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Papua New Guinea has joined last unspoiled environments and the In essence, the letter strongly the swelling and outspoken ranks PNG government never would agree called on the Japanese Prime of opposition to Japan's plans to to it being used as a nuclear testing Minister, Mr. Susuki, and the ·-- ~ dump nuclear waste in the Pacific. ground, he said. Japanese people to reconsider their ------Despite three days of "hard sell" Mr. Levi said all Pacific countries plans to dump the nuclear waste. by a four-man team of Japanese opposed the proposed dumping and Fiji, the Solomons and Samoa nuclear scientists that visited Port appealed to the Japanese to scrap it. rejected outright the dumping plan Moresby the PNG government has " In the face of such total op­ as a threat to their environment. rejected unequivocally the proposed position, the Japanese should dumping. abandon their plans," he said. Threat- - "Our policy is to see the Pacific Mr. Levi said the environmental Australian trade unions are -;'--:...... - kept nuclear free and the Japanese effects of nuclear waste dumping threatening retaliatory action against plans go directly against that aim," would not be known for many Japanese trade if Japan goes ahead one PNG government official said. decades. with the dumping of 10,000 concrete "There's just no way we could "B Y t h e1r· own account, t h e sealed drums. ever approve of this sort of thing." Japanese have said the dumping of Twenty thousand Japanese The Japanese scientists, on a the radioactive waste is experiment· citizens on Ogasawara Island, 550km Pacific tour that also took them to al - a test to determine whether so~th -west of the dump site, Australia and New Zealand, ex· this system is safe and pro~r for reJected the plan. The solidarity of plained to PNG government officials future cases," he said. their protests convinced the Japanese that experimental dumping of radio- "The PNG . government would Science and Technology Agency to · Id b · b J 1 prefer that Japan indicate its con· put back plans to tip the drums active waste wou egm Y u Y 6000m down to the seabed 990km next year. fidence in the success of these tests According to reports- from by conducting them within their south-east of Tokyo. J · own 200 mile limit." The Japanese Federation of apanese environmental groups full Fishermens Co-operatives added its 5000 tonnes of spent fuel will be scale dumping will involve between The Japanese dumping plans have tossed into the Pacific "within two one and two million barrels of waste raised high emotions among PNG political support to the anti-dumping or three years". -SUNDAY MAIL university students. movement. The federation, which ANTI-NUCLEAR ACTIVIST per year. has close links with the Prme September 29, 1980 Despite . assurances, the PNG A group of placard-waving 1 TO V ISIT BRISBANE Foreign Minister, Mr. Noel Levi, students staged a demonstration out· Minister, Mr. Suzuki, says it cannot 0 BJECTION CALL bluntly announced that no scientific side the Japanese Embassy in Port ?ccept the plan until absolute safety Voice your objection to t he evidence would change his govern· Moresby, where they handed a IS guaranteed and all South Pacific Waste Dumping plans. . peoples agree to it. Write the Consulate-General of ment's policy on a nuclear-tree protest Ietter to a J apanese dtp1 omat J L Peter D. Jones, a Quaker Peace Pacific. who assured themit would be given But a powerful nuclear industry apan, 26 th evet, Plaza, B r i~bane Activist, writer and t rainer in non· violent direct action, will be in Brisbane from November 14t h to 20th. B' E 'N~ i~OM'OhN' D'"' LEAsE'' CO ' NT 'ES foo~· r;.. ~ Peter has a long history of act1v1sm around the nuclear power/ nuclear weapons issue. An official objection to the jections on the following grounds: TRCC NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT COME TO THE granting of a new 2035 ha Uranium *Granting the lase is not in the TO FI GHT THIS IMPORTANT Peter has written extensively on Minign tease at Ben Lomond has public interest. CAS E. You can help by: GENERAL MEETING the arms race in the South Pacific, been lodged on behalf of the *Existing publicly available in· 1. Making a donation to assist ON U.S. military bases in Australia and Townsville Regional Conservation formation (i.e. The Impact Assess· the world nuclear industry. Council (TRCC). The tease has been ment Study conducted under Old. TRCC to present the case in the Mining Warden's Court. Send your During his last visit to Australia applied for by the French owned Guidelines) is inadequate to properly OCTOBER 21 he conducted very successful training mining company, Minatome. assess the effects of the project. donation to TRCC, P.C. Box 364, Townsville. 