Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.
India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries.
Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.
Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.
We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
I am a very big proponent of opening the borders with India. Most of our trade is done through unofficial channels. Why not open the trade?
India is one of the world's largest and most peaceful states with advanced nuclear technologies and has been isolated from the rest of the world on nuclear issues.
Political pundits in Delhi and Islamabad have berated the West for its relativism and double-standards. After all why should Britain have a nuclear arsenal but not India? It is a reasonable question.
India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.