AUST: Nukes blockade of Liberal HQ in Melbourne

*Media Release: Monday 19 November*

Election countdown continues: No time to – Radioactive – waste

* *For the past eight hours community activists locked to a one tonne
barrel of "nuclear waste" have blocked the front doors of the Liberal
Party State Office, 104 Exhibition Street, Melbourne. They have
committed to maintain their presence there until the federal election
this Saturday.

This is part of a National Day of Action by environmental and community
activists highlighting the dangerous nature of federal government plans
to impose a nuclear dump in the Northern Territory and the Coalition's
continued refusal to disclose its nuclear agenda to the Australian
community ahead of the federal election.

"The Coalition government has failed to consult or convince the
community over its plan for radioactive waste," said Friends of the
Earth (FoE) nuclear campaigner Michaela Stubbs.

"Along with pushing ahead with its "out of sight – out of mind" nuclear
waste dump in the NT the Coalition is trying to keep nuclear issues out
of the public eye ahead of the election.

They now need to come clean on the details of this dirty plan ahead of
the election. People have a right to know who and what we are voting for
this Saturday," said Ms Stubbs.

The controversial radioactive waste dump plan is facing growing
opposition in the NT and along the proposed transport routes. Federal
Labor has committed to halt the plan.

"There is no agreed or credible long term solution for the management of
radioactive waste," said Claire McCall from the Australian Student
Environment Network "The Coalition's plan is a secretive and dangerous
nuclear experiment that poses a long term risk to people and the
environment."

*Note: Detailed information on the political parties stand on nuclear
issues and a rating of their performance is available via
www.votenuclearfree.net < http://www.votenuclearfree.net/>*

*Photo Opportunity:* Radioactive waste spill at the Liberal Party State
Office, 104 Exhibition Street, Melbourne.*
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*Further information and comment:*

*Michaela Stubbs - 0429 136 935
Claire Mc Call - 0412 656 017
Monique Wicks - 0412 492 925*