While the deal between the Coalition and the Labor Government - signed this week on the eve of the Senate debate into the National Radioactive Waste Management Bill - does not mention Muckaty, the Territory is the target because it does not have the constitutional powers to enforce its own legislation banning the construction of a nuclear dump.

Scullion said the money, which the Commonwealth would eventually recoup from fees paid by other states to dump their waste at the facility, would be used on health and infrastructure within the Territory.

The agreement proves Scullion is a great visionary. When people begin to fall ill with radiation sickness and present with symptoms of genetic mutation there’ll be loads of money to treat them - for at least a week.

While the Senator, who is supposed to foster the interests of his electorate, is carrying on like a billionaire broker over the deal which sells the Territory down Cyanide Creek, Muckaty traditional owners who have always opposed the nomination of their land are furious.

Penny Phillips, a Wirntiku traditional owner, says Scullion has never been out to see the land he’s trying to sell.

“How dare this wheeling and dealing go on while we’ve got the Government in court challenging the nomination?” she said.

“They don’t know the outcome of the court case yet so the deal shouldn’t go ahead.

“Muckaty is our land and we say no to the waste dump.”

Pamela Brown from the Milwayi group of owners said she wanted the politicians making decisions about her future to come and visit Muckaty but they had declined.

“We want them to come out and see people do ceremony, our way, to prove who really owns Muckaty,” she said.

“That’s our way, not whitefella way, if we are talking about land.”

Member for Barkly Gerry McCarthy is not happy either.