4810. Tax deductable workshops in non-violent action in This is the first time that anti· *The operation will emit toxic 7.30 pm Floor 9, most major cities including Brisbane. and noxious wastes. donations expressing preference for nuclear groups have been able to *The use to which the product of TRCC can be made to the Australian CANBERRA HOTEL Peter is an advocate of con· make objections through the Conservation Foundation. sensus decision making and thorough Queensland legal system. The the mine (i .e. uranium) will be put is preparation for direct action to not in the public interest. 2. Writing to the Charters Towers outcome of the Mining Warden's *The mine will diminish scarce Mining Warden (c/· Court House, ANN UAL oppose nuclear weapons and in fact Court hearing will set important outdoor recreation resources in the Hodgkinson St.. Charters Towers. any situat ion involving injustice and and far-reaching precedents for any Townsville area. 4820.), expressing your opposition GENERAL MEETING oppression. future Uranium proposals in the To press the objection through to the mining of uranium at Ben ON While in Brisbane Peter will run State. Lomond. a non-violent training workshop on The date for the hearing has yet the Court, TRCC must employ the November 14, 15 and 16 and will t b t services of a barrister and expert For further information contact: NOVEMBER 8 0 Adrian Jeffreys (Co-ordinator). Ph. address a public meeting on · Teh~e ·Townsville Regional Con·· witnesses: This will be an expensive (077) 71 6226 or CANP (Qid) Ph. 1 pm, Quakers Meetins November 19 at 69 Thomas St., scription Council has made the ob· undertakmg. (07) ?21 0188. Ho use, 10 Hampson St. , West End." Contact C.A.N.P. for KELV IN GROVE further details.

PHILIPPINE REACTOR $1.9 BILLION

Westinghouse Electric is to resume Philippines project was 20% finished. problem of disposing of nuclear construction of Philippines' first The plant is now scheduled for waste had not been solved. nuclear power plant, which will completion in 1984. Its 620 mega· Another issue that is likely to generate 620mw. watt reactor is expected to provide crop up will be sourcing financing power mainly for the industry in for the additional cost. Construction of the controversial The plant was funded by loans Philippine nuclear power plant has the nearby tax-free export zone, where several multi-national cor­ from the US Export-Import Bank officially resumed 15 months after and a consortium of US banks led the Government suspended the porations have built la rge factories to produce cheap consumer items by Citibank. Because of their project over questions concerning exposure in t he p;oject, it is held safety-. for Australia and the US. lt is being built in a fishing town of 10,000 likely that they will provide the The country's first nuclear plant people on the Bataan Peninsula, 80 additional capital requirements. will now cost some $US800 million km west of Manila. ($A680 million) more than the Local residents have strongly COMMENT original $US1 ,100 price due to opposed the plant and claim their All campaigners are urged to join additional regulatory instrument fishing grounds will be destroyed with the Philippine people in their costs and accumulated interest dues. by its const ruction and operation. fight agaiJ¥t construction of this Philippine Energy Minister Mr. plant. Geronimo Velasco said that the HEALTH HAZARD Write to His Excellence, President plant includes 53 new regulatory guides including nine Three Mile a los~ecial itt fo,mol commi """to_ssion calledM" rt pres;i~~r _YOl#r -~o~~~~~ rn. , ~ ....· ·· Island-related improvements, and Westmghouse proJect "aM,, potenti ~'#. ~-P~~ two concerns raised by the Inter­ hazard to the health and safety UIP.ll.--~ national Atomic Energy Agency the public". The commission al ' 1 k -AUSTRALIA (AEA). sa1.d 1t. appeared Westinghouse www. O;)"•""· a . o nrl-ger 26 ' 19 At the time of the Three Mile reactors "do not have adequa Digiti~e'?0H2~(i):r811 TODA Island accident in the U.S., the emergency systems·· and the crucicil::= _ _ .:...-7~~ URANIUM: FRENCH CALL TUNE NAMIBIAN GENOCIDE ON EEC SAFEGUARDS

Uranium mmmg is taking place very toxic odour." The worker adds Australia and France have agreed The joint statement announcing The Fraser Government , he said, in Namibia (South West Africa) that even with the use of respirators, to a "draft nuclear transfers agree· the draft agreement was issued in had progressively watered down its under conditions which, according the odour "makes the workers feel ment" on the sale of Australian Camberra following a meeting safeguards policy over the past three to a United Nations official, amount sick". In the windy environment of uranium, both sides claiming that between Mr. Anthony and Mr. years and now appeared to be allow· to "the genocide of the Namibian the Namibian desert, he continues, their policies on reprocessing are Giraud. ing the bases of commercial con· people". the toxic smoke is blown to the "compatible". France will accept no restrictions siderations to interfere with its The United Nations Hearings on black workers' compounds only ten But at a press conference in on the reprocessing of Australian stated intention in 1977 of insisting Namibian Uranium, held on July kilometres away from the mine. Canberra the French Minister for uranium, Mr. Andrew Giraud said. on prior consent by Australia before 7 ·11, 1980, focussed on violations Workers are further contaminated Industry, Mr. Andre Giraud, re· Reprocessing has been the key Australian uranium is reprocessed by of human rights and international by wearing their work clothes home. peated that the French Govern· stumbling block in drawn·out an overseas buyer nation. law stemming from South African ment would not be accepting any negotiations between Australia and "The fact that the Government is mining practices. The hearings were WHITES PROTECTED interference in its internal affairs. the European Economic Community negotiating with France on the sale sponsored by th~ UN Council on Although 800 white workers are on uranium safeguards. of Australian uranium in complete Namibia. also exposed to above·pit toxic dust The EEC countries, particularly disregard of its safeguards policy," The Council, .consisting of more from the mine, they are housed 80 France. want to limit the "prior he said, "has placed it in an im­ than 30 countries, became Namibia's kilometres away from the site, do consent" provision as far as possible. possible position on reprocessing in "sole and legal administering author· not work inside the mine, possess They fear it will put a brake on other international uranium nego· ity" in 1966, following the termina· 80 per cent of the skilled jobs', and developing energy self-sufficiency tiations. tion of South Africa's League of are given thorough medical tests and will intrude upon national "We have not only sold out on Nations Mandate over South West several times a year. A spokesman sovereignty. our stated policy of enforcing the Africa. South Africa, however, still for the National Union of Namibian An added complication is that strictest possible international safe· maintains 60,000 troops there to Workers, based in Angola, stated that EEC laws demand free movement guards on the sale of our uranium protect its diamond, mineral, and black workers are x·rayed, but not of goods and trade between nine but entered into negotiations with uranium mining interests. This .ex· checked by doctors. members. a country which has the worst traction activity violates UN Decree Whites constitute an 8 per cent The only element of Australia's possible record in nuclear matters. Number 1, forbidding exploitation minority in Namibia. Blacks live in nuclear safeguards policy mentioned "France has refused to submit to of Namibia's resources "without the segregated, inferior conditions. At in the joint statement was the international scrutiny generally and consent and written authority of the Rossing black workers can earn one· government's insistence that proposed to sell weapons grade 93 Council on Namibia." sixth the wages of whites. Australian uranium would not be per cent enriched uranium to Iraq. used for military or explosive lt is also determined to extend its WO RKERS SICK MI LI TARY USE purposes. own nuclear arsenal and has tested According to Joseph Waggoner, The Rossing mine supplies Britain The deputy Opposition leader, the neutron bomb." research epidemiologist for the with 43 per cent of its uranium. Mr. Lionel Bowen, later issued a -FINANCIAL REVIEW Environmental Defense Fund, 2,000 Barbara Rogers of the Campaign We owe this to our technical statement accusing the Government September 12, 1980 native workers at the Rossing mine Against the Namibian Uranium superiority in suppressing public of "selling out" on its uranium - NATIONAL TIMES in Namibia - containing the largest Contracts told the hearing:; that opinion safeguards policy. September 14-20, 1980 open pit in the worl d - are exposed uranium imports from Rossing are ----- to levels of cancer·causihg radon superfluous to the British nuclear gas, similar to levels in early US power programme. There are indi· mines. There, lung cancer rates were cations that Britain is using the U.S. IMPORT estimated to be as high as 80 per uranium for military purposes and cent. for re-export. Since Namibian RESTRICTIONS According to a Rossing mine uranium is not subject to regulation worker, Rossing workers "now have The United States Senate has by the International Atomic Energy agreed to severely restrict uranium respirators of some sort, but are Agency (South Africa has not signed imports to protect the domestic only required to wear them in the the Non-Proliferation Treaty), it is mining industry. very dusty areas and when one of the an attractive commodity for An amendment to the 1981 chemical plants breaks down, as it countries wishing to direct it to· Energy Bill could squeeze Australian wards military purposes. does from time to time and emits a efforts to seel large amounts of Rossing now provides Rio Tinto uranium to US utility companies, if Zinc ( RTZ) - which is responsible it becomes law. for more than half the world's uranium trade - with more than A conference of Senators and members of the House of Represent­ half of its global profits. Testimony atives is discussing the bill this week, from the hearings revealed that up but supporters of the amendment