Rally against a nuclear base in Port Kembla | March 17, 2024 | Illawarra Mercury - video Dailymotion

Unions and community groups speaking out against a nuclear base in Port Kembla on Sunday, March 17, 2024. Video by Nadine Morton

Transcript

00:00 If Port Kemballa becomes a nuclear sub-base, we're a nuclear target.

00:06 And we don't want to be a nuclear target.

00:08 What we want is $368 billion of Australian taxpayer money, which is our money, spent

00:16 on making a healthy life, a civilian life.

00:21 Our public hospitals, our public schools, our public infrastructure.

00:26 We don't want money wasted on making us a nuclear target.

00:30 For me, from Afghanistan, and I saw the war, I didn't hear the war from others, but I witnessed

00:38 it.

00:39 And it's, I can't handle it to hearing in here, you're for the next, like, how many years,

00:47 30 years or something, planning a war.

00:49 Maryland sent up thousands of black missiles all over Australia and Tasmania, but war would

00:56 be 41, once.

00:57 I stand here on behalf of 60,000 members of the Teachers' Federation, teachers right across

01:03 2,200 schools in New South Wales.

01:06 And I can assure you, what they've done with it is teaching for war.

01:13 They're educating for peace.

01:15 And secondly, they've easily found hundreds of billions of dollars for nuclear subs, but

01:21 they're underfunding our public schools in New South Wales.

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