Spring Clean in Western Australia

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ANAWA is pleased to announce the launch of the 'Spring Clean' campaign. The aim of this campaign is to hold the Labor Party to a promise they made to debate the Greens (WA) Nuclear Activities (Prohibition) Bill 2001 in the spring sitting of Parliament.

This key promise may at last see the ALP follow through on their election commitment to ban uranium mining, nuclear waste dumping and other nuclear activities in Western Australia.

To remind Premier Geoff Gallop of this unfinished business, ANAWA - with your help - fundraised to print several thousand of these postcards, each with a message on the back requesting that the ALP end the nuclear industry's designs on WA once and for all.

Tell me more...
Find out more detail on the Nuclear Activities (Prohibition) Bill 2001

Why do we want to ban uranium mining?
There are more than enough reasons. Here are a few.

Download the flyer
We have a printable version of an A4 flyer which you can splatter everywhere.

Didn't we already ban waste dumps in WA?
In November 1999 the WA Parliament passed “The Nuclear Waste Storage (Prohibition) Act 1999” in response to the clear demonstration of opposition by the WA community to the Pangea Project. In theory, this law bans the importa-tion of nuclear waste into Western Australia.

In practice, the bill was crippled on its way through Parliament and Pangea later went on to admit that they could ‘drive a truck’ through it.

The new bill sorts out the problems of the shonky definition of nuclear waste and the transportation of nuclear material in the Nuclear Waste Storage (Prohibition) Act. In fact it will make this Act redundant and so seeks to have it repealed.

• Giz Watson MLC
  author of the bill in question
• Download the bill as a PDF file

People to contact:

• Clive Brown MLA
  Minister for State Development - if you have time for one email, make it this one.
• Judy Edwards MLA
  Minister for the Environment
• Geoff Gallop MLA
  Premier of WA
• more ALP links...
  
  Please call, write or flood them with emails...they are waiting to hear from you!