Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the minister. I am not sure that I got any idea of a commitment from the Commonwealth to a school relocation, but the minister can add to that, given my response, if he so wishes. I want to jump quickly back to jet aircraft, because I did intend to ask the minister, so as to get it on the record, whether or not the government has ever made a formal approach to the United States administration for access to the F22 Raptor and, if so, whether the minister has had any response on that issue. I also ask the minister a question about the situation with tritium. Can the minister explain the current state of affairs in respect of the poor handling of radioactive tritium at the Bulimba army base in Brisbane? Can he explain why Defence was not properly licensed to handle such material at the time of the contamination?

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