Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Assistant Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

In response to your questions earlier regarding those particular sites, obviously it is only the Commonwealth sites that come under the ARPANS Act. Clearly, the controlled person, as defined in the act as the Commonwealth entity or the Commonwealth contractor, must be in place for it to come under the Commonwealth.

My understanding is that the Alligator Rivers site and the Little Forest Legacy Site come under the Commonwealth's purview. Maralinga, that you also referred to, does indeed come under the Commonwealth power—or it did, because my advice is that that site has been remediated. Those that come under state and territory responsibility do not fall under the ARPANS Act. They are the ones that you referred to—Rum Jungle, Radium Hill and Port Pirie.