Antinuclear

Australian Labor Party’s right wing – big push on behalf of nuclear lobby

Anna Bligh opens door to nuclear powe  Jamie Walker and Imre Salusinszky  : The Australian * December 24, 2010 ANNA Bligh has backed calls for the Labor Party to review its policy on nuclear power.……Minister Martin Ferguson, right-wing Australian Workers Union leader Paul Howes, former NSW premier Bob Carr and Labor senators Steve Hutchins and Mark Bishop in supporting a review of the ALP’s long-standing ban on nuclear power, most likely at the party’s national conference next December……The office of NSW Premier Kristina Keneally said yesterday she was “open to a public debate” on nuclear energy….. The senior Labor Premier, Mike Rann, is heavily invested in expanding uranium mining in South Australia….

The Australian understands Labor’s NSW division has decided to bring its state conference forward from its usual date in October to July, partly to frame its position on nuclear power.

Anna Bligh opens door to nuclear power | The Australian

December 23, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, Queensland