to 14,000 tonnes of uranium oxide are confident of at least partial worth $600 million, have now been victory in limiting future imports of illegally exported from Namibia to uranium. Western Europe, the United States, The amendment, proposed by and Japan. Senator Peter Dominici (Republican, New Mexico), woudl reverse liberal· AUSTRALIAN CONNECTION isation of American import laws RTZ is also involved in uranium governing uranium, and lower the mining in Australia through its sub­ import ceiling by 66 per cent. sidiary, Conzinc Riotinto Australia, which has a 51 per cent interest in If enacted, the bill would become effective on October 1 next year. the Ma ry Kathleen uranium mine in Queensland. lt would not affect existing long· NOT MAN APART term contracts. AUSTRALIAN October 1980 September 17, 1980 LABOUR REACTOR ORDERS CUT SOLAR ADVANCE MOVES If the United States is the baro­ The figures remain static for West Physicists of the European Com· be heated to high temperatures in The New Zealand Federation of meter of the outlook for the Germanv and Italy but Japan has munity's Joint Research Centre at a concentrater that focuses the sun's uranium industry, and manystill radiation. In an alternative form, Labour is t o call a meeting of South now only two reactors on order lspra, Italy, have developed a device Pacific island nations on nuclear regard it as such, there will be no the hot air can be used to ·augment compared with five last year. which generates electric power from spread in the region. The FOL short to medium improvement in a gas turbine powered by con· -FINANCIAL REVIEW hot air. president, Mr. Knox, said t his week the depressed market. ventional methods, burning an oil· September 18, 1980 "The major innovation of the the meeting would probably be held The latest figures from the based fuel. device is that it does not require any within six months, and topiC$ would Australian Atomic Energy With this modification, solar water, like currently known designs," include nuclear ·stock-piling, nuclear· Commission (AAEC) show a con· a JRC official said. "That makes it power can be used during the day and ordinary oil-based fuel at night, powered ships and t he dumping of tinuing downward revision of nuclear particularly suitable for arid areas nuclear wast e. power plants under construction and or when sunlight is insufficient. where you want to make sure you - FINANCI AL REVIEW on order. JRC estimates the invention don't use a lot of fuel or water. September 26, 1980 Figures compiled by the AAEC "The simplicity of the device is should be able to produce power in showing the number of commercial another big advantage. lt will require the 300Kilowatt to 70Megawatt nuclear reactors in operation, under a minimum of maintenance. There range. lt has been patented and the construction and on order at May 30, is no complicated machinery possibility of commercial 1980, show a total of 229 in involved. Moreover it is flexible, so exploitation is now being operation, 223 under construction that a fuel-powered gas turbine can investigated. and 65 on order. be used at night." - THE AUSTRAUAN This compares unfavourably with The JRC, established 20 years September 17, 1980 the figu res produced in June, 1979, ago as a nuclear research centre, which show 212 nuclear reactors in began in the 1970s to broaden the operation, 209 under construction scope of its work and now carries and 102 on order. out research into new techniques, RADIOACTIVE The total number of nuclear and environmental problems. reactors in these three categories was 523 in June last year and 517 SCRAM More than 30 per cent of the COFFEE in May this year. budget of its four establishments - at lspra, Geel in Belgium, Karslruhe The large drop in nuclear reactors In another stranger·than·fiction This past March, something at the time that this was, in general, in West Germany and Petten in on order is mainly caused by a slump episode reminiscent of the Three strange happened to 17 workers at "very poor practice". Holland - is now devoted to re· in the US figures which at June 30 Mile lsland/"China Syndrome" jux· the Donald C. Cook nuclear plant, This same Donald C. Cook nuclear last year stood at 47 and by May this taposition, Browns Ferry 3 nuclear searching alternatives to nuclear 50 miles east of Chicago. The water power plant is t o be fuelled by energy. year had failed dramatically to 26. reactor had a scram failure on June they used to make their morning Au strali an~ranium. "We started such programs in Canada also, with eight reactors 28 this year. In a routine shutdown, coffee was discovered to be COI)­ In July this year, the Ranger on order last year, has cut its pro· 76 of 185 control rods failed to the early 1970s, even before the oil taminated by radioactive wastes. partners, Peko·Wallsend Operations jected demand in half with only four insert fully, and it took 15 minutes crisis," an official said. Water from the reactor's spent Ltd. and the Electrolytic Zinc Co. on order in May this year. to get them all in. This was precisely Two scientists