FoE has been campaigning for real energy solutions and against uranium mining and nuclear power for 35 years.

With our allies in civil society, indigenous and local communities we’ve been an important part of some great victories such as stopping the Jabiluka mine, limiting the expansion of the uranium industry in Australia and scuttling a proosed nuclear waste dump in South Australia.

In 2008, as the host of the Alliance Against Uranium and the secretriat for the Beyond Nuclear Initative, we are a central hub in the anti-nuclear campaign.

 

Looking to 2008

This year will be pivotal in the campaign to keep the nuclear floodgates closed. We need to:

• Hold the ALP to its no-new-mines policy.
• Implement the Nuclear Freeways project – which will mobilise rural communities along the proposed waste route from the Lucas Heights reactor in Sydney to the Northern Territory.
• Maintain and build alliances with Traditional Aboriginal Owners.
• Mobilise new constituencies and build action amongst our traditional allies – churches and other faith communities, the renewable industry and ethical investment sectors, trade unions, students and others.
• Challenge the nuclear industry and its apologists on the issue of nukes and climate change.
• Continue to support the emergence of an effective national anti nuclear movement.
• Make nuclear issues an electoral concern of both major parties.
• Maintain our role at providing useful and accessible information via printed and on-line materials.
• Continue to mobilise and inspire the community to take action in resisting the expansion of Australia's role in the nuclear fuel cycle.

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