What are some Social Impacts of Kakadu National Park?

Question

Give detailed answer. Many thanks

Answer 1

This is the social impact of a mine in the park called Ranger:

Social Impacts
The establishment of Ranger was accompanied by the creation of Jabiru, now the fifth largest town in the Northern Territory. Local Aboriginal people living in the Jabiru area are now outnumbered approximately 7:1 by
non-Aboriginals. In 1984 the first Commonwealth Social Impact Study of
mining in the region found that:
“the current (Aboriginal) culture is one in which
disunity, neurosis, a sense of struggle, drinking, stress, hostility, of being drowned by new laws, agencies, and agendas are major manifestations. Their defeat on
initial opposition to mining, negotiations leading to Ranger and Nabarlek, the fresh negotiations on Jabiluka and Koongarra, new sources of money, the influx of vehicles, together have led the Project to an unhappy verdict THAT THIS IS A SOCIETY IN CRISIS”
(p.299, emphasis transcribed).
In 1997, Energy Resources of Australia and the Northern Territory and Federal Government financed another Kakadu Region Social Impact Study. It found that local Aboriginal people had gained no net material benefit from mining royalties. Aboriginal people in the Jabiru
area have among the worst health and housing statistics in Australia, including extremely high levels of alcohol abuse. Mining has failed to address the community’s material and economic needs and has exacerbated social and cultural dislocation.
Also go to this site to download the Kakadu Region Social Impact study in pdf.
http://www.deh.gov.au/ssd/publications/krsis-reports/impact-study/index.html