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

I do not propose to dwell here; I will just ask if you could take on notice back to the minister—as he is going to be considering these proposals in detail—that, if he is not considering minimum 10,000-year rehabilitation and site isolation plans, I would be very interested to know why not. If you are able to at least take that back to the minister I would appreciate it. My last question on this amendment is about the degree of confidence to which the minister can assure the Senate that future Australian governments will not in fact be repeating taxpayer funded clean-ups of uranium mines that are either under consideration or being actively mined today, if the government does intend to oppose this amendment.