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Australian Labor govt’s hypocrisy on Radioactive Waste Management Act

Labor’s Nuclear-Powered Steamroller, newmatilda.com, By Jennifer Mills 16 April 2010, ……….Speaking about that Act before the last federal election, the then shadow minister for the environment Peter Garret said, “this has been a sorry and a sordid business driven by a licensing imperative for nuclear processes that no one has consented to. This [Howard] government continues to make a mockery of the principle of informed consent, of community participation and of respect for the wishes and interests of Aboriginal people in this country.”

The ALP made an election promise to repeal the Radioactive Waste Management Act. The Labor frontbencher responsible for making that promise was Senator Kim Carr, then shadow minister for Territories, who, when Muckaty was selected back in September 2007, said, “today’s announcement is yet the next chapter in the decade-long saga of lies and mismanagement that has become Howard’s waste dump.”

If federal Labor thought the agreement with the NLC was so invalid then, it is difficult to see how that same party can now endorse it so happily… Labor’s Nuclear-Powered Steamroller | newmatilda.com

April 4, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics | aboriginal, antinuclear, Australia, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive