Global Climate Change Action

see Picnic Bay here:
http://www.magnetic-island.com.au/picnic-bay.html

Latest:
http://globalclimatechangeaction.org/sd2

Ministerial reply attached in PDF file

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Hon Stephen Robertson, MP
Member for Stretton
Minister for Health
Level 19, 147-149 Charlotte Street, BRISBANE QLD 4000
GPO Box 48, BRISBANE QLD 4001
Tel: (07) 3234 1191
Fax: (07) 3229 4731
E-mail: hea...@ministerial.qld.gov.au

Dear Mr Robertson

by Dr. Alison Broinowski
(Published with permission from the Author for not-for-profit public awareness purposes)

"In late June and early July, just as the Howard Government was dispatching the army to Aboriginal communities to deal with sexual abuse, the U.S. military was involved for two weeks in northern Australia in the biggest ever joint exercise, Talisman Sabre.

Most Australians saw no connection.

Military training areas, uranium mines, sites for future nuclear waste dumps and now Aboriginal land seized by the Commonwealth are dots across the Australian map.

Several of them are connected by the Adelaide-Darwin railway. Having been many times promised, the $1.3 billion link from Alice Springs to Darwin was surprisingly found viable in 1999. By January, 2004, the train was running. The only tenderer, according to research at University of Technology Sydney, was the FreightLink consortium led by Halliburton (then headed by US vice-president Dick Cheney), with state, territory and federal contributions.

FreightLink owns the railway and can operate it for 50 years. It has contracted UK firm Serco, to staff and service the train.

Serco, which manages British nuclear power plants, gained a reputation in 2000 for sacking workers without AWAs at Australian naval bases in Jervis Bay.

National Speaking Tour
Adelaide - Melbourne - Canberra - Sydney
speakers - art - photos - films

Melbourne Public Meeting
June 18, 6pm, New Council Chambers
Trades Hall Carlton
(Poster attached)

Despite giving an "absolute categorical assurance" prior to the last election that the NT would not be targeted for a Federal radioactive waste dump, in June 2005 the Federal Government announced that three Department of Defence sites in the NT would be assessed for suitability.

Brendan Nelson, as Federal Science Minister, queried "why on earth can't people in the middle of nowhere have [radioactive] waste?" ; Current Science Minister Julie Bishop remarked "all the sites in the NT are well away from houses... some distance from any form of civilisation."

Protecting Community, Country and Culture

Remote areas are not uninhabited and lifeless places. Traditional Owners and community members from the proposed dump sites are travelling across the country to express their concerns of how a radioactive dump would irreversibly damage country and culture.

Mt Everard - 40kms NW of Alice Springs.

3 km from the proposed dump site Werre Therre community runs several business enterprises, including mustering wild horses

From Benny Zable:

Anne
I just come back from the ALP national conference at which a decision was past to expand on uranium mining.
It is tragic in so many ways. It just legits John Howard push for Nuclear Power stations adds more nuclear fuel to Nuclear weapons industries and of cause we increase the piles uf deadly radioactive waste which gives the green light for Nuclear Dumps in the NT.

Christine Mills spoke at a rally outside the ALP conference.
Thanks we have a Green Party to rally around.

From: John Hallam FOE-Aust

HOWARD LIVING IN NUCLEAR FAIRYLAND

Mr Howard's announcement that Australia must 'consider' nuclear
power as a solution to the climate change issue shows that he either
does not know or does not care about the arguments that have been
raised against nuclear power for decades. They display a degree of
ignorance - or worse, ideological bias - that ill-fits a prime
minister, who clearly does not understand the realities of nuclear
power. He is living in a nuclear fairyland.

According to Friends of the Earth,