Senator LUDLAM (Western Australia) (15:01): I move:

That the Senate-

(a) congratulates the Government for maintaining Australia's longstanding policy of predicating bilateral nuclear cooperation agreements on the condition of membership to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; and

(b) calls on the Government to identify the countries to which it will not permit the sale of uranium.

Wednesday 19 October 2011 Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee

ACTING CHAIR: Thank you, Senator Xenophon. Senator Ludlam, do you have a couple of quick questions?

CHAIR: Thank you, Senator Eggleston. With the permission of the rest of the committee we will move through to national security, nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. Senator Ludlam.

Question Number: 1085

Senator Scott Ludlam asked the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations, in writing, on 29 August 2011:

With reference to the Aboriginal people of central Australia and the north west of Western Australia who were exposed to radioactive fallout or direct radiation exposure from atomic weapons testing by the British Nuclear Test Program of the 1950s and 1960s.

Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee
BUDGET ESTIMATES 2011-2012
Finance and Deregulation Portfolio
Department/Agency: Future Fund Management Agency
Outcome/Program: Management of the Future Fund
Senator: Ludlam
Question reference number: F34

The Federal Government must rule out any plan to sell uranium to India as that country refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Australian Greens said today.

Greens spokesperson on nuclear issues Senator Scott Ludlam said the revelation Australian officials were in talks with a view to selling uranium to the nuclear weapons state was alarming.

Senator LUDLAM (Western Australia) (16:35): I move:

That the Senate discuss the implications of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and Australia's participation at the High Level Meeting on Nuclear Safety and Security to be held on 22 September 2011 at the United Nations Headquarters.

The Barnett Government's secretive new deal with China will boost exploitation by foreign mining companies at a time when the resources boom is suffocating the rest of the Australian economy, the Greens said today.

Senator for Western Australia Scott Ludlam said a number of provisions in the Memorandum of Understanding set off alarm bells, chiefly the demand for total confidentiality.

The Australian Government needs to drop the platitudes and commit to the only real nuclear safety policy - the permanent closure of the nuclear industry - in the wake of another accident at a nuclear plant, the Australian Greens said today.

Greens spokesperson for nuclear affairs Senator Scott Ludlam said the Australia-France Joint Statement on Civil Nuclear Safety, issued on September 11th - the day before an explosion rocked the French nuclear plant of Marcoule - was a "declaration of delusion".

Question No. 364

Senator Ludlam asked the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, upon notice, on 17 December 2010: