RSS Feed
December 4th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Labor delegates including Wayne Swan and Julia Gillard vote for the uranium plan today. Picture: Renee Nowytarger
Source: Herald Sun
UPDATE 1.42pm: LABOR has backed Julia Gillard’s plan to sell uranium to India after a heated and emotional debate.
MPs clashed over the issue and protesters were marched from Sydney’s convention centre before the Prime Minister’s motion to remove a party ban on uranium sales to India was narrowly supported 206 votes to 185.
Before the vote, left-wing Senator Doug Cameron said it would be a “tragedy” if Labor changed its platform to allow nuclear material to be shipped to the Asian giant, and that it was impossible for the Prime Minister to put proper safeguards in place.
But the PM said the change would mean a boost in jobs and would help Australia take advantage of the “Asian century”.
Ms Gillard said it was not “rational” for Labor to maintain its ban on selling the nuclear material to India when Australia continues to export uranium to China.
Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar.
End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar.
She urged delegates at her party’s national conference to support her plan and stressed that appropriate safeguards would be in place to ensure uranium sent to India was only used for peaceful means.
“Selling uranium to India… (will mean) strengthening our strategic partnership with India in this, the Asian century,” Ms Gillard said.
“It’s good for trade, it’s good for jobs, it’s good for the nation.”
Senator Cameron slammed the plan.
“I don’t want Labor’s light on the hill to be a green, pulsating, nuclear light,” he said.
“Prime Minister you are wrong (on this), ministers you are wrong.”
Union powerbroker Paul Howes said Senator Cameron was just grandstanding to get on television.
He said Australia should sell uranium to India and take advantage of jobs on offer as a result.
Ms Gillard was also strongly backed by Resources Minister Martin Ferguson and Defence Minister Stephen Smith.
But long-time anti-nuclear campaigner Peter Garrett spoke against the motion.
“Labor has a great disarmament tradition, that’s why I’m here,” he said.
“Where is our vision here, where is our commitment to a nuclear-free future?”
Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese also said he disagreed.
“Nine months after Fukushima is not the time to be expanding our uranium exports,” he told the conference.
Anti-nuclear protests disrupted the debate early on, with one man being dragged away by security while several others were thrown out of the convention centre.
They chanted “no uranium mining”.
“Leave it in the ground, leave it in the ground, leave it in the ground,” they chanted.
Posted in 
Tags: 
