Australian links
CURRENT ISSUES
Stop Angela Pamela | No Alice Springs Uranium Mine http://www.stopangelapamela.org.au/
environmental / anti-nuclear groups – national
Australian Nuclear Free Alliance <http://www.anfa.org.au>
Friends of the Earth <http://www.foe.org.au/campaigns/anti-nuclear>
Beyond Nuclear Initiative <http://beyondnuclearinitiative.wordpress.com>
Australian Conservation Foundation <www.acfonline.org.au/default.asp?section_id=25>
Medical Association for the Prevention of War <www.mapw.org.au>
Australian Student Environment Network <http://asen.org.au/campaigns/no-nukes>
Greenpeace Australia <www.greenpeace.org/australia/issues/nuclear-power>
Wilderness Society <nuclear.wilderness.org.au>
Greens’ Senator Scott Ludlam’s website:
<http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/taxonomy/term/673/all>
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Environmental / anti-nuclear groups – state/territory
Friends of the Earth, Melbourne – Anti-nuclear & Clean Energy (ACE) campaign
<http://www.melbourne.foe.org.au/?q=an/home>
Environment Centre Northern Territory <www.ecnt.org>
Anti-Nuclear Alliance of WA (ANAWA) <www.anawa.org.au>
FoE Melbourne: <http://www.melbourne.foe.org.au/?q=an/home>
FoE Brisbane <http://www.brisbane.foe.org.au> and other Qld groups <www.nuclearfreequeensland.org>
FoE Adelaide: <www.adelaide.foe.org.au>
FoE Sydney <http://www.sydney.foe.org.au>
Families for a Nuclear Free Future (Alice Springs) <http://ffanff.wordpress.com>
Arid Lands Environment Centre (Alice Springs) <http://www.alec.org.au> and <http://aridlandsec.blogspot.com>
Australian Peace Committee (SA) <www.peacecourier.com>
Nuclear Free Australia (Melbourne-based) <www.nukefreeaus.org>
Rockingham Anti Nuclear Group <http://rockyang.wordpress.com>
Blue Mountains Nuclear Free Group <www.nuclearfree.blogspot.com>
Japanese for Peace (Melbourne) <www.jfp.org.au>
Daily nuclear news updates:
Updated daily with Australian and international nuclear news & views: <http://www.antinuclear.net>
Also updated daily with Australian and international nuclear news & views: <http://nuclear-news.net>
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Contacts and Campaign Groups
Beyond Nuclear Initiative
Natalie Wasley
Uranium and nuclear dump campaigns.
Arid Lands Environment Centre – Alice Springs
natwasley@alec.org.au
Ph 08 8952 2011 or 0429 900 774
Australian Nuclear Free Alliance
(Aboriginal/environmental alliance)
Donna Jackson (Darwin) Ph: (08) 8985 4784 donna@teaca.org
Web: http://www.foe.org.au/anti-nuclear/issues/oz/alliance
Australian Student Environment Network
http://asen.org.au/campaigns/no-nukes
Adelaide
Friends of the Earth Adelaide
Level 1, 157 Franklin Street, Adelaide SA 5000
web: http://www.adelaide.foe.org.au
general enquiries: (08) 8211 6872, kathy.whitta@foe.org.au
media enquiries: 0439 294 386, peter.burdon@foe.org.au
FoE Adelaide meets each Thursday, 5.30pm.
ANTSA (Anti Nukes Team South Australia)
Contact Amanda: naturearthlove@hotmail.com
Brisbane
Friends of the Earth, Queensland Nuclear Free Alliance:
Robin Taubenfield
04 1111 8737 robintaubenfeld@hotmail.com
Websites: <www.nuclearfreequeensland.org> <www.brisbane.foe.org.au>
<www.peaceconvergence.com> <www.foodirradiationinfo.org>
Melbourne
FoE Melbourne Anti-Nuclear and Clean Energy (ACE) campaign
ace@foe.org.au / 0417 318368
Meets each Wednesday 6.30pm at the FoE office: 312 Smith St, Collingwood.
Web: www.melbourne.foe.org.au
Sydney
FoE, ASEN and other cool groups:
Holly Creenaune
0417 682 541 holly@asen.org.au or holly.creenaune@foe.org.au
Western Australia – Perth
Anti-Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia
www.anawa.org.au
nfreewa@iinet.net.au
Western Australia (south-west WA)
1. FANG (Fremantle Anti-Nuclear Group).
Contact: fremantleantinukegroup@yahoo.com
Fremantle Anti Nuke Group (FANG) is an independent, community based group of concerned people, who work together to oppose the nuclear industry and promote safe energy alternatives in the Fremantle, Western Australia area.
2. ANAWA (Anti-Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia)
http://www.anawa.org.au/
5 King William Street, Bayswater WA 6053
Ph (08) 9271 8786
kate@anawa.org.au
The Anti-Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia (ANAWA) acts as an umbrella group for organisations campaigning against the nuclearisation of Australia.
3. Ban Uranium Mining Permanently (BUMP) campaign run by ANAWA.
Contact kate@anawa.org.au
4. Natalie Lowrey – WA Uranium Free Advocate
Conservation Council of Western Australia
M: +61 421 226 200 P: (08) 9420 7266 F: (08) 9420 7273
E: natalie.lowrey@conservationwa.asn.au
City West Lotteries House, 2 Delhi St, WEST PERTH, WA 6005
5. ASEN nuclear-free campaign
contact: Ania 0431 864 781 midnightsnackbrigade@gmail.com
6. Friends of the Earth Southwest WA
Joan Jenkins
joanpod4@tpg.com.au
7. Rockingham Anti Nuclear Group
rang6169@yahoo.com.au
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1.This month
For international nuclear news go to https://nuclear-news.net/
1 FEDERAL Submissions about the proposed National Radioactive Waste Management Facility in Kimba or the Flinders Ranges. The Standing Committee on Environment and Energy are accepting submissions to the ‘Inquiry into the prerequisites for nuclear energy in Australia’ until 16 September 2019. Please write your own submission or use FOE’s online proforma.
