Here is a very dated snip from a university website. She's been an activist for pretty well sixty years.
Dr. Helen Caldicott has been an international advocate for peace and the environment for twenty-five years. The founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility and Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND), Dr. Caldicott has been called a "peace warrior" because of her opposition to nuclear weapons and her devotion to the welfare of the planet earth.
Our conservative opposition party coalition want to build nuclear power stations in Australia and restrict the expansion of renewable energy. This will be hugely expensive and take decades to build, while renewable power and battery storage technology are advancing at astonishing speeds, as the infrastructure to deal with and direct the power also proceeds. Some Australian states have laws banning nuclear production energy, (thanks for your work Helen). Nuclear power is just not going to happen in Australia as it simply not needed, even if the conservative party is elected. At best in its first term in office it may make plans, if re-elected once, it might do surveys. The next Labor government would probably just chuck the plans in the bin.
Dr Caldicott wasn't the only anti nuclear campaigner, with her being in good company. Nevertheless, she was the anti nuclear campaigner figurehead and we are indebted to her. She is 86 now, and still busy doing what she has always done, that is trying to make the world a better place.
A former Prime Minister brought a lump of coal into Parliament and handed it around to fellow politicians. "This is coal", he said. "It is nothing to be afraid of". I wonder if the leader of His Majesty's Opposition Party will bring some uranium into parliament to hand around, with the advice it is nothing to be afraid of.
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