Lyn Allison (Victoria, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Minister, the House of Reps report also unanimously recommends an expansion of uranium mining and export. Is the minister aware that there are almost as many nuclear weapons around the world now as there were when the nuclear non-proliferation treaty was signed some 30 years ago and that the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency has called for greater action and strengthening of nuclear proliferation safeguards, specifically to tighten controls for access to nuclear fuel cycle technology and to accelerate global efforts to protect nuclear material? Minister, shouldn’t Australia wait until the safeguards are strengthened before we put more uranium on the market?