Senate debates

Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Questions without Notice

Defence Facilities: Chemical Contamination

2:20 pm

Photo of Janet RiceJanet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Yet the government, through the study you were talking about, Minister, is admitting that the evidence linking PFAS to negative health effects is not conclusive. Isn't that justification for applying the precautionary principle and offering to buy out residents who want to leave? What will the government say to people if it refuses to buy them out and the four-year study does, in fact, conclude that there are negative health effects and that they have been suffering them for years?

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