{"id":707,"date":"2011-11-20T14:44:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T03:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/?p=707"},"modified":"2011-11-20T14:44:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T03:44:20","slug":"smith-backs-julia-gillard-re-uranium-for-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/smith-backs-julia-gillard-re-uranium-for-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith backs Julia Gillard re Uranium for India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is likely significant that &#8220;Government frontbencher Stephen Smith has defended Prime Minister Julia Gillard for not consulting with cabinet before announcing her plans to overturn a ban on uranium sales to India.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.theage.com.au\/breaking-news-national\/smith-backs-pm-on-uranium-decision-20111120-1noz4.html\">read full article<\/a>) as Stephen Smith is being actively touted as being Gillard&#8217;s replacement if there is to be a change in the Labor party&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Those of us that still are invested in the sector should take some comfort from Smith&#8217;s comments<\/strong>. However several of the state Labor party leaders have divergent views and with a &#8220;green&#8221; senate it looks unlikely that we will see new uranium mines inside Australia&#8217;s borders in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Hence our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/uranium-stocks-australian-overseas-explorers.html\">overseas ASX listed uranium plays<\/a> probably still offer the best chances.<\/p>\n<p>I hold <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australian-shares.com\/forums\/search?Search=aee\">AEE<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australian-shares.com\/forums\/search?Search=extract\">EXT<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australian-shares.com\/forums\/search?Search=GGG\">GGG<\/a>. Click on them to see why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is likely significant that &#8220;Government frontbencher Stephen Smith has defended Prime Minister Julia Gillard for not consulting with cabinet before announcing her plans to overturn a ban on uranium sales to India.&#8221; (read full article) as Stephen Smith is being actively touted as being Gillard&#8217;s replacement if there is to be a change in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/smith-backs-julia-gillard-re-uranium-for-india\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Smith backs Julia Gillard re Uranium for India&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}