Senate debates

Thursday, 25 February 2010

Radioactive Waste

Order

9:36 am

Photo of Scott LudlamScott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | | Hansard source

I move:

That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for Resources and Energy, no later than 4 pm on 11 March 2010:
(a)
all reports submitted to the Federal Government by Parsons Brinkerhoff assessing and characterising proposed sites for a Commonwealth radioactive waste dump in the Northern Territory, including the final report submitted to the department on 18 March 2009, the CH2M HILL’s peer review and the Parsons Brinkerhoff’s response to that peer review;
(b)
the anthropological report prepared by consultants, Mr Kim Barber, Mr Robert Graham and Dr Brendan Corrigan, for the Northern Land Council (NLC) and provided to the then Minister for Education, Science and Training (Ms Bishop) in 2007; and
(c)
the June 2007 site nomination deed signed between the Commonwealth, the NLC and the Muckaty Land Trust, agreeing to a process for the site nomination and a schedule of payments totalling $11 million in a charitable trust plus $1 million in education scholarships.

Photo of Stephen ParryStephen Parry (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | | Hansard source

Pursuant to standing order 84(3), I ask that paragraphs (a) and (b) of this motion be taken together and that paragraph (c) be put separately.

Photo of John HoggJohn Hogg (President) Share this | | Hansard source

That will be done; the question will be divided. The question is that paragraphs (a) and (b) be agreed to.

Question agreed to.

The question now is that paragraph (c) be agreed to.

Question negatived.