Western Australia encompasses a third of the area of the Australian continent. It is the last frontier for the nuclear industry - no uranium mines have ever gone into full production in Western Australia.

A major exploration boom is now under way across Western Australia, prompted by the surging price of uranium and a co-ordinated attempt by the industry to paint itself as the saviour of climate change. While the Carpenter Government remains opposed to uranium mining, it is allowing this wave of exploration to occur, and a host of companies are proclaiming that uranium mining is only a matter of time.

The people of WA express their anti-nuclear feelings in a variety of ways. From moves in state parliament, support for mine blockades, Nuclear Free Zone declarations to street theatre, the movement for a nuclear free future has a strong base in the local community.

• Uranium Mining
  Uranium is found right across WA, from the Kimberley region of the far north-west down to the Goldfields east of Kalgoorlie. The heaviest concentrations are found around the large Yeelirrie deposit in the mid-west, and it is here that many of WA's most advanced proposals are found.
  • Download the state of play in Western Australia
  • Yeelirrie - BHPB have taken over the old WMC site which has at last been cleaned up.
  • Kintyre - Cut from the Rudall River National Park, Rio Tinto's Kintyre proposal has always been opposed by the local Traditional Owners, the Martu People.
  • Manyingee - The most likely first mine for WA if Paladin Resources get their way.
  • Lake Maitland - Held by Redport, one of the new crop
  • Nowthanna - Satellite deposit in Acclaim's former 'Murchison Prospect'.
  • Centipede-Millipede - smallest deposit in Acclaim's 'former Murchison Prospect'.
  • Lake Way - Little known radioactive mess south of Wiluna.
  • Oobagooma - Paladin's second-order deposit in the Kimberley.
  • Ponton - Paladin's other likely prospect in the eastern Goldfields
  • Mulga Rock - Eagefield now hold the Japanese PNC eastern Goldfields holding.
  
  
• Spring Clean 2002
  Let's do away with the stuff altogether
• Banning the Lot
  Find out about moves by the Greens (WA) to ban uranium mining and nuclear waste dumping in Western Australia.
• The Pangea Nuclear Waste Dump
  In 1998 Western Australians unexpectedly found themselves the target of a proposal for an international commercial nuclear waste dump. Find out more about this plan, which was hatched from an office highrise in Perth.
• Nuclear Free Zones
  What better way to demonstrate anti-nuclear sentiment than declare your shire or city a nuclear free zone? Find out how it's done.
• The Environmental Approval Process
  How a uranium mine would be approved in Western Australia: get familiar with the process.
• Nuclear Weapons Tests
  A dark episode from early in the Cold War: British nuclear weapons tests off WA's north-west coast at the Monte Bello Islands.
• Political Lobbying
  Notes on how the WA parliament works and links to important government departments.
• CANNWA
  Joining the Community Anti-Nuclear Network (CANNWA) is the simplest way to get involved in the campaign at the grassroots level.