Lyn Allison (Victoria, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister. Minister, when the government made the deal at APEC to sell uranium to Russia was it aware that 21 journalists have been killed in Russia, including the contract killing of well-known investigative journalists, since President Putin came to power? Did the government consider the fact that Russia has a habit of losing nuclear material? I understand that a lot of fissile material went missing after the break-up of the Soviet Union which is missing to this day. Does the government know that Russia has done deals with rogue states such as Iran, Syria and Myanmar including the onselling of uranium to those countries? Why did the government not insist that Russia ratify the additional protocol of the NPT? Why was Russia not asked to dismantle its remaining 10,000 weapons? Is it the case that the government has put mining money ahead of human rights and international security?