Nuclear

Friends of the Earth Adelaide has made a submission to the AUKUS Public Inquiry. Based on decades of experience regarding nuclear waste management issues and debates in Australia, our submission focused on those problems insofar as they relate to AUKUS.    By rights, the parliament should conduct a genuine public ...

Independent Environmental campaigner David Noonan has labelled the time period given to scrutinise updates to legislation governing BHP’s Roxby Downs mine as a “farce”, while the Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis says opponents want to "thwart this investment". BHP seeks 50-year mining rights to expand Olympic Dam mine, as SA Labor Ministers ...

FOE Adelaide Submission to the Select Committee on Roxby Downs (Indenture Ratification) (Amendment of Indenture) Amendment Bill 2026  Summary: This brief submission covers Community concern over the Bill’s rushed inadequate process, extended legal privileges to BHP interests, toxic mining waste, Traditional Owner rights, and continued threats to Mound Springs & ...

In March, Friends of the Earth Adelaide sent a letter to Prime Minister Albanese calling for the government to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). https://adelaidefoe.org/treaty-on-prohibition-of-nuclear-weapons-time-for-australia-to-sign/ At the end of May we followed up with a letter to several other (mostly South Australian) Labor ...

Friends of the Earth Adelaide has sent a letter to Prime Minister Albanese calling on the Australian government to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Labor's National Platform commits to doing so, but the Labor government has not done so yet. We intend to follow ...