Senate debates

Thursday, 10 August 2023

Questions without Notice

Nuclear Waste Management

2:40 pm

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

I thank Senator Thorpe for her question. I think I did go to answering that question when Senator Birmingham asked me it earlier in the day. It's not an easy thing to now resolve, given the decision under the judicial review. But, like it or not, there's lots of low-level nuclear waste stored in all sorts of places in Australia and the government, in accordance with the National Radioactive Waste Management Act 2012, which was introduced by the Labor Party, are now going to revisit the issue under Minister King's very careful guidance to work out where we might be able to place this radioactive waste. (Time expired)

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