Review by Nadia Haniff, Perth Happenings

November 7 2025

Ask anyone about Chernobyl and most identify it as one of the world’s most disastrous nuclear sites. Ask someone about Wittenoom and you’ll most likely get… Witten who? Yet, Wittenoom, part of Banjima country, is the worst contaminated site in the Southern Hemisphere. The level of asbestos contamination is so extreme that Wittenoom was removed as an official town in 2007. Yurlu | Country is set to raise awareness of this catastrophic predicament.

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