Campaign Against Nuclear Energy

The Campaign Against Nuclear Energy ( CANE ) was founded on 14 February 1976 as a regional organization in Perth, Western Australia, by the Friends of the Earth Australia ( FOEA ). Other members of this organization Alliance were the Australian Conservation Foundation, Conservation Council of Western Australia and Campaign to Save Native Forests.

The CANE entered against the development of nuclear power plants, especially in Western Australia, a. She supported the NPT, was against uranium mining and export of Australia, the proliferation of nuclear weapons of mass destruction and against the stay of U.S. ships in Australia, who were armed with nuclear weapons. It also supported the initiative for local nuclear-free zones.

1976 initiated the CANE demonstrations at Perth and Rockingham against the transportation of U.S. nuclear weapons by Australia. The first demonstration of the parliament building in Perth began in 1977 with about 600, expanded on Hiroshima day to 3,000 and in November to 10,000 people. The Prime Minister Charles Court of Western Australia was on 15 June 1979 announced that plans for nuclear power plants in the Breton Bay 90 km north and exist in Wilbinga, 70 km north of Perth. Then CANE organized on July 4, 1979, a public meeting against the Perth Town Hall.

CANE was a member of the Coalition for a Nuclear Free Australia ( CNFA ), an Australian alliance of 79 organizations of trade unions, anti-nuclear organizations, environmental organizations and the Friends of the Earth Australia. The establishment of Women Against Nuclear Energy ( WANE ), which took place April 21, 1980, was initiated from the Campaign Against Nuclear Energy, and later led to the Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament.

When the Australian Labor Party had won the 1983 national election and gave up the construction of nuclear power plants, the idea prevailed that the Australian anti -nuclear movement and the ALP now needs no further political platform more. The regional movement Campaign Against Nuclear Energy began to dissolve and heard in the late 1980s as an organization to exist.