Two toxic chemicals, fenthion and dimethoate, nerve inhibiting pesticides used in Australian food production, are under review and are to be phased out.

Now, 15 years on, as the phasing out begins, the government and industry are urgently pushing for another dubious post-harvest decontamination treatment to be used in their place: food irradiation.

Read the full story at http://foodirradiationwatch.org/2012/11/02/would-you-like-radiation-with-that-irradiated-tomatoes-a-toxic-treatment-of-a-beloved-fruit/

Rockhampton Regional Council mayor Margaret Strelow is the first in what will probably be a long line of regional council mayors who don’t want nuclear plants in their region.

Strelow told the Morning Bulletin, “It’s not even a discussion I want to have,”

“I’m a Mum and a grandma.”

This week media report that the LNP government are reviving plants for a uranium enrichment plant in Rockhampton in the wake of the lifting of the ban on mining.