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No compensation for Maralinga nuclear test victims

Aboriginal people exposed to British nuclear tests in South Australia during the 1950s have been told they have no hope of compensation.

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A British law firm says their cases can't proceed because medical science cannot conclusively prove that fallout from the tests made people sick.

But pressure for a settlement on moral grounds is growing.

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