are responsible for fuel storage pool had "backed into" of Australia Ltd., signed contracts And even France, which boasts the scenario which set the scene for the JRC system which heats air to the plant's pure water system. Plant to supply 2,000 tonnes of uranium a healthy and determined nuclear a recently published nuclear disaster sufficient temperatures to drive a gas officials said the workers' ex· yellowcake to the Donald C. Cook industry has shaved five off the novel: "The Dorset Disaster" by turbine. posure was very minor. plant operators from 1982. number of reactors it had on order Alexander Sidar Ill. The device works on the same In a similar incident, reported -COURIER MAIL July 19, 1980 at June last year to a projected 8 NOT MAN APART principle as a jet engine: expanding several years ago, the Nuclear -NEWS DIGEST OF ENERGY on order in May this year. October 1980 air to drive a turbine blade. Air can Regulatory Commission commented Jut~ 29, 1980 -2- IRAN-IRAQ B-52 BASES CONFLICT The first rumours of a B-52 revealed - weapons may even be were first built there. Pine Gap and This will help both Iraq and its bomber base for Australia surfaced stockpiled in Darwin. Nurrungar are crucial links in the Recent events in the Middle East close ally Pakistan build the long in July this year, and were con­ Both Mr. Fraser and Mr. Hayden U.S. early warning system. However indicate that countries which make anticipated "Islamic Bomb". firmed this month when Defence say that they will require some the B52's presence greatly increases deals with nuclear technology may The rapid spread of nuclear Minister Jim Killen announced that say in what the B52's actually do the probability of nuclear missiles wind up holding a blank hand. weapons in the Middle East will the US had asked permission to stage here. However, such insistence on being targetted on Australia. This lesson is being learnt by then be assured. Considering past its nuclear bombers in Australia. Australian sovereignty may be France, Brazil and Japan who are history it is highly likely that one lt is understandable for us not to seeing their major source of oil As was revealed later, it was actually a breach of the Nuclear Non· want to be caught up in the nuclear of the many scenarios for nuclear actually Mr. Fraser who asked Proliferation Treaty which states supplies being slowly destroyed war in the area will become a fact. nightmare, but we are, and it is by Iranian air strikes on Iraqi America to consider basing the that signatories undertake not to narrow minded to object to B52's With the introduction of even petroleum installations. we~pons be~om~~ B52's here, and he even proposes 01 in this parochial way. B52 small nuclear it ~eei·1e Atlelear weapons control France and Brazil have secured to subsidise them by buying re­ over them, even indirectly. bombers themselves in any context, very likely that within a few years fuelli ng aircraft for specific use large quantities of oil from Iraq oil installations in the Middle East But this is unlikely to bother with the rest of the military insanity by exchanging nuclt!ar technology ' with a B52 fleet. Mr. Fraser, who is far from the the superpowers have developed, may be put out of action - perman· The question of whether such a and materials but in the process ently. underlying spirit of the NPT - he are the real issue. they have become dependent on fleet would carry weapons is a fore· has consistently urged further atomic -OWEN PEARSON gone conclusion - although the US that supply. b1:1il8 tlf' iR the West. (Neither has The threat now is that those Strategic Air Command says B52's Australia asked the new military on training runs would be "benign", sources will be totally disrupted or dictatorship in South Korea to re· destroyed. all B52's are currently armed with affirm the safeguards agreement RADIATION HAZARD IN twenty 200Kiloton nuclear Meanwhile even the Iraqis have covering export of Australian TOBACCO SMOKE, SAVS drawn a joker as their nuclear warheads, and will soon be refitted uranium that was signed with the with the Cruise Missile. US REPORT installation repeatedly has been assassinated President Park}. • closed by Iranian air attacks. Mr. Fraser has said that the pre­ One of the objections to the sence of nuclear weapons is entirely Cigarette smokers receive danger- The Iran-Iraq war may only B52 base proposal centres on their ous doses of low-level nuclear provide an early warning of what is acceptable to the Government, and presence inviting nuclear attack. claims a convention whereby de· radiation - 47 times the recom- to come as a result of nuclear Australia has been under that mended maximum -from the smoke wheeling and dealing, especially in tails of nuclear armaments are not threat since the American bases they inhale, a new report claims. the Middle East. The report, recently r.eleased by Assuming the status quo is re- the US National Council of turned Iraq may yet get the balance Radiation Protection, is an unex- of the nuclear technology it so badly ._...;.,) pected byproduct of the March 