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- 2023 article on the remarkable victory of Barngarla Traditional Owners over the federal government, preventing the imposition of a national nuclear waste dump on Barngarla Country near Kimba.
- Nuclear powered submarines for Australia?
- Nuclear threats in Ukraine due to Russian invasion
- The Politics of Nuclear Waste Disposal: Lessons from Australia. Published by the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network. In this report, Jim Green and Dimity Hawkins explore Australia’s long and complex engagement with nuclear waste issues. With the failure to remediate atomic bomb test sites, and repeated failures to establish a national nuclear waste repository, the approaches of successive Australian governments to radioactive waste management deserve close scrutiny.
- April 2024: Coalition “in a panic” about response to confused and unpopular nuclear power plan
- April 2024: Peter Dutton’s nuclear push is a “suicide note” playing mostly to right wing echo chambers
- March 2024: The demise of nuclear power in Australia’s AUKUS partner countries
- Nuclear goes backwards, again, as wind and solar enjoy another year of record growth. Nuclear power went backwards in 2023 while renewables enjoyed record growth for the 22nd year in a row.
- Vale Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, fierce advocate for his people and a nuclear free Australia
- Small modular nuclear reactors: a history of failure (Nov. 2023 article)
- June 2023: Small Modular Reactors and ‘Advanced’ or ‘Generation IV’ Reactor Concepts, 31-page FoE briefing paper
- Jan 2023 – Submission to Senate nuclear power inquiry by FoE and 10 other Australian environment groups.
- Celebrating some wins of the anti-nuclear movement: – Kungkas stop the nuclear dump ‒ FoE exposes uranium cartel ‒ Jabiluka stopped! ‒ SA as the world’s nuclear waste dump ‒ No dump at Muckaty.
- Nuclear power myth-busting Q&A
- Nuclear Waste and Floods
- Small Modular Reactors, 2021 briefing paper
- Nuclear Power’s Economic Crisis and its Implications for Australia, Dec. 2021 report by Friends of the Earth Australia
- 2019 statement opposing nuclear power in Australia with 50+ signatory groups including overwhelming support from Australia’s trade unions.
- Australian uranium fuelled Fukushima and now fuels global insecurity (March 2021 article in The Ecologist)
- Legislation banning nuclear power in Australia should be retained (Feb. 2021 article in RenewEconomy)
- Check out the ‘Don’t Nuke the Climate’ website, facebook, instagram, twitter
- Video collection – Friends of the Earth anti-nuclear films (mostly historical)
- The case for strengthened regulation of Australia’s uranium industry: April 2020 submission to EPBC Review Committee
- Sept. 2019 – Australian environment groups’ submission to federal nuclear power inquiry (lots on nuclear economics, ‘generation IV’ concepts, small modular reactors etc).
- The ‘advanced’ nuclear power sector is fuelling climate change, and WMDs (article in RenewEconomy)
- 2019 – updated links to lots of Australian and international literature on clean energy options
- July 2018: Aboriginal First Nations and Australia’s pro-nuclear ‘environmentalists’. Self-styled pro-nuclear environmentalists share the same retrograde attitudes towards Aboriginal people as government and industry.
- A journey to the heart of the antinuclear resistance in Australia: 2018 Radioactive Exposure Tour of South Australia (written by Ray Acheson from Reaching Critical Will)
- Feb 2018 – Standing Strong 2015-17: How South Australians won the campaign against an international high-level nuclear waste dump. Fabulous new e-book produced by Friends of the Earth and other groups.
- Feb 2018 – Mirarr Traditional Owners in the NT are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the mass movement that defeated the Jabiluka uranium mine. The first initiative to mark the anniversary is a ‘Standing Strong’ calendar – to order the calendar and to see an online (PDF) version click here.
- August 2017: The new version of the Australian Nuclear Map is available – click here to see the map and click here to visit the website. To order A2 posters email us.
- April 2017 – FoE submission to NT inquiry: Radiation Risks and Fracking
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