Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Senator, it is correct to say that you did provide me with a copy of an article from the ABC of 1 August relating to the storage of CSIRO related waste and a number of FOI materials. As I understand the nature of the FOI, the material that has been released relates to the analysis that was done of Commonwealth landholdings which indicated that there was no Commonwealth land suitable for hosting the facility. But a number of the parcels included in that analysis were Defence land, as the senator has noted. This response has come from the department and relates to that analysis.

I think it is important for the chamber to be reminded that Woomera itself, the Woomera protected area, is a unique part not just of Australia but in fact of the globe and presents some very important— (Time expired)