Antinuclear

Removal of Minister Martin Ferguson would be a silver lining from Australia’s Labor government crisis

Martin Ferguson, Australia’s Minister for Resources and Energy, has apparently not one good word to say for his Prime Minister Julia Gillard, as he supports Kevin Rudd’s move against her.

When Gillard wins the Labor Caucus vote today, she should remove Ferguson from the Ministry.

• Should Rudd become Prim Minister, Martin Ferguson would encourage him to remove the c,limate change initiative of the carbon tax, in favour of a weak and ineffectual emissions trading policy, with a ludicrous carbon price of $5 per ton.
• As Minister for Resources and Energy, Ferguson has relentlessly opposed Labor policy, as he pushed for the nuclear industry
• Ferguson has equally relentlessly sabotaged renewable energy at every possible turn  – while maintaining a veneer of supporting it.
• In Ferguson’s slavish obedience to the nuclear lobby, he has ignored and downgraded the appeal pf Aboriginal traditional owners to stop nuclear waste dumping on their land.  Even while their legal case is in progress, Ferguson has pushed on with this project. It would be the first step in opening up Australia as the world’s nuclear waste dump – of course, on Aboriginal land.

You do wonder what motivates this man, in his fealty to the nuclear lobby?    Can it really be that his motive is solely jobs jobs, (except for jobs in renewable energy) – jobs, no matter how dirty, dangerous and unhealthy?

February 26, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews