Published at a time when the Howard-led Liberal Government is taking Australia down the nuclear path with the pedal to the metal in the lead-up to the 2007 federal election, The Nuclear Posters brings together the work of committed artists and campaigners to spark debate about the role of the nuclear cycle in Australia. The posters chosen for this publication build on the history of the political poster movement and act as an oppositional force to this vicious nuclear cycle.
Poster Artists: Aris Prabawa | Arlene TextaQueen | Benny Zable | Bretton Bartleet | Deborah Kelly | Graeme Dunstan | Jessie Boylan | Josh MacPhee | Kevin Buzzacott | Lou Smith | Mathew Kneebone | MITCH | Peter Kneebone | Rodney Dekker | Rose Turtle Ertler | Russell Kerr | Simon Bent | Tim Growcott | Tom Civil | Van Thanh Rudd
In the introduction to the publication, committed nuclear campaigner Dave Sweeney had this to say: “Every part of the nuclear trade is now being actively promoted or canvassed in Australia. There is a strong federal government and industry push to expand uranium mining and processing, unprecedented uranium exploration and speculation, plans for domestic nuclear power, increased federal powers to impose radioactive waste dumps on the Northern Territory and talk of a ‘cradle to grave’ nuclear industry in Australia. If these nuclear dreams and secret schemes become reality our country would become the world’s uranium quarry and radioactive waste dump. Fortunately the nuclear industry has always been strongly contested with deep concerns over the environmental and cultural impacts of uranium mining, the real costs of nuclear power, the dangers of radioactive waste and the ever-present threat of nuclear weapons.”