Rex Patrick (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

That's at least some good news. I just want clarify, on the record, that I don't describe Leonora, the township, in that way. In order to get to the site that is proposed, you have to get into a four-wheel drive and head out to the never-never. It's well away from town. If you get there and you see a goanna, it is transiting. I seek leave to move amendments (1) and (2) on sheet 1310 together, which are amendments to the government amendments on sheet SV110.

Leave granted.

I move:

(1) Amendment (2), Schedule 1, item 1, at the end of the table in subitem 1(1), add:

(2) Amendment (2), Schedule 1, item 1, at the end of the item, add:

(5) The land specified in this subitem is the land within the area determined by the Minister under subitem (6).

Minister to determine area within the Woomera Prohibited Area

(6) The Minister must, by legislative instrument, determine an area within the Woomera Prohibited Area (within the meaning of the Defence Act 1903) for the purposes of table item 4 of the table in subitem (1).

(7) The determination must specify each person who, on the day the determination is made, held an interest in land within the area determined in the determination that is an interest of a kind referred to in section 7 of the Act.

(8) For the purposes of subitem (6), section 72TA of the Defence Act 1903 applies as if the purposes referred to in paragraph 72TA(2) (a) of that Act include establishing and operating a facility.

Table has no effect until determination made

(9) Despite subitem (1), the table in that subitem does not have effect until the day after the Minister makes a determination under subitem (6).

Selected site within Woomera Prohibited Area

(10) If an area within the Woomera Prohibited Area determined under subitem (6) is selected as the site for a facility, the Minister administering Part VIB of the Defence Act 1903 (which deals with the Woomera Prohibited Area):

(a) must ensure that the Woomera Prohibited Area Rules made under section 72TP of that Act enable access to the selected site for the purposes of establishing and operating a facility; and

(b) must not exercise, or fail to exercise, the Minister's powers under that Part or those Rules in a way that prevents or hinders the establishment or operation of a facility at the selected site.