2. FEDERAL. Inquiry into the prerequisites for nuclear energy in Australia (Submissions close 16 September 2019 https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House/Environment_and_Energy/Nuclearenergy?fbclid=IwAR0Sw4LB2qdcxSI6U6l67lI7Mwz9IEWw7_0RIq3mtN-nfpkfBn4z2VkQGog
3, NEW SOUTH WALES. Uranium Mining and Nuclear Facilities (Prohibitions) Repeal Bill 2019 (Submissions close 18 October 2019)
4 .Inquiry to explore Victoria going nuclear
ALSO Sustainability of energy supply and resources in NSW (Submissions close 15 September 2019)
https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/committees/inquiries/Pages/inquiry-details.aspx?pk=2542#tab-termsofreference
Australia has long rejected nuclear power, and it is banned in Federal and State laws. The nuclear lobby is out to first repeal those laws, and then to get the Australian government to commit to buying probably large numbers of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMRs) . This could mean first importing plutonium and/or enriched uranium, as some reactor models, (thorium ones) require these to get the fission process started. That would, in effect, mean importing nuclear wastes.
There’s an all-too short period for people to send in Submissions to the 4 Parliamentary Inquiries now in progress.
You can be sure that the well-paid shills of the nuclear industry will already have sent in their glossy submissions. But let’s remember – these SMRs do not actually exist except as designs – they haven’t been tested. This would be a huge financial gamble by the tax-payer. And that’s just one of the drawbacks. For a few more, see //independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-display/seven-reasons-why-small-modular-nuclear-reactors-are-a-bad-idea-for-australia,13010
Inquiry to explore Victoria going nuclear
CN LIVE! Mark Davis Wikileaks Revelations
It kills slowly, painfully’: Nagasaki atomic explosion survivor has a message for US, North Korea http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/it-kills-slowly-painfully-nagasaki-atomic-explosion-survivor-has-a-message-for-us-north-korea/story-BB2nANm1xGmNZ4x73Gx32K.html
Nobu Hanaoka was only 8-months-old when the US dropped Fat Man — a Plutonium bomb — on the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Sep 25, 2017 HT Correspondent Hindustan Times, New Delhi
“Does he have all five fingers?” This was a Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor’s first question to the doctor when his son was born.Nobu Hanaoka, 73, says he was relieved when the doctor replied that his son was in perfect health. “I had hoped that the radiation did not affect the child,” Hanaoka told Al Jazeera.
Hanaoka was only eight months old when the US dropped ‘Fat Man’ — a Plutonium bomb — on the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, killing about 74,000 people. Three days before, ‘Little Boy’ — the first-ever atomic bomb, dropped on Hiroshima — had claimed 140,000 lives.
Hanaoka — clad in a simple, grey coat, has a message for the United States and North Korea as tensions escalate between the two countries over the possibility of a nuclear war.
“This is the kind of weapon that doesn’t just kill. It kills indiscriminately. It kills slowly and painfully.”
“And it shouldn’t be allowed on the surface of the Earth,” the survivor says after a pause.
“We were not even in the city of Nagasaki. We were outside. And yet the radiation that came from the bombing went far beyond the city limits,” Hanaoka said, before explaining the three ways an atomic bomb can kill.
Hanaoka’s mother and sister died due to radiation when he was six, he says, adding that he overheard the doctor telling his father the boy wouldn’t live to see his 10th birthday. “So I knew that I was not going to live long,” Hanaoka says in the video.
The atomic bomb survivor says he was always concerned for his health and feared he was dying when he got a simple cold. He also had survivor’s guilt, a mental condition in which a person feels remorse for surviving a traumatic event when others did not. “Why did my sister and mother, who were wonderful people… beautiful and smart and gentle, and they had to die.”
“And yet, I, who am not unworthy, am still alive?”
“I want all nations to come together and start finding a way of eliminating nuclear weapons altogether,” Hanaoka tells Al Jazeera after warning that there will be millions of casualties if either the US or North Korea is attacked with radioactive weapons.
North Korea’s foreign minister Ri Yong Ho told the United Nations General Assembly last week that targeting the US mainland with its rockets was inevitable after “Mr Evil President” Donald Trump called Pyongyang’s leader a “rocket man” on a suicide mission.
Trump, too, dialled up the rhetoric against North Korea over the weekend, warning Ho that he and its leader Kim Jong Un “won’t be around much longer” as Pyongyang staged a major anti-US rally.
The North had threatened to “sink” Japan into the sea and fired two missiles over the northern island of Hokkaido in the space of less than a month. Pyongyang said this month it had carried out an underground test on a hydrogen bomb estimated to be 16 times the size of the US bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945. It was its sixth and largest nuclear test.
Survivors of Hiroshima-Nagasaki — the only two nuclear attacks in the history of mankind — warned of the threat of atomic weapons in a photo essay by the Time magazine last month. It quoted another survivor Fujio Torikoshi (86) as saying all he wanted was to forget the bombing. “We cannot continue to sacrifice precious lives to warfare. All I can do is pray – earnestly, relentlessly – for world peace.”
EVENT
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