Antinuclear

Just 24 hours after Mr Weatherill pushed for a dateless referendum on SA approving a nuclear storage industry, he told Parliament the Government would not seek to change existing state legislation, which bans a dump being set up, or advocate any shift in federal laws…….

The Opposition sought to expose Labor divisions, including a union movement in public revolt, by calling on a string of ministers to publicly back Mr Weatherill’s nuclear plan.

Left faction ministers Susan Close and Leon Bignell, as well as the Right’s Stephen Mullighan, yesterday deferred Liberal questions on their personal views about nuclear to Mr Weatherill.

Independent Regional Development Minister Geoff Brock rose to his feet to give an answer to a Liberal question about plans for a nuclear dump, before Mr Weatherill stepped in to take it.

“There is a cabinet decision and all cabinet ministers support it,” Mr Weatherill said.

Opposition treasury spokesman Rob Lucas said Mr Weatherill had “taken the extraordinary step of gagging his ministers” and was desperate to “cover up the deep divisions in the Labor Party”.

Earlier, Speaker Michael Atkinson removed seven of the 21 Liberals in the Lower House, including Mr Marshall and other senior frontbenchers over rowdy interjections.

Mr Weatherill said the Liberals were divided over Mr Marshall’s rejection of the dump and being opportunistic by refusing to entertain further public debate on a potentially lucrative industry….  http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/liberal-mps-ejected-from-sa-parliament-during-debate-over-nuclear-waste-dump/news-story/552eb707f54fef48488b6cc0d4189d14