Rowan Ramsey (Grey, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. For eight years, the Kimba community in my electorate pursued an invitation to host the national radioactive waste management facility. As with Israel and other issues at the Labor Party's upcoming national conference, is Labor's decision to scrap this facility yet another example of the bitter internal backroom Labor factional deal being prioritised over the national interest?

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member will resume his seat for a moment. Order! I'll hear from the Leader of the House.

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In practice, there's a blanket prohibition on questions about party conferences.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

There is. I'll just ask the member for Grey, to assist the House, to make sure the question is relevant, to remove that part of—

Honourable members interjecting—

I'm trying to help the member for Grey. Could he just rephrase the question to be about policy, not the conference.

Rowan Ramsey (Grey, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. For eight years, the Kimba community in my electorate pursued an invitation to host the national radioactive waste management facility. The government's decision today has left no plan for ANSTO to handle its waste in the future. What does the government plan to do with that waste when room runs out at Lucas Heights?

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Grey for his question. He was a member of the government for three terms. During that period, it is correct to say that the government of the day proposed Kimba as the site, and the Labor Party, under my leadership, supported the site.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Grey has asked the question. He will not interject anymore.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The decision was knocked over in the Federal Court of Australia. It was knocked over because of the incompetence of the former minister in the way that he dealt with the administration of that act. It is completely the responsibility of the former government that this decision has been knocked over in the Federal Court.

Opposition members interjecting—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Is the member for Grey seeking the call? The Prime Minister has concluded his answer, resume your seat.

Order! The member for Grey will leave the chamber under 94(a).

The member for Grey then left the chamber.