrieved March 9, 2016
  2. ^ Nuclear-Free Future Award 2008
  3. ^ Abstract , on onlinelibrary.wily.com.au. Retrieved March 9, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Marsh, Jillian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION political activist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century