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Greens garnering electoral support against nuclear waste dump

“If people vote for the Greens, they will have a voice against a nuclear waste dump, and a very rigorous one at that, in the national Parliament,” Senator Brown said.

Greens leading the Nats, says Brown, The Age, LINDSAY MURDOCH, August 4, 2010 BOB Brown flew to the marginal Top End seat of Solomon yesterday claiming the Greens vote is rapidly increasing across regional Australia and is now “way ahead of the National Party”……Greens organisers are confident the party’s pledge to oppose the building of a national nuclear waste dump on a disused cattle station near Tennant Creek will boost its vote in the Northern Territory this election.

Both Labor and the Coalition support building the dump at Muckaty despite opposition from some traditional owners of the area.

“If people vote for the Greens, they will have a voice against a nuclear waste dump, and a very rigorous one at that, in the national Parliament,” Senator Brown said……….. Greens leading the Nats, says Brown

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