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- Mark Duffett: As for Fukushima, here Senator Ludlam serves as an exemplar against freedom of speech. Because fears such as he is fanning have led to a massive overreaction in response, with casualties in the... (31 March 2017)
Read comment | All by this user - Mark Duffett: The usual scaremongering par excellence from Ludlam. Note the lack of any evidence for the dire outcomes he invokes. The truth is diametrically opposite. The peer-reviewed literature shows that... (31 March 2017)
Read comment | All by this user - Dwight Walker: See ABS submission to Inquiry into 2016 Census to Senate Economics References Committee 21/9/16: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6fRXFvYdlVKLVRPNF94WUIyNXc /view (26 September 2016)
Read comment | All by this user - Mark Duffett: "Why is it that the nuclear industry looks for these remote high-isolation sites?" Because people like you fearmonger so shamelessly and irresponsibly, Senator Ludlam. And before you ask,... (25 February 2016)
Read comment | All by this user - Mark Duffett: No matter how often and how clearly and for how many decades it continues to be demonstrated that there is no link, Ludlam is apparently genuinely incapable of thinking about anything to do with... (25 November 2015)
Read comment | All by this user - Mark Duffett: "nobody, not even the best engineers and technologists in the world, in Russia, in Japan and in North America have ever figured out how to make it work." More rubbish:... (19 August 2015)
Read comment | All by this user - Mark Duffett: "The world nuclear industry:status report 2015...has been in publication for six or seven years now, and it is an extraordinarily valuable resource. They do not bring an agenda—they would not... (19 August 2015)
Read comment | All by this user - Helen Dawson: Worse than a poor excuse to boil water, any nuclear industry encouragement will open the way for using past test sites like Maralinga as nuclear dumps for the world's nuclear waste. Nuclear... (26 March 2015)
Read comment | All by this user - Luke Walker: I think the larger point has been overlooked here, in that if it's currently illegal to process spent fuel rods in Australia, then SA Govt. launching a royal commission seems like a poor choice... (22 March 2015)
Read comment | All by this user - Mark C-F: Mark Duffett: "Internationally, the tide is running against the nuclear sector with reactor numbers declining and market share shrinking. [...] China remains the only significant exception to the... (20 March 2015)
Read comment | All by this user - Mark Duffett: "the industry is going out the back door fast"?! China is building dozens of reactors. 266 are slated for construction globally by 2030. It is Ludlam who is misleading the Senate. The industry... (19 March 2015)
Read comment | All by this user - Mark Duffett: Has Ludlam misled the parliament? There appears to be no evidence that any radiation was released in the March 1993 incident at NAPS that he mentions, let that anyone copped a 'huge' (whatever... (3 September 2014)
Read comment | All by this user - Mark Duffett: The antidote to Ludlam's scaremongering and disgraceful 'light of a thousand suns' conflation with nuclear weaponry: http://bravenewclimate.com/2014/06/25/where-do-you-want-nucl ear-waste/ (27 June 2014)
Read comment | All by this user - Mark Duffett: If this is the "worst radioactivity disaster in Australian history", then it's an excellent argument for uranium mining! The ecological impact outside the mine area is and will remain zero. (16 December 2013)
Read comment | All by this user - Mark Duffett: Ludlam is being extremely economical with the truth about Spanish solar thermal. He mentions '365 day cycle' and '24/7', but note he does not say '24/7/365'. That's because its true production... (10 December 2013)
Read comment | All by this user - Mark Duffett: Whereas nuclear installation outputs routinely averages over 80% of its capacity. (1 March 2013)
Read comment | All by this user - Mark Duffett: "if all of those wind farms were operating at maximum output" Which never actually happens. NEVER. On the other hand, total output of Australia's wind turbines amounting to less than 5% of... (1 March 2013)
Read comment | All by this user - Mark Duffett: Australian uranium has avoided the combustion of millions of tonnes of coal. It has killed nobody. (1 November 2012)
Read comment | All by this user - Mark Duffett: The value of electricity generated by Australian uranium in Japan is many times the cost of any actual damage it has caused. Most of the Fukushima evacuations were unnecessary, as was the trauma... (23 August 2012)
Read comment | All by this user - Mark Duffett: 'An industry we can do without', because the climate's no problem, emissions are falling...oh wait. Germany reckoned they could do without nuclear - so they're in the processing of opening a... (17 August 2012)
Read comment | All by this user - Mark Duffett: "will not rest until the uranium mining industry is phased out in Australia" - do that, Senator Ludlam, and you will have done more damage to the planet than any amount of mining. (12 October 2011)
Read comment | All by this user - Sue Jefferies: Thank you for presenting this, it breaks my heart that trade & money mean more to other Australian Senators than peace and compassion. The Dalai Lama does not hold himself up to be a religious... (23 June 2010)
Read comment | All by this user - Henare Degan: Here's the Leader of the Opposition's speech Senator Ludlam was referring to: http://www.openaustralia.org/debate/?id=2009-06-01.35.1 (16 June 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - Joel Dignam: Haha! Standing up for human rights. It's almost as if he thinks ideas, vision and policy are more important than political rhetoric! (20 March 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - ben rogers: exactly! this is an awesome opportunity to make ready for the transition to a reduced carbon economy. (5 December 2008)
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