Movement Against Uranium Mining

The Movement Against Uranium Mining (MAUM) (German: Movement against Uranium Mining ) was a movement in Australia that started in the mid-1970s in Haymarket NSW and campaigned against the dangers of uranium mining that arise for people and the environment and organized political Resistance to it. The MAUM saw the danger of radioactive waste that arises in the operation of nuclear power plants and that emanates from the proliferation of nuclear weapons of mass destruction and organized a campaign against it.

As early as 1976, resistance to uranium mining, which was also supported by the unions, led to a one-day strike by railroad workers against uranium mining in Mary Kathleen . The government of the Liberal Party of Malcolm Fraser , who was from 1977 to 1983 in Australia in power, allowed the operation of three uranium mines. The Australian Labor Party was in favor of uranium mining until 1977, after which it was against. Several public actions by MAUM against uranium mining took place, such as a 1981 demonstration in Victoria against Australian nuclear policy . The Movement Against Uranium Mining supported the ALP in the national election of 1983 and when it won the election, the anti-nuclear movement in Australia assumed that it had had political success with its cause and disbanded its political platform.

See also

• Anti-nuclear movement in Australia
• Uranium mining in Australia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Document: Uranium mining in Australia on www.reasoninrevolt ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Document on www.reasoninrevolt ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Brian Martin (1984): Strategy against nuclear power, Friends of the Earth in Canberra from 1984 . Retrieved February 15