Senate debates

Friday, 24 March 2023

Questions without Notice

Nuclear Waste Management: Submarines

2:20 pm

Photo of Barbara PocockBarbara Pocock (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

We're yet to hear an answer on how large quantities of weapons-grade material are going to be stored. The South Australian Premier has called for the Barngarla people to have a right to veto the low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste dump proposed on their country near Kimba in South Australia, a proposal that the current Labor government has pursued, having had it suggested by the previous government. Any site for AUKUS nuclear waste would be on the lands of traditional owners. Will you commit now to giving traditional owners the right to veto? (Time expired)

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