Alexander Downer (Mayo, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

countries involved in the uranium fuel cycle. Since 1978 Australia has been a leading member of precisely such an organisation—the Nuclear Suppliers Group. What is interesting about the Leader of the Opposition is that this is once more a revelation of the character of the man. He makes a backflip because, of course, he is weak and he has not done his homework; he does not know what the existing policy is. For those people in the Labor Party caucus who are well-known champions of the three mines policy and run the old uranium scare campaigns, which are very much out of the 1960s and the 1970s, the Leader of the Opposition, in wanting to change the three mines policy, offers them his three point sop, which is to embrace the government’s existing policies. I am afraid that exposes the Leader of the Opposition for the weak and lazy opposition leader that he is.

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