Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Birmingham for his question and the issue which he has raised, which of course affects part of his own state of South Australia, and in particular the selection of Kimba as a site for the waste depository centre. I suppose the simple answer to your question is that this matter is obviously a matter in the court or before the courts, and we don't generally comment on these matters when judicial matters are proceeding. That is the first point to make. The principle of judicial review is an important process which the government fully supports, and my recollection is that, when this issue was debated in the previous parliament, the provisions for judicial review were one of the things that the then minister inserted into the processes—