[Greens-Media] Senator Milne's Palm Sunday message

[O'Connor, Cassy (Sen C. Milne)]

				Senator Milne's Palm Sunday message

				"Nuclear power push a threat to world
peace"


				Hobart, Sunday April 1, 2007  Australian
Greens Climate Change Spokesperson, Senator Christine Milne, told a
crowd at today's Palm Sunday Peace Rally in Hobart that nuclear power
poses a serious threat to world peace and that we must move towards
renewable energy both to prevent catastrophic climate change and create
lasting peace.

				Senator Milne said "The two old parties'
determination to dig Australia even deeper into the nuclear cycle poses
a serious threat to world peace. As Nobel Prize Winner Hannes Alver has
said, 'Civil nuclear power cannot be divorced from military
applications. The military atom and the civil atom are Siamese twins.'

				"When Chinese officials have explicitly
said that China does not have enough uranium for both its civilian
nuclear program and its weapons program, it is blatantly clear that the
more uranium we mine and export, the more likely it is that nuclear
weapons will proliferate.

				"Earlier this year, the Bulletin of
Atomic Scientists moved their famous Doomsday Clock two minutes forward
- to five minutes to midnight - in part because of climate change and
the push to use nuclear power as a solution.

				"Renewable energy technologies can
tackle climate change far faster than nuclear power ever could, and they
cannot be used as weapons of war. It is only through a transition to
renewable energy that we can have a peaceful solution to energy
security.

				"This Palm Sunday, we should all be
sending a clear message to John Howard, Kevin Rudd and their parties: if
nuclear power is not safe for Australia, then it is not safe anywhere in
the world. Leave our uranium in the ground."


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