Senate debates

Wednesday, 18 March 2009

Matters of Public Interest

Nuclear Energy

1:42 pm

Photo of Scott LudlamScott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I am putting your name to that. Okay, that is on the record. We export uranium to all of the declared nuclear weapons states, apart from Russia, which I will return to in a moment. We are a close ally of a nuclear weapons state. We allow visits of warships armed with nuclear weapons; we host a network of foreign military bases in support of potential nuclear weapons strikes by our ally the United States.

The third reason is that we have a very significant nuclear waste problem in this country. Australia reaps more income from the export of cheese than from the export of uranium. Can we mark you down for that, Senator Boswell?

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