Kevin Rudd didn’t need to talk uranium, says Julia Gillard



THE Prime Minister didn’t have to consult the Foreign Minister over a push to overturn a Labor ban on selling uranium to India because it was a party matter, Parliament has heard.


Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced last week she would bring on a debate at the Australian Labor Party national conference in December to change the party’s ban on uranium sales to India.

Currently Labor policy is that it will not sell uranium to any country that hasn’t signed the non-proliferation treaty.

But Ms Gillard wants this changed so India can buy Australian uranium.

Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said he wasn’t consulted on the decision before it was announced.

In question time today the Opposition asked both Ms Gillard and Mr Rudd why this was so.

“Our rules are that any member of the party from the prime minister to your local branch member … can put forward proposals for the party’s national conference,” Mr Rudd told Parliament.

“That’s what the Prime Minister’s done, I support her right to do so.”

Ms Gillard said she believed it was a leader’s call to raise the need to change the party’s platform on an issue.

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