Beazley wants Australia's three uranium mines policy axed

"Are we seeing the end of Labor's so-called "three mines policy"?

"After months of internal debate, the Labor leader Kim Beazley has announced that he now favours the expansion of uranium mining.

"The Labor Party's due to debate the policy change next April, but Mr Beazley who predicts that Australia's about to become the world's biggest supplier of uranium has now stated his position ..."
PM

Beazley's uranium plan a 'slippery slope'
"Greenpeace says Federal Opposition Leader Kim Beazley has stepped onto a 'slippery slope' with his proposed policy shift on uranium.

"Mr Beazley says it is time to dump Labor's three mines policy, which was first implemented by the party two decades ago ...

"... anti-nuclear campaigner Dr Helen Caldicott says the economy is not a worthwhile reason to mine more uranium.

"'We're like heroin pushers -- we say look the guy down the street is selling heroin, I've got to get in and sell mine first,' she said.

"'You don't do immoral things to make money.'

"Dr Caldicott says Mr Beazley's assurances on the safety of future mines are meaningless.

"'In the past 30 to 50 per cent of men who've mined uranium have developed lung cancer,' she said.

"'Our uranium miners have never been followed-up ever epidemiologically by our Government so he doesn't really know what the dangers are.'"
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