1979 1_w_a_n_ts_f_ro_m__F_r_a_n_ce·_------­ : ~~~· Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident in Pennsylvania. ELECTION QUESTIONNAIRE j In the wake of the accident, defenders of nuclear power com­ missioned studies of the amount of A number of Queensland federal *Ben Humphreys ALP Griffith I election candidates have responded '• radiation released into the environ­ Jim Abbey ALP Maranoa ment by sources other than nuclear to our state-wide questionnaire. "Doug Everingham ALP Capricornia fuel. The replies are available for Barbara Hill ALP Dawson The report estimates smokers are perusal by anyone wishing to see Tony Waiters Dem. Brisbane exposed to 8000 millirems per year where candidates stand on the John Lamb Dem. Herbert from cigarettes. (A rem is a unit of various issues dealt with. Michael Macklin Dem. Senate gamma radiation). For the benefit of readers of this William Elson-Green Dem. Senate The US Environmental Protection newsletter we have summarised the Gilruth Rees Dem. Senate Agency has set new guidelines for results below. Janet Hunt ALP Darling Downs the maximum annual exposure from The replies of the following can­ Mark Carey S.W.P. Griffith man-made radiation sources other didates generally agree with C.A.N.P. than medical ones. policy of opposition to uranium The following candidates who The EPA suggests a ceiling of 170 development and nuclear weapons. replied have been found to be un­ millirems - which makes the level The main variation are those acceptable. of radiation to which smokers persons asterisked who would For the most part they offered subject themselves precisely 47 times honour existing yellowcake export their party's policy or past perform­ the safe figure set by the US agency. contracts. ance as their reply to the questions. Cigarette smoke contains radio· active polonium 210, which accumu­ •Manfred Cross ALP Brisbane Don Cameron lib. Fadden lates in the lungs to produce the Peter Beattie ALP Ryan Gordon Dean Lib. Herbert 8000 millirem-per-year dose for a Barbara Robson ALP Moreton Evan Adermann NP Fisher smoker consuming 30 average­ Deane Wells ALP Petrie Ray Braithwaite NP Dawson strength cigarettes a day. Len Keogh ALP Bowman fan Cameron NP Maranoa -THE AUSTRALIAN Jim Finnemore ALP Wide Bay Clarrie Millar NP Wide Bay September 27, 1980 Tony Mijo ALP Leichhardt Tom McViegh NP Darlin~ Downs Fay Price ALP Fisher THE A.L.P./DEMOCRATS URANIUM POLICY

In reply to our questionnaire a 3. Uranium will not be exported repressive provisions of the Atomic people, and the rights and well-being b. the ALP is satisfied that the number of candidates said only that until the problems of waste dis­ Energy Act, the following will be of the Aboriginal people. aboveme!;ltioned problems have been they support the policy of their posal, security (especially plutonium} undertaken - Believing that, having regard to solved; and respective party. and costing (which must include the a. the current functions of the the present unresolved economic, c. the Australian Government en­ This allowed them to make a cost of long-term waste disposal) Australian Atomic Energy social, biological, genetic, environ­ dorses Recommendation 6 of the stand without the difficult task of are solved. Commission will be divided; mental and technical problems First Fox Report, which states: working through a personal position 4. Following structured national b. the Atomic Energy Act 1953· associated . with the mining of "a decjsion to mine and sell on the many aspects of a complex (and, if possible, international} 79 will' be repealed and replaced by uranium and the development of uranium should not be made unless problem. debate for at least one full term of legislation to establish- nuclear power, and in particular- the Commonwealth Government en­ A number of candidates from the Parliament, the issue will be put to i. an independent regulatory a. to the proven contribution of sures that the Commonwealth can Australian Democrats and Australian referendum at the same time as a authority responsible for nuclear· the nuclear power industry to the at any time . . . immediately Labor Party returned copies of their subsequent election. related environmental protection, proliferation of nuclear weapons and terminate those activities, party's policy_ 5. If, in spite of our best efforts, health, safety, security. safeguards the increased risk of nuclear war; permanently, indefinitely or for a No candidate from the Liberal/ uranium is exported, we will seek and other non-proliferation ac­ and specific period." NCP coalition returned a policy to have the mining operated by the tivities; b. the absence of procedures for Accordingly, a Labor Government statement assuming undoubtedly government and all profits devoted ii. a government corporation to the storage and disposal of radio­ will- that government actions and state· to research and development of conduct the present commercial ac· active wastes to ensure that any a. declare a moratorium on ments over the past five years speak alternative energy, or an export levy tivities of the Australian Atomic danger posed by such wastes to uranium mining and treatment in for themselves. imposed pnd the proceeds used in Energy Commission, such as the human life and the environment is Australia; Following is a summary of the the same way. production and marketing of radio­ eliminated. b. repudiate any commitment of Australian Democrats and Labor ______isotopes; and lt is imperative that no commit­ a non-Labor government to the Party policies as they relate to the . .. iii. a Nuclear Science Authority ment of Australia's uranium de­ mining, processing or export of nuclear issue. 7i2:=f.~a:-:::~ to perform the other functions posits to the world's nuclear fuel Australia's uranium; and .::t::: - currently undertaken by the cycle should be made until- c. not permit the mining, pro­ Australian Atomic Energy Com· a. a reasonable time has elapsed cessing or export of uranium pur­ AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRATS mrssron in conformity with overall for full public debate on, and con­ suant to agreements entered into national energy policy objectives as POLICY ,.....-,.-====;...,; sideration of, the issues; contrary to ALP policy. determined by the Government. Nuclear Power and Uranium Mining Northern Territory Uranium 1. Due to the adequacy of Repeal the Environment Protect­ Australia's coal supplies there is no ion (Nuclear Codes} Act 1978, The need for the construction of nuclear Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern plants in this country; moreover, Territory) Amendment Act 1978 until such time as the problem of and The Envi ronment Protection disposing of nuclear wastes is re- (Alligator Rivers Region} Act 1978, solved no consideration will be------T••.,.,.,..,.,,..,. ..-. .. and a new Aboriginal Land Rights given to the use of nuclear power (NTl Act will be enacted to carry generated by nuclear fission. AUSTRALIAN LABOR out Labor's Aboriginal Land Rights 2. We will impose an indeterm­ PARTY policy. inate stay of uranium export, to be Minerals & Energy Policy accompanied by public debate and Uranium by constructive action by Australia Australian At~mic Energy Recognising- to stimulate, and itself initiate, a Commission That the provision of Australian lt . massive international programme of Having regard for the current uranium to the world nuclear fuel u research and development of safe agglomeration of diverse and con­ cycle creates problems relevant to and inexhaustable supplies of flicting responsibilities of the Atomic Australian sovereignty, the environ­ energy, whatever their nature. Energy Commission and the ment, the economic welfare of our -3- ACTION AGAINST URANIUM Lopeti Senituli from T onga 1s This month has been another In Kingaroy on Saturday, they will take them to Queensland, PACI FIC DELEGATES present studying at the University active one for C.A.N.P. were welcomed into a friendly, Victoria, South Australia, New South of the South Pacific in Fiji. Lopeti informal gathering enjoying a week· Wa les and the A.C.T. Two Pacific delegates to the voiced his concern at the proposed *SCHOOL BOOKING end of alternative lif estyles, fresh Speakers for the A boriginal Nuclear Free Pacific Forum came to plans by Japan and the U.S. to dump C.A.N.P. was invited to address air, sunshine, good food and good people of Australia were Pat Queensland on 2nd-5th October f or nuclear waste in the Pacif ic. a class of 35 grade 12 students last company. Bush dancing, music and O'Shane, Mick Miller and Shorty a short speaking tour. The Governments of the Pacific month in Craigslea. Ron Leeks who poetry provided a lively entert ain­ O'Nei ll. Media coverage was very un­ have spoken out strongly against ment evening. took the booking said the students A more comprehensive report satisfactory and our appointment on t he planned dumping but are, by were quite well informed and Sharing of experiences and re­ will be included in our next news­ talkback radio was cancelled because economic considerations, con· interested in the issue. sources helped to inform those letter. the subject of the nuclear presence strained in their comments about present on the current situat ion in the Pacific was considered too the other aspects of the nuclear in the Pacific as experienced by *BUSH DANCE SUCCESS cont roversial before the Federal and cycle. the people. State elect ions. Our fund raising Bush Dance last Successful efforts are being made ANTI-NUCLEAR GROUPS month was a success with over 200 to inform the Pacific people of the MEET people enjoying the sounds of Bale hazards of the whole nuclear cycle NUCLEAR FRE E PACIFIC Em Up Bush Band. and to mobilise them into effective FORUM protest actions which will reinforce A n informal Uranium Moratorium their Government's official state· meeting was held in Sydney on *RAILWAY STATION OFFICERS Six C.A.N.P. members from ments. 25th-26th September, prior to the UNION BALLOT Qu eensland attended the Nuclea r Thursday was busy day with Nuclear Free Pacific Forum. C.A.N.P. has prepared the "Case a Free Pacific Forum in Sydney on lunch time meetings at Queensland Anti·nuclear activists from all Against Uranium" which 26th-28th September. Heather University and Griffith University, states except the Northern Territory accompanied the Ballot Papers sent Williams (WI LPF Queensland Dele­ a meeting with members of the gate), Bruce Doyle, Michael O'Regan, were there. Distance and expense to the Railway Station Officers Roman Bedor from Palau Aboriginal community and a public Tony Belcher, lvan Guy and Joan unfortunately prevented the Union members. Mary Kathleen (Caroline Islands) brought first hand meeting at night. Shears were able to hear in detail: Northern Territory from sending a Uranium prepared the "No Ban information of his people's fight to On Friday, Lopeti flew to representative. Case". The Postal Ballot to be implement a Nuclear Free Con­ Rockhampton to address two Several decisions were reached conducted over the month of stitution and of the conditions and meetings. Roman met with T.L.C. *the effects on the people of the during the one and a half day October will decide whether or not hazards which the people of the Executive members and Trade Union Pacific Islands of nuclear testing and meeting, including: the union members will allow the Micronesian Island groups are having officials in Brisbane and on Friday dumping; " the transfer of U.M. Secretariat t ransportation of yellowcake from to endure as a result of the U.S. night spoke at a public meeting in *their fear of the disastrous re­ duties f rom C.A.N.E. (S.A.) to Mary Kathleen. nuclear weapons programme. Toowoomba. sults of radioactive C.A.N.E. (W.A.). DIARY OF EVENTS--: OCTOBER NOVEMBER AU:iTRALIAN:i SUPPORT TUESDAY 14, 7PM WEEKEND 14, 15, 16 Public meeting with David Purnell Training workshop in non-violent peace worker and A ustralian Sec­ action with Peter Jones. NATIVE AMERICANS' retary of the Religious Society of Contact Ron Leeks for further Friends (Quakers). The topic is details. Disarmament and the Aims Race. STRUGGLE AGAINST EXPLOITATION AT AIcorn College, Kangaroo Pt. WEDNESDAY 19 7.30 P.M. Public Meet ing with Peter Jones STOP URRNIUM MINING THURSDAY 16, 7.30PM A T 69 Thomas St . West End. T.J. Ryan Memorial Lecture Don Dunstan on " Australia's Future in t he Nuclear World" Mayne Hall, Qld. University. Admission f ree. $5 supper after­ affecting their children and grand· * the next U.M. meeting to be held wards. Support the Ben Lomond Ob- children ; in January 1981 (long weekend) *their struggle to rid themselves possibly in Melbourne. FRIDA Y 17, 1PM jection. and their territories of the presence " a membership scheme to be im­ Mobilisation Day. of nuclear weapons and nuclear plemented to fund the work of 1pm onwards. Act ivities by con­ *Write to the Charters Towers armed warcraft and planes. Uranium Moratorium Secretariat. cerned groups in City Square The indigenous people of the " the N.F.Z. Broadsheet to be 4.30pm Rally, 5.30pm March Mining Warden (C/- Court House, Pacific and Pacific·rim countries completed and distributed. (permit applied f or) recognise that their true * Information on mining corn· Hodgkinson St., Charters Towers, independence cannot be won while panies, their advertisements for TUESDAY 21, 7.30PM the U.S. and France maintain their equipment and personnel, contracts · C.A.N.P. General Meeting 4820), expressing your opposition to nuclear testing facilities in the and financial reports to be collected, 9th Floor, Canberra Hotel. Micronesian Islands, Hawaii and collated and distributed to unions the mining of uran1um at Ben French Polynesia, while Chinese and anti-nuclear groups. Lomond. and Russiau missiles are targetted *action on a nat ional level NOVEMBER into t he Pacific Ocean and while - joint responses to national and Australian and other Pacific-rim FRIDAY 7, 7.30PM international events; *Send a donation to countries continue to mine - national speaking tours; DINNER uranium. (Support Trade Union Bans) - compilation of resource and T.R.C.C., P.O. Box 364, Consequently, the thirty-eight contact lists; B.W. I.U. Rooms, delegates representing the indigenous - phone conferences and strategy 130 Petrie Terrace. Townsville. 4810. people were unanimous in declaring Entertainment. W.A.U.M. Tele­ forums. that their struggle for true in­ phone 391 5966. Tax deductable donations ex- dependence and the need to make Discussion on a change of name pressing preference for T.R.C.C. can the Pacific a Nuclear Free Zone from Uranium Moratorium (U.M.) SATURDAY 8, 1PM cannot be separated. failed to produce any acceptable C.A.N.P. Annual General Meeting be made to the Australian Conser­ Four of the Pacific Island dele· alternatives. AT The Religious Society of gates - Roman Bedor of Palau, A report on the meeting is to be Friends (Quakers) Meeting House vation Foundation. Lopeti Senituli of Tonga, Hilda prepared and distributed as soon as 10 Hampson St. Lini of Vanuaatu and Jim possible. Kelvin Grove. See page 1 for further details. Albertini of Hawaii - have under­ taken a short speaking tour which JOAN SHEARS

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