Mining Issues
Australia has the largest reserves of uranium in the world and there has been a number of enquiries on uranium mining. The anti-nuclear movement in Australia is actively opposing mining as well as preventing the construction of nuclear power plants.
At least 150 leaks, spills and licence breaches have occurred at the Ranger uranium mine between 1981 and 2009.
See also: Uranium mining controversy in Kakadu National Park and List of Australian Inquiries into Uranium MiningRead more about this topic: Environmental Issues In Australia
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“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or a German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making “ladies” dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”
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