Australia’s Labor and Liberals agree on bribing Northern Territory to agree to nuclear waste dump
Canberra dangles $10m nuclear waste dump carrot, ABC Radio 774, By Anna Henderson and Louise Willis February 08, 2012 The Federal Government has made an agreement with the Opposition that will pave the way for Australia’s first national radioactive waste dump.
The Radioactive Waste Management Bill is listed for debate in the Senate today.
Northern Territory Country Liberals Senator Nigel Scullion says he has secured Labor support for a minimum $10 million fund that would be paid to the jurisdiction that accepts the facility.
Resources Minister Martin Ferguson says the Government is prepared to support the Opposition plan.
The Greens want the legislation delayed.
They say details surrounding the Government’s preferred site of Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory have not been finalised……
Greens Senator Scott Ludlum says it is wrong to proceed while Indigenous groups wage a court battle over ownership of the land.
“I think it is totally inappropriate that the Bill is before the Senate while the Government doesn’t yet know whose land they are dealing with,” he said.
“There is a very serious challenge by the traditional owners of the Barkly region, a challenge to the Federal Government and to the Northern Land Council.
“They are basically saying they had no right to give up the land in the first place. “I find it offensive.” http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-08/20120208-2410m-muckaty-nuclear-waste-dump-carrot/3817866/?site=melbourne
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Australian Greens Senators’ Scott Ludlum [West] and Lee Rhiannon [NSW] have just been in the Senate attempting to slow this bill down and ask some relevant questions as to how this compomised deal came about.
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