Review stand on uranium sale to India: Australian opposition

Melbourne (PTI): Australian Opposition parties on Thursday pressed the Federal Government to review its stand on selling uranium to India, saying the current "hypocritical" policy will hurt the mining companies with New Delhi back into the nuclear club. The Opposition parties also reminded the Government that it did not object to NSG waiver for India. "Now that the US-India agreement has been made law, the Rudd government is in an untenable position by refusing to allow the sale of Australian uranium to India under the same terms, conditions and International Atomic Energy Agency inspection program as Australian uranium sales to China," Opposition resources spokesman Ian Macfarlane said. "This is the same agreement that Australia approved last month, as a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, yet the government persists with... [read full story]