Three-mine policy

The later exception allowed for development of the Olympic Dam mine, located in South Australia, as it also contained gold and copper.

The three-mine policy was officially introduced in 1984, after the federal elections that year had confirmed Bob Hawke of the Labor Party as Prime Minister of Australia.

[1] The policy was abandoned in 1996, after the 1996 federal election replaced the Labor Party with John Howard's Coalition in power.

[5] In April 2007, the Labor party, under the new leadership of Kevin Rudd voted at their national conference to abandon the policy.

I have to say, it was one of the more difficult tasks that I've been given over the years, but I personally campaigned strongly for that out-dated and illogical policy to be discarded and it has been.

It was recorded in the meeting's minutes thus:"The narrow vote in the recent scrapping of the no new mines policy made apparent the amount of ignorance there is present regarding uranium.

The minutes reflect:"SAMPEG should consider that the public doesn't understand the industry and members could directly contribute to the continued enhancement of resources information in this state.