There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
With so much at risk, you might expect Australia to be at the forefront of the clean-energy revolution and the international effort to cut carbon pollution. After all, the continent's vast, empty deserts were practically designed for solar-power installations.
Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.
I do not believe we can effectively move Australia to a lower emission economy, which is what we need to do if we're going to make a contribution to a global reduction in greenhouse gases, without putting a price on carbon.
Australia is a resource-rich nation. We have been good at exploiting our minerals base and agricultural sector for exports.
I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.
I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.
When you look at the number of nuclear power plants in China and India, we can't afford not to pursue similar alternative energy sources. If we do not, it would do immense harm to the manufacturing industry in the Midwest.
I believe we have the potential to quadruple Australia's food exports to Asia.
I want to see a connected and progressive future for Australia, where we harness our greatest natural resources: sun, wind, and brain power.
Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.