Friday, 4 May
2007
MEDIA RELEASE
Garret’s
Anti-Nuclear Campaign Undermined by Labor Conference’s Endorsement of further
Uranium Mining
Local Greens have
described as “hypocritical” Peter Garret’s letter boxing of a newsletter
opposing nuclear reactors despite his party’s renewed support for uranium
mining.
Randwick Greens
Councillor Murray Matson said the message in the newsletter was hypocritical
because the Labor party had “*essentially voted to support nuclear power via
expanded uranium mining at its’ National Conference just days before”.
Cr Matson said,
“Last weekend the
Labor party dropped its’ opposition to expanded uranium mining. This week
Garret distributed a letter box leaflet opposing proposals for nuclear reactors
in Australia. Where does he think nuclear reactors get their fuel from?”
Cr Matson said
further,
“Garret can’t
claim he is campaigning against Howard’s nuclear power program when he himself
is a member of a party that supports Australian uranium being used for the
international nuclear power industry. It will be very bad if Botany Bay is
chosen as a nuclear power station site, but how can Garret campaign effectively
against it if the Labor party is willing to supply the fuel for it?”
Cr Matson was an
anti-nuclear activist in the mid 1980’s and early 1990’s with the Sydney based
Movement Against Uranium Mining.