Senate debates

Thursday, 10 August 2023

Questions without Notice

Nuclear Waste Management

2:03 pm

Photo of Simon BirminghamSimon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

The Albanese government has taken the weak and irresponsible path of junking years of work to resolve a decades' long impasse on where to store Australia's low-level radioactive waste. If the government didn't want to appeal the court decision regarding the Napandee site near Kimba, why didn't it legislate a remedy to address the court decision and allow the Napandee site to proceed as planned and on time?

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