NEWS

Behind nuclear's new face
Julie Macken GPAP, Climate Spectator, 14 February 2011
With Martin Ferguson calling for a nuclear power debate at the ALP National Conference and the Weekend Australian’s front page headline reading, "Nuclear power's friendly new face," it's looking like the nuclear lobby has been busy. Of course that’s what lobby groups do – lobby. Except in this case the lobbying is being done by the Minister responsible for Australia’s renewable energy portfolio and the story in The Australian was written by a reporter, not a lobbyist. It would be tempting to think that, after four weeks of fire, floods, and historic storms, the national debate would be focusing on how to make our country more resilient with tough, flexible housing options, infrastructure designed for the 21st century and a sustainable, cheap, low-risk energy mix. But no ... read more - registration required

North Korea on the brink in a nuclear world
James Norman/Jim Green, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 December 2010
Tensions remain high in North Korea this week, as the US has chosen to show its support for its South Korean allies by participating in joint military exercises in the Yellow Sea. A state-run website in North Korea has already warned that the military exercises constitute an "unpardonable provocation" and that any violation of its territory would result in "sea of fire" in the Korean Peninsula ... read more

Fallout over NT nuclear dump site
Lindsay Murdoch & Tom Arup, The Age, 27 February 2010
Dianne Stokes says the Rudd government's decision to push ahead with plans to dump nuclear waste on the red-soil land north of Tennant Creek has caused trouble in her Warlmanpa tribe. "People have given away land that doesn't belong to them … now there is big trouble among us," she said. For centuries, Aboriginal clans followed their dreaming across the low scrub land that became known last century by white people as Muckaty cattle station. Now, some members of one of those clans have agreed to allow Australia's first national waste dump to be established on 1.5 square kilometres of land they claim is theirs in return for $12 million, most of it in cash ... read more

Why nuclear energy struggles to get private sector funds
Paddy Manning, The Age, February 20 2010
People have forgotten - a younger generation perhaps never knew - what is scary about nuclear energy. Anti-nuclear campaigners such as Dr Helen Caldicott are routinely disparaged nowadays. A quick trawl through the clippings yields choice descriptors: "inane", "hysteric", "rabid", "ageing", "anti-nuclear messiah" and "warrior princess" ... read more

Labor Rejects Nuclear Power in Australia
Sydney Morning Herald, February 17 2010
Labor remains opposed to adopting a civil nuclear power program, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says. Mr Rudd said the priority now was to develop effective technology for carbon capture and storage to tackle greenhouse gas emissions. He said the people of Australia could debate anything they wanted. "Our policy is that Australia has multiple other energy sources and we will not be heading in the direction of civil nuclear power," he told reporters ... read more

Uranium mine linked to US arms dealer
Ben Cubby, The Age, July 15 2009
THE new uranium mine approved by Environment Minister Peter Garrett will be owned by a subsidiary of one of the world's biggest arms dealers. A colourful but reclusive billionaire named James Neal Blue, who helped devise the Predator unmanned aircraft being used in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq ... read more

Garrett approves new uranium mine
Cathy Alexander, Nine News, July 15 2009
Australia is to get a new uranium mine - courtesy of former anti-nuclear campaigner Peter Garrett. The federal government has given the go-ahead for the country's fifth uranium mine, to be built in South Australia's northeast ... read more

Rudd defends uranium mine decision
Daily Telegraph (AAP), July 14 2009
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd says the Government has been transparent in its views on uranium mining, hours after a new mine was approved to open. Mr Rudd said Labor had first announced that it would lift its opposition to new uranium mines being opened in 2007. ... read more

Uranium exports and plutonium fuel cycle
Nuclear Disarmament Party, July 6 2008
The Garnaut Report supports uranium exports and unacceptably proposes funding plutonium fuel cycle based nuclear energy systems through an International Low Emissions Technology Commitment for R & D technology transfer initiatives ... read more

When Australia had a bombshell for US
Tom Hyland, The Age, July 6 2008
It was a time when wars were running hot and cold, and Australia and the US were allies in both. Soldiers from both countries were dying in a hot war, in Vietnam. In the cold war against Soviet and Chinese communism, Australia sheltered under the US nuclear umbrella ... read more

Australia set to stay in nuclear club
Katharine Murphy, The Age, February 11 2008
Australia appears set to remain in a controversial global group of nuclear energy countries, even though green groups fear the country could end up being the world's radioactive waste dump ... read more

Nuclear waste may stay at harbourside suburb in Sydney
Simon Benson, The Daily Telegraph, January 30 2008
Thousands of tonnes of radioactive waste may stay buried under a property in a Sydney harbourside suburb if a suitable waste dump cannot be found ... read more

'Council of Sages' Advises Zapatero
Lisa Abend and Geoff Pingree, Time Magazine, January 22 2008
Spain's José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero took his surprise 2004 election victory as a mandate for fundamental change, and has called on 14 world-renowned experts — including Australian anti-nuclear expert and Nobel Laureate Helen Caldicott — for a slate of ideas that, if put into action, would position Spain on the cutting edge of international, environmental, economic and social justice policy ... read more

Uptight US can't let it all hang out
John Beveridge, Herald Sun, August 30 2007
That great old Australian tradition of hanging out the clothes to dry is catching on around the world. Since well before Lance Hill launched the Hills Rotary Hoist in 1946, Aussies have proudly hung their clothes out to dry in the sun - or even for a final rinse in the rain ... read more

New organisations will educate Australians about health risks of nuclear fuel cycle!
PNFA, August 29 2007
People for a Nuclear-Free Australia (PNFA) has been formed in response to disturbing news that the Howard Government has developed an unbounded enthusiasm for Australia to become a major player in the nuclear power and nuclear waste arena ... read more

Bush and Howard to sign nuclear power pact
Geoff Elliott, Australian, August 28 2007
President George W. Bush and John Howard will sign a new bilateral nuclear power pact during APEC, committing both countries to share research and development expertise. Although the agreement is not legally binding, it follows a similar agreement Washington struck with Japan and establishes a framework ... read more

Howard dodging fallout of pro-nuclear position
Sydney Morning Herald, August 27 2007
A major tenet of the Government's climate-change policy is being cleverly exploited by Labor, Michelle Grattan writes. Sue Page is the Nationals' candidate in the northern NSW coastal seat of Richmond, once the political kennel of the Anthony family, but currently ... read more

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