Perth a nuclear target
Perth ‘on nuclear front line’ | Herald Sun, January 01, 2011, PERTH could face increased risk of Soviet nuclear attack under plans to allow US warships to be based in Australia, Cabinet documents from 1980 reveal.But the then defence minister Jim Killen had earlier told Parliament that Australia, a strong US ally, was likely to be a nuclear target in any case……Australia also offered the US use of Darwin to land B-52 bombers flying from Guam on surveillance missions over the Indian Ocean...Perth ‘on nuclear front line’ | Herald Sun
U.S. military bases made Australia a nuclear target
the use of the Cockburn Sound base, which was not far from Perth, might increase the risk of nuclear attack………….
Australia feared nuclear attack over US ties: archives ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Emma Rodgers 1 Jan 2011, Malcolm Fraser’s cabinet was warned in 1980 that boosting its military ties with the US could put Australia at risk of a nuclear attack and expose it to involvement it in American operations contrary to its national interest, secret cabinet documents show. Continue reading
Julian Assange, like Wilfred Burchett, fighting to reveal truths
Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett in the late 60s was banned from Australia….After the bombing of Japan at the end of the second world war he travelled to a site,..He observed that survivors of the blast were dying of radiation sickness…
…Assange has his rabid homicidal detractors, his vague accusers, and for a time was banned from entering Australia by the confused prime minister Julia Gillard. Both Assange and Burchett are, and were, fighting to reveal truths.
A precedent for Julian Assange’s predicament The Guardian, Bill Green 31 December 2010, Continue reading
Australia’s role in ‘peaceful’ nuclear energy diverted to nuclear weapons
The connections between nuclear power and weapons are well documented and even have a precedent in Australia.
North Korea Steps Up Aggression, Sydney Morning Herald James Norman/Jim Green
December 1, 2010, “………What proponents of nuclear power often fail to understand is the frequent connection between nuclear power programs and weapons programs. North Korea provides one of the most pressing examples of this. Continue reading
Australia’s Parliament reported on degrading effect of uranium mining on Aboriginal people
The1997 Australian parliament report observes: ‘(The) history of uranium mining in Australia and its impact on Aboriginal people is deplorable. Past mining in places like Rum Jungle have left areas so degraded that traditional owners are unable to use them, while mines such as Ranger (also in the Northern Territory) have been forced on traditional owners against their will.” “Even at mines such as Olympic Dam,” it adds, “…there was deep concern at the reckless degradation of sacred sites and insensitivity to their culture.”
Enough of Uranium Mining, Say Aboriginal Communities. Galdu. Resource Centre for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, August 2010, “……..For decades, uranium mining has been a touchy subject for Aboriginal people. Hundreds of Aboriginal communities were cleared out into cattle stations, towns and cities in the fifties and sixties, when Australian and British governments tested atomic weapons in the South Australian desert and off the coast of Western Australia. Continue reading
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