Senate debates

Monday, 5 September 2022

Questions without Notice

Space Industry

2:53 pm

Photo of Don FarrellDon Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

You ought to know, Senator, exactly what's going on! For instance Port Lincoln, in South Australia, is going to be the basis for further space exploration, further launches of rockets into space. I was recently in the United States and I met with a company that's looking to build a new space station at Port Lincoln. The idea of this space station—you'll like this—is that it's a centrifuge, and it spins around and around and around and fires a rocket up into space. Instead of costing—

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