Sandra Kanck

Overview

Sandra Kanck (née Cederblad) born Broken Hill, New South Wales April 20, 1950. Australian social reformer and peace activist. Politician; member of South Australian Parliament, 1993-2009. Led first delegation to Vietnam, 1994. Protested French atomic tests, Mururoa, 1971; opposed Iraq War; opposed US bases in Australia.

Quotations

“[T]he body can take up some of that fallout and the younger a person is the more likely it will take it up because, what it does, the body can’t tell the difference between strontium and calcium, and so if it’s exposed to strontium-90 it will take it up in the bones and deposit it as calcium. And I was outraged.” (interview, Oct 26, 2007)