Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes:

(i)

the inherent nuclear weapons proliferation risk associated with uranium enrichment,

(ii)

that in 2004 President Bush proposed to cap the group of enriching states and that the United Nations’ Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change called for the creation of incentives for states to forego the development of uranium enrichment and reprocessing capacity,

(iii)

that in 2005 the International Atomic Energy Agency Director, Dr Mohamed ElBaradei proposed a 5-year moratorium on constructing uranium enrichment and nuclear reprocessing facilities, and

(iv)

that a domestic enrichment plant would provide Australia with the capacity to produce fissile material in the form of highly-enriched uranium, a development that may destabilise the Asia Pacific region; and

(b)

therefore opposes the development of any uranium enrichment facilities on Australian soil.

Question put.

A division having been called and the bells being rung—

Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I draw senators’ attention to the fact that this is the motion which opposes the development of any uranium enrichment facilities on Australian soil. I remind senators of all parties that it is a good time for anybody who has shares in uranium mines and has not declared that to do so before this vote.

John Hogg (Queensland, Deputy-President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Not if they are registered in the register; then they are properly before the Senate.