CANBERRA - Australia's new conservative government said yesterday it was ending 13 years of curbs on uranium exports, angering environmentalists and a key political party which said it would seek to block sales in parliament.
The Liberal National coalition, which won power in March 2nd, said Australia had to take advantage of its 30 per cent share of the world's uranium reserves and was looking to Asia for sales of the controversial nuclear fuel. The Resources Minister, Mr Warwick Parer, said Australia was keen to sell to Indonesia for its planned nuclear power plants and would also look to Asian, countries like Japan or South Korea who already have or plan to build nuclear power stations.