ALP doesn't want parliament to have nuclear say...

Last month the three Greens MLCs joined the Liberals, Nationals and DLP in the upper house to defeat a Labor Party bill that would have enabled the Government to call a plebiscite of Victorian voters if the Federal Government tried to override state laws and build a nuclear reactor in Victoria.

As a reaction to the defeat of the bill the ALP have come up with the poster (below) which it intends to distribute around Melbourne and Monash Uni's as well as Greens heartland areas of Melbourne, Brunswick, Northcote and Richmond.

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The simple truth is the Bill was a bad piece of legislation, because:

It would have given sole responsibility for crafting a question for a plebiscite on nuclear energy to the Minister, and the Minister only.

There was nothing to prevent the Minister writing the question in such a way as to make nuclear energy appear acceptable.

Our MLCs will be drafting a private members Bill to enshrine in the Victorian constitution that it will be the Parliament, not an individual Minister that decides on questions to be put to a plebiscite.

Amazingly Steve Bracks, who apparently does not support nuclear energy, voted to dump the ALP's three mine policy at their national conference last weekend. This is a diversion from the real issue being the expansion of uranium mining under a federal Labor government, which Bracks voted for and supported.

Source of image http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/greens-see-red/2007/05/07/1178390226037.html