A remote Northern Territory cattle station remains in the spotlight as the fight against a national nuclear waste storage facility enters its sixth year

In the late eighties, the 1600 square kilometre Muckaty Station was purchased by a Japanese company keen to develop a multi-million dollar Outback resort.

Needless to say, the idea never eventuated and now the name of Muckaty has become synonymous with protest.

Five years ago, the Northern Land Council nominated Muckaty Station as a site to for a possible nuclear waste storage facility - waste from nuclear medicine and also from the operations of the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney.

A federal court case continues over whether adequate consultation was conducted by the Northern Land Council prior to nominating the site.

Regardless of the outcome, Yapa Yapa elder Dianne Stokes says she won't give up.

"I don't care what they will do to us...they're not going to remove us unless we're going to die on the road."

Dianne says the land around Muckaty is a mens sacred area, forbidden to women to access or speak about. But she says she'll continue to fight for her grandfather's land.

"I can't talk straight for the land, but [I can] talk on the side to say that we don't want the waste to come to that land...it's a spiritual area and we just don't want the waste to come to that area," she says.

Dianne was one of a small group of around 60 who marched through Tennant Creek on Friday to mark the fifth anniversary of their protest.

The march included local member for the Barkly, Gerry McCarthy and Aboriginal spokespeople Bunny Napurula and Kylie Sambo.

But Muckaty manager Ray Aylett, who leases the station from the Aboriginal land holders, spoke to ABC Rural earlier this year saying the debate is being fuelled by exaggeration.

"It'll be in cement bunkers in lead-lined drums, so it's not just dumped on the ground," he said.

"I wish somebody would start telling the truth about it, this is where it's all getting blown out of proportion."

CLP's candidate for Barkly, Bec Healy, supports the anti-Muckaty campaign, but says most locals are confused about the facts, and turned off by 'aggressive campaigning."

Another local shopkeeper who didn't want to be named said "we get a lot of scaremongers stirring up the system."

But after five long years of campaigning, Dianne says she will do whatever it takes to stop the proposal from going ahead.

"Whether it's them dragging us away, or us getting killed by truck, or us lying on the road with a stab wound in our chest...we're going to make [the] ambulance come and pick us up...because we don't want no waste dump coming to that land."

The next scheduled hearing of the Federal Court case challenging the nomination of the site will be on 26th June in Melbourne.