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

My question is to Senator Carr as the Minister representing the Minister for Resources and Energy. It is a question that relates to radioactive waste management in Australia, which rightly belonged in Senator Carr’s portfolio before it was for some reason transferred to resources and energy. When will the government implement its very clear election promise, its policy platform and a great many public undertakings, including from you, to repeal the Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act and replace it with a process that is—in your language, the language of the ALP—scientific, transparent, accountable and fair and which allows access to appeal mechanisms? What exactly is the reason for the delay of nearly two years having elapsed since you came to government? Will you acknowledge that this is actually a very clear breach of an election commitment?