Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Industry) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I note that the minister said, ‘The government will undertake to seek advice.’ I ask, again: has the government already sought to have that advice provided, as the minister for industry indicated on 26 July? Given the government’s new-found interest in listening to what local communities have to say, can he indicate whether the government has any plans to ask the Australian Electoral Commission to conduct plebiscites on whether Australians want a nuclear reactor in their backyard? Don’t residents of the Queensland coast, the Hunter, Jervis Bay, the Victorian coast, south-east South Australia and elsewhere have a right to have a say about the government’s plan to build nuclear power stations in their backyards?