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Choose Nuclear Free this federal election
Choose Nuclear Free is an initiative of the Medical Association for Prevention of War, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, and Friends of the Earth, Australia.
Launch of the Nuclear Freeways campaign
This Friday July 30th marks the launch of Friends of the Earths Nuclear Freeways campaign. A delegation of Friends of the Earth members and Batman electorate residents will travel over 3,000ks on one of the proposed routes for the transport for Australia's radioactive waste.
voice your opinion on new uranium mines
Please take a moment to make a submission to the WA EPA regarding two uranium mining proposals. These are the proposed Lake Maitland uranium mine and the Wiluna uranium mine.
Nuclear and sustainable future: Brisbane walkers arrive in Canberra
On 13th March 2010 five women aged from 37 to 69 years old began walking to Canberra to take a message to the Prime Minister. The message conveys the hopes and dreams of the Brisbane community and Indigenous leaders, asking that we maintain our nuclear free future. The team is arriving in Canberra today, May 24.
Muckaty Traditional Owners in Melbourne, April 21
Traditional Owners fighting Martin Ferguson's plan to dump nuclear waste on their land in the Northern Territory will be in Melbourne on April 21. Please come to this public meeting to hear their story and to find out what we can do to support them.
National day of action against the radioactive waste dump
Resources minister Martin Ferguson is planning to dump nuclear waste on Aboriginal land in the Northern Territory. Traditional Owner from the proposed site of Muckaty, Dianne Stokes says ‘All along we have said we don’t want this dump on our land but we have been ignored’. Join us on Monday 12th April for a national day of action.
Can Russia be trusted with our uranium?
A 2005 survey of 1200 Australians found that 56% of us believe that the International Atomic Energy Agency's nuclear 'safeguards' system is ineffective. Barely half as many believe the system is effective. Public concern will be heightened by the Rudd Labor government's response on Thursday to a parliamentary inquiry into proposed uranium sales to Russia.
Make your voice heard on the nuclear waste dump!
The Federal Government has finally announced that it will repeal the Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act. But resources minister Martin Ferguson's replacement legislation – the National Radioactive Waste Management Bill (NRWMB) – is as coercive and unfair as the bill it replaces. Please make a submission to a Senate Inquiry on the proposed legislation.
Ferguson dumping election promises
Federal resources minister Martin Ferguson's announcement that he will pursue plans for a national nuclear waste dump at the Muckaty site, north of Tennant Creek in the NT, continues the shabby and unfair process set in train by the Howard government.
the Radioactive Exposure Tour is on again
Friends of the Earth is hosting the annual Radioactive Exposure Tour from May 14-23, 2010. Register your interest soon as places always fill fast! Since the 1980s, these tours have exposed thousands of people first-hand to the realities of 'radioactive racism' and to the environmental impacts of the nuclear industry.
