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Uranium, GM moves welcomed
19-November-08
Written by Mark Beyer

WHO remembers the final week of the 2008 state election campaign, when then premier Alan Carpenter ran an increasingly desperate and almost bizarre scare campaign?

Every waking moment he told voters about the supposed dangers posed by uranium mining, nuclear waste dumps and genetically modified agricultural crops.

The scare campaign will go down as an appalling miscalculation by people who clearly failed to understand the mood of the electorate.

The Barnett government has added to the pain of Labor's election defeat by moving quickly on two of these issues.

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