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  • ‘We won’t become a nuclear dumping ground’ says Albanese – Keating not so sure

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    An update to the AUKUS security pact was signed off during the annual AUSMIN talks between Australian and US defence and foreign ministers. While the initial deal inked in March 2023 only allowed for the exchange of information about nuclear submarines, the update has paved the way for nuclear material to be brought to Australia.…

  • Kimba dumped: Albanese Government drops plans for SA nuclear waste site

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    Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King said this morning the government will not appeal the Federal Court ruling last month in favour of the Barngarla Determination Aboriginal Corporation’s battle to stop the controversial low-level waste repository on the Eyre Peninsula. The region’s federal Liberal MP Rohan Ramsay, who lives near Kimba, described the announcement as “a…

  • Targeting subs’ long-term nuclear waste impact

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    Within ten years, Australia could be in possession of three American-made Virginia-class nuclear submarines under the AUKUS agreement with the United States and United Kingdom. The following decade, we plan to build five next-generation nuclear submarines. To date, criticism of the deal has largely focused on whether our unstable geopolitical environment and China’s military investment…

  • ‘David and Goliath’: Kimba nuke waste fight heads to Federal Court

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    Barngarla Traditional Owners, environmental activists and trade union supporters held placards and Aboriginal flags outside the court ahead of this morning’s hearing. They were supporting the Barngarla Determination Aboriginal Corporation, which has applied for judicial review in an attempt to thwart construction of the federal government’s planned radioactive waste storage facility at Napandee near Kimba.…

  • Kimba nuclear waste site go-ahead but opponents still fighting

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    Resources minister Keith Pitt said that the Commonwealth had acquired a 211-hectare agricultural site in Napandee, 24 kilometres west of Kimba, for a National Radioactive Waste Management Facility. The site will consolidate low and medium level radioactive medical waste that is currently stored in more than 100 locations across the country. There is no start…

  • Kimba waste dump push the latest chapter of SA nuclear legacy

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    On Saturday the Adelaide Festival hosted a public showing of Australian Atomic Confessions, a documentary I co-directed about the tragic and long-lasting effects of the atomic weapons testing carried out by Britain in South Australia in the 1950s. Amid works from 20 artists reflecting on nuclear trauma as experienced by Indigenous peoples, the discussion that…

  • They have let it come: now build it

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    No one is obliged to agree with Kimba’s decision to host our radioactive waste facility. But it was theirs to make. In response to the opinion from Dr Margaret Beavis (InDaily February 23), let me provide an alternative view. Much, not all, of Australia’s radioactive waste is safely in storage at ANSTO. This situation will…

  • Long-term impact of quick nuclear dump fix

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    Today, the government is planning a Senate vote to lock in moving highly radioactive nuclear waste to Kimba. This bill will deny any judicial oversight or review, despite major flaws in the proposal. However there is no rush to find a home for Australia’s nuclear waste. The federal nuclear regulator, ARPANSA, has been crystal clear;…

  • Kimba nuclear dump laws hit parliament

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    Resources minister Keith Pitt said today legislative amendments had been introduced to parliament to “support the delivery” of the facility, at Napandee near Kimba. Pitt said the project would give certainty to Australia’s nuclear medicine industry and consolidate waste currently scattered across the country. “If we want the benefits of nuclear applications, which are used…

  • Kimba nuke decision dumps on Indigenous rights

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    The federal government recently announced that it plans to establish a national nuclear waste ‘facility’ near Kimba on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula. It will comprise a permanent dump for low-level nuclear waste, and an ‘interim’ store for long-lived intermediate-level waste. Shamefully, the federal government has decided to move ahead despite the unanimous opposition of the…