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During the 2004 federal election, the federal environment minister Ian Campbell promised voters there would be no nuclear dump in the NT. The minister actually said “Territorians can take that as an absolute categorical assurance”.
Then, during the 2005 NT election, CLP Senator Nigel scullion gave similar guarantees, promising Territorians they wouldn’t get a dump : “Not on my watch”
But in July 2005, with these elections safely out of the way, federal Science Minister Dr Brendan Nelson revealed plans to site a national nuclear waste dump in the NT. He told Territorians they “need to take a reality check”, asking “why on earth can’t people in the middle of nowhere have low-level and intermediate level waste?”
Territorians were justifiably outraged, and have formed grassroots action groups in Alice Springs, Darwin and Katherine. The NT Government has vowed to use every tool available to them to fight with Territorians against an unwanted and unnecessary radioactive waste dump.
see http://www.no-waste.org/ or http://ntnews.info/breaking.php for more information
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Palm Sunday has a long history across the world where people come together and mobilise for a peaceful future and nuclear disarmament.
But this year, Palm Sunday this year falls on April 1 – April Fools Day.
As such, a growing collaboration of groups has seized upon the opportunity to come together, in this federal election year, to demand our political representatives stop their Nuclear Foolishness, instead creating a future for Australia that is free uranium mines, nuclear waste dumps, nuclear power stations and to get out from under the American Nuclear weapons umbrella.
In Darwin, we’ll mark the occassion at Nightcliff Markets, with music, speakers, street theatre and more …
Gather at 11am on the Oleander St side of the markets. Prizes for the most foolish costume.
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Nuclear Fools Day 2007 will be a national day of action across Australia, with flagship events in Melbourne and Sydney a matter of weeks before the pivotal Australian Labor Party (ALP) national conference on April 29 at which the ALP position on the uranium industry in Australia.
For a peaceful and nuclear free future!
* STOP NUCLEAR POWER IN AUSTRALIA: RENEWABLES NOT REACTORS!
* STOP URANIUM MINING: LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND!
* STOP NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND WARS: REJECT THE US NUCLEAR UMBRELLA!
* STOP NUCLEAR WASTE: NO WASTE DUMP IN AUSTRALIA!