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

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that the Medical University of South Carolina has conducted a sophisticated meta-analysis of 17 research papers covering 136 nuclear sites throughout the Western World with the following findings:

(i)

death rates from leukaemia for children up to 9 years of age were between 5 per cent and 24 per cent higher depending on their proximity to nuclear facilities,

(ii)

death rates from leukaemia for those up to 25 years of age were 2 per cent to 18 per cent higher, and

(iii)

incidence rates of leukaemia were increased by 14 per cent to 21 per cent in zero to 9 year olds and 7 to 10 per cent in zero to 25 year olds;

(b)

considers that research such as this shows the health impact of nuclear activity; and

(c)

urges the Government not to proceed with uranium enrichment or nuclear power reactors in Australia in the light of this research.

Question put.