Jabiluka decision ends long-running battle and preserves ‘some of the oldest rock art in the world’

Mirarr traditional owners make their feelings known outside the Energy Resources of Australia’s annual general meeting in Darwin in April. Photograph: Kirsten Blair/PR Image

It’s the decades-long fight over uranium mining that pitted Indigenous owners against the resources industry.

Now it seems the war is over, with the Australian government moving to expand the Kakadu national park to protect the Jabiluka site from mining for ever.