On 25 June 2002, Clive Brown MLA, the then Minister for State Development, made the following statement to Parliament -

"I wish to announce that the Western Australian Government has prohibited the mining of uranium for nuclear purposes from any mining leases granted from Saturday, 22 June 2002, when I first made the announcement to delegates at the Australian Labor Party state conference in Perth. The decision meets the policy of the Labor Government, which came to power on a platform that included banning the mining of uranium for nuclear purposes... The policy will be ratified in legislation through the early introduction to Parliament of a government Bill that will specifically amend the Mining Act 1978 to prohibit the mining of uranium for nuclear purposes."

The Government failed to introduce legislation as promised.  As its name suggests, Giz's Uranium Mining (Implementation of Government Commitments) Bill 2007 sought to make good on the Government's promise.

The Bill was defeated on 10 April 2008, with the Government and Opposition voting against it. 

The Bill

Giz's Second Reading Speech

The Debate