ABOUT PEOPLE FOR A NUCLEAR-FREE AUSTRALIA

PNFA congratulates Kevin Rudd and his government on their 2007 election victory!

PEOPLE FOR A NUCLEAR-FREE AUSTRALIA has been established to represent the millions of Australians who uphold the strong belief that there should be NO uranium mining, NO nuclear power plants and NO foreign nuclear waste in Australia.

The nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear power generation are embedded with many medical hazards. This fundamentally carcinogenic industry will induce cancer and genetic disease in this and all future generations, while it generates electricity for only 20 to 30 years.

PNFA encourages Australian citizens to comprehend the extraordinary dangers of exporting uranium and establishing a nuclear power industry and an international nuclear waste facility in this country; to develop the motivation to take personal responsibility to protect the future for our children and descendents; and to face up to our true moral responsibility – as we did in the 1970’s – when we forced France to test their nuclear weapons underground and formed a massive grass roots movement to prevent the mining and export of uranium.

Such intense activism is once again necessary today.

Australian politicians, most of whom are scientifically and medically illiterate, must be educated by their constituents to understand exactly what the export of uranium and local nuclear power generation will mean to this and all future generations.

Ominously, in June 2007 the Australian Labor Party’s longstanding No New Mines policy was overturned at the ALP national conference.

The Rudd Labor Government supports an expansion of uranium mining and export. Helen Caldicott and PNFA will spend much of 2008 educating Australians and the Rudd government about the inherent dangers of mining, enriching and exporting uranium.

Download PNFA Mission Statement 2008

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David Suzuki

David T. Suzuki PhD, Co-Founder of the David Suzuki Foundation, is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster.


David has received consistently high acclaim for his 30 years of award-winning work in broadcasting, explaining the complexities of science in a compelling, easily understood way. He is well known to millions as the host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's popular science television series, The Nature of Things.

He has received numerous awards including the Roger Tory Peterson Award from Harvard University. He is a Companion of the Order of Canada, and a member of the Order of British Columbia. He has received 20 honorary doctorates - 13 from Canada, four from the United States and three from Australia.

An internationally respected geneticist, David was a full Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver from 1969 until his retirement in 2001. He is professor emeritus with UBC's Sustainable Development Research Institute.

The author of 43 books, David Suzuki is recognized as a world leader in sustainable ecology.

Read more about about the David Suzuki Foundation at www.davidsuzuki.org/.

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John Butler

John Butler is many things to many people. To John’s family he is a much loved husband, father, brother, and son. To his ever growing fan base it is purely about the musical journey, the groove of the Trio, the soul of the guitar and the honesty and integrity of John’s lyrics.

To emerging independent artists John is an inspiration and patron to young acts struggling to establish themselves in an increasingly difficult and diluted marketplace. For guitar players John has reignited interest in open tunings, slide-playing and down-home tone, and has provided the motivation for many players to pick up the guitar, practice and get deep.

To people everywhere who believe in social equity, justice and the human spirit John’s words and actions have provided an audible, considered, independent voice and energy to many legitimate and universal concerns. For John however, the importance and focus has always been at the source, his family, his commitment, a voice, a guitar, a song, and the path they walk together.

Since he started out busking at Fremantle markets back in the early 90’s John Butler has become one of Australia’s most highly respected truly independent artists. Having released several EP’s, a live album and four studio albums including their most recent ‘Grand National’ which debuted at number one on the Australian Record Industry Awards (ARIA) charts, the John Butler Trio has received several industry accolades for their work including the prestigious Australian Performing Rights Association (APRA) song of the year for the single ‘Zebra’ and three ARIA Awards for the 2003 release ‘Sunrise Over Sea’ Best Independent Release, Best Blues and Roots Album and also Best Male artist.

In 2005 John and his partner Danielle Caruana set up The JB Seed Arts Grant Programme. Initially independently funded by John, the programme is designed to explore and encourage the social, cultural, and artistic diversity in Australian society. Visit www.thejbseed.com for more information.

The John Butler Trio is building a solid fan base as they continue on their journey taking their music to the world.

Visit www.thejohnbutlertrio.com for more information.

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Dr Helen Caldicott

An articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises, Dr Helen Caldicott has devoted the last 35 years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age and the necessary changes in human behavior to stop environmental destruction.

Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1938, Dr Caldicott received her medical degree from the University of Adelaide Medical School in 1961. She founded the Cystic Fibrosis Clinic at the Adelaide Children's Hospital in 1975 and subsequently was an instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and on the staff of the Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Mass.

In 1971, Dr Caldicott played a major role in Australia's opposition to French atmospheric nuclear testing in the Pacific; in 1975 she worked with the Australian trade unions to educate their members about the medical dangers of the nuclear fuel cycle, with particular reference to uranium mining.

While living in the United States from 1977 to 1986, she co-founded the Physicians for Social Responsibility, an organization of 23,000 doctors committed to educating their colleagues about the dangers of nuclear power, nuclear weapons and nuclear war which co-won the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.

She was one of the leaders of the US Nuclear Freeze Movement in the 1980s which helped to bring the Cold War to an end. She has authored six books, is the holder of 19 honorary degrees and is the recipient of the inaugural Australian Peace Prize and the Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom.

Dr Caldicott has also founded DOCTORS FOR A NUCLEAR-FREE AUSTRALIA (DNFA).

Read more about Dr Helen Caldicott at www.helencaldicott.com.

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PEOPLE FOR A NUCLEAR-FREE AUSTRALIA Advisory Board to be announced shortly.

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