(The April 2007 ALP national conference voted to drop the ALP policy of opposition to new uranium mines.)

Labor will only allow the mining and export of uranium under the most stringent conditions, as described below.

• Ensure the safety of workers in the uranium industry is paramount, and establish a compulsory register for workers in the uranium industry that includes regular health checks and ongoing monitoring. Such a register would be held by an independent agency and be subject to privacy provisions.
• Ensure that Australian uranium mining, milling and rehabilitation is based on world best practice standards, on extensive continuing research on environmental impacts and on the health and safety of employees and affected communities, particularly Indigenous communities.

In relation to exports, Labor will allow the export of uranium only to those countries which observe the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), are committed to non-proliferation policies, have ratified international and bilateral nuclear safeguards agreements and maintain strict safeguards and security controls over their nuclear power industries.

In addition, Labor will work towards:

• strengthening export control regimes and the rights and authority of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA);
• appropriate international responses to violations of existing safeguard commitments;
• limiting the processing of weapon usable material (separation of plutonium and high enriched uranium in civilian programs);
• tightening controls over the export of nuclear material and technology;
• universalising of the IAEA additional protocol making it mandatory for all states and members of the Nuclear Suppliers Group to make adherence to the additional protocol a condition of supply to all their transfers;
• criminalising actions of individuals and companies that assist in nuclear proliferation;
• the development of an international guarantee of nuclear fuel supply to states forgoing sensitive nuclear technologies;
• revising the NPT to prevent countries from withdrawing from the NPT and passing a new resolution in the UN Security Council addressing the penalties for withdrawal from the NPT;
• encouraging all nuclear states to join the NPT;
• reserving the right to withhold supplies of uranium permanently, indefinitely or for a specified period from any country which ceases to observe the non-proliferation safeguards and security conditions which are applied to Australian uranium exports to that country, or which adopts nuclear practices or policies inimical to further advance in the cause of nuclear non-proliferation;
• supporting the maintenance and enhancement of international and Australian safeguards to ensure that uranium mined in Australia, and nuclear products derived from it, is used only for civil purposes by approved instrumentalities in approved countries which are signatories to the NPT and with whom Australia has safeguard arrangements; and
• seeking adequate international resourcing of the IAEA to ensure its effectiveness in undertaking its charter.

Labor will progress these commitments through diplomatic means including the re-establishment of the Canberra Commission to reinvigorate Australia's tradition of middle power, multilateral diplomacy. In doing so, Labor, as a non nuclear armed nation and a good international citizen, can wield considerable influence and credibility in promoting disarmament, the reduction of nuclear stockpiles, and the responsible use of nuclear technology.