October 2005 Update
WASTE DUMP BANNER FOR BOB HAWKE

Members of the Ant-Nuclear Alliance outside their Maylands headquarters have been sorting banners to decorate the Fremantle Town Hall for the Public Meeting "Don't Nuke the Climate". SUNDAY 9 OCTOBER 2-5pm.

(They'd like to dedicate this banner to Bob Hawke in particular but also to anyone else who thinks we should be digging up more uranium, as this will obviously create more nuclear waste which they will try to be dump somewhere!)

Alistair Stephens

The Arafura Resources chief told the Federal Parliamentary committee on Friday 23rd September 2005:

“Australia could be the best place for waste storage given our ideal geological locations, political stability and responsible attitudes.”

Bob Hawke

On Wednesday 26 September 2005 At Sydney 's Westin Hotel Bob Hawke was invited by compere Alan Jones to air his opinions on uranium.

“Well, I have a view of what we should do that would revolutionise the Australian economy and would also make an enormous contribution to the world environment. Australia has the geologically safest places in the world for the storage of (nuclear) waste. What Australia should do, in my judgment, as an act of economic responsibility, is say we will take the world's nuclear waste.”

"If we were to do that, we would have a source of income ... which we could hypothecate to environmental issues in this country - salinity, also to Aborigines because this would be in an area where the Aboriginal people would be and I have reason to believe that we could negotiate with them,"

State Liberal shadow lands minister Ken Baston

He said on Friday 30 September 2005 if Australia was going to export uranium it should be looking at storing the waste.

“There obviously is an opportunity for Australia to be a responsible nation in storing nuclear waste and obviously be paid accordingly,” he said.

What others have said in the past in support of Nuke Dumping in WA:

Colin Barnett, Hansard 20 April 1999

I believe that uranium mining can and should take place in Western Australia with all the appropriate safeguards. That is unlikely to happen in the short term - it is at least five years away. As I have said in response to questions asked by the media, I believe that any country which is a significant producer of uranium has some moral and international responsibility to be part of the debate (PANGEA).

Australian 18-08-99

"I think we as a country, indeed as a State with significant uranium reserves, will probably in the future see some of those reserves developed. Therefore, we have an economic, a social and a regional responsibility to be part of the debate about the safe disposal of waste from uranium."

Richard Court, 1st November 1994, 6PR

With reference to the establishment of a national nuclear waste dump in the Goldfields:

“Provided a proposal met the strictest possible guidelines and the people of the Goldfields were keen to have the project, I think it is something that could get support”

Senator Ross Lightfoot, March 30th 1999

Media Release by Senator Lightfoot

“The proposal by Pangea Resources to store nuclear waste in Western Australia has surprised people but should not be ruled out. If the plan can be proven to be safe then it would be a hugely profitable new industry."