Amidst fierce opposition mounted by her party's Left bloc, Prime Minister Julia Gillard mustered enough vote from her Australian Labor Party colleagues on Sunday to push through with her proposal of selling uranium to India.

The ALP, according to the Associated Press, voted 206 to 185 in approving the motion that would allow Australia to reinstate a uranium partnership with New Delhi that was once sponsored by the Liberal government until former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd scrapped the deal in 2007.

No parliamentary approval is required for the Labor-led government to implement the measure, the AP report added.

Those who are opposed to the new ALP policy warned that Australia could become a party to an emerging world power that is fully capable of developing nuclear weapon using uranium officially shipped by Canberra.

By the last accounting, Australia enjoys rich reserve of uranium that Ms Gillard maintained that the resources should be taken advantage of in establishing good trade relationship with other nations, especially to India.

The South Asian country, along with China, has been tagged by economic experts as one of the emerging economic powers in the immediate years ahead, a fact that the Prime Minister wishes to exploit in favour of Australia.

"We need to make sure that across our regions we have the strongest possible relationships we can, including with the world's largest democracy, India ... and today we should determine to change our platform and enable us, under safeguards, to sell uranium to India," Ms Gillard was reported by AP as saying on Sunday.

At the same time she allayed fears that as a non-member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, India could surreptitiously use the uranium it obtains from Australia for the development of nuclear weapons.

Ms Gillard insisted that existing Australian safeguards on uranium sale would ensure that India will exclusively use purchased uranium for industrial and peaceful means only.

The ALP approved Ms Gillard's plan even as Labor Left leader Senator Doug Cameron put up a gallant stand against the proposal, which attracted a rousing applause from Labor members and enough votes that could have defeated the India uranium sale deal.

"This is a bad move for the Labor Party, it's a bad move for international peace," Cameron was quoted by AP as saying during the debate.

Then turning his attention to Ms Gillard and the rest of the Labor congregation, the maverick ALP member asserted: "Prime Minster, you are wrong! Ministers, you are wrong!"