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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I take it from the minister’s answer that he did not consider any of those human rights or international security matters. He also says that there will be a guarantee that this material will be used for Russia’s new reactors. I ask the minister to give us a guarantee that it will not be onsold, and I do not think he can do that. I ask as well: does the minister know that a poll conducted a short time ago showed that 66 per cent of Australians are against the selling of uranium to Russia? What mandate does the government have to make such deals—particularly as close as this is to the next election—that risk global security when the majority of Australians are against exporting uranium?