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

In actual fact, much of the land up there is either owned by the state of South Australia—it's Crown land—or owned by the federal government, which can self-nominate a site. The amendment is not prescriptive in identifying a particular site in the Woomera Prohibited Area. I point out that the Woomera Prohibited Area is 12.7 million hectares of desert. It's not a small site. There is scope to find a reasonable location; you just have to be willing to try. Again, a nomination can come from either the state government or the federal government, which owns some of the land there. That could then initiate a process, which, in a number of sites, has been examined in detail. Of course, there would have to be consultation with the local community, including the Indigenous folk.