Movements_Campaigns - Anti nuclear_Uranium- Commons Library

Lessons in Success from Nuclear Campaigns

Part history lesson, part preparation for today’s fight. There is a powerful history of anti nuclear movements across Australia.

The Nuclear Truth Project works towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons and associated nuclear harms.

A collection of campaigns that changed South Australia. e.g. women’s suffrage; uranium testing, mining and dumping; Fight for the Bight.

A collection of campaigns that changed the Northern Territory. e.g. Wave Hill Walk Off, Jabiluka, Pine Gap & Anti-Fracking.

Read about the history of opposition to uranium mining in Australia in the 1970s and early 1980s regarding union bans and uranium exports.

Access and learn about environmental conflict case studies in Australia and around the world using the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice.

A case study about what made anti-nuclear activism successful in Aotearoa New Zealand between the 1960s – 1980s.

Street marches and trade union action typified Australian resistance to uranium mining and exports as well as proposals to build nuclear reactors.

Blockades that changed Australia including Jabiluka, the Bentley blockade, S11 and Nookanbah.

Historical overview of the Australian movement against uranium mining, focussed on two major campaigns: Roxby and Jabiluka.