August 5 – 2 Sept – Western Australia – WALKATJURRA WALKABOUT
September 8 – Adelaide – Symposium on South Australia’s nuclear history
September 11-Perth – PROJECTIONS at PARLIAMENT
September – Nobel Peace Ride 
The Australian govt’s $31m nuclear bribe
Feds’ $31m nuclear sweetener, Whyalla News Louis Mayfield , 23 July 18 The federal government have injected more money into their Community Development Package, which will be available to the community selected as the future site for the nuclear waste management facility.
The value of the package has been tripled to $31 million, and is broken up into three separate programs:
- An $8 million Community Skills and Development Program, delivering grants over the four year licencing and construction period to maximise the community benefits from the construction and operation of the Facility.
- An increased $20 million National Radioactive Waste Management Facility (NRWMF) Community Fund, to deliver long term infrastructure and development benefits to the community.
- Up to $3 million over three years from the Government’s Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS) to strengthen Indigenous skills training and cultural heritage protection in the successful community.
Currently Kimba and Hawker remain in the running to be chosen as the location of the National Radioactive Waste Management Facility – but their communities remain deeply divided on the nuclear issue.
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Resources Minister Matt Canavan said the Community Development
Package would ensure the selected community has the skills in place to take advantage of the opportunities that will come with the facility.The waste management facility itself is expected to create at least 45 jobs…….
Member for Grey Rowan Ramsey said he had spent considerable time communicating with Minister Canavan regarding the structure and relevance of the financial package to Kimba and/or Hawker.……..Centre Alliance Senator Rex Patrick described the government’s announcement as ‘completely inappropriate and misguided’.
“As evidenced in recent visits to Kimba and Hawker by the Senate Economics Reference Committee, the communities are deeply divided over the issue,” he said.
“Throwing taxpayer money at them will just rub salt into already weeping wounds.”
Senator Patrick described the selection process for the nuclear waste facility as a ‘sham’.
“The Minister has stated that the site selection will only occur if there is ‘broad community support’, but refuses to state what ‘broad community support’ actually means,” he said.
“That’s like running a race and telling the participant that they don’t need to know where the finish line is and that officials will just tell everyone who has won the race.”https://www.whyallanewsonline.com.au/story/5543866/feds-31m-nuclear-sweetener/
Member for Grey Rowan Ramsey said he had spent considerable time communicating with Minister Canavan regarding the structure and relevance of the financial package to Kimba and/or Hawker.
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I continue to be amazed at the achievements of Aboriginal people. For decades they have fought off the nuclear industry’s attempts to turn South Australia into a nuclear hub, always starting with its plan for importing toxic radioactive trash into this beautiful agricultural and tourism State.
This past week the Barngarla Aboriginal people won the injunction to halt nuclear waste dump vote.
No – it’s far from a final victory, but it’s a start. I guess that the colonial masters in the past, and the nuclear lobby now, hoped that the Aboriginal people would just conveniently die out. But they didn’t. And they are a force to be reckoned with. And dedicated non indigenous Australians are working with them against this foul nuclear industry.
DON’T FORGET – it’s probably worthwhile to send submissions in to the Department of Industry Innovation and Science. They didn’t like the majority of submissions to the Senate being so firm and articulate, and against the dump. You can resend a Submission that went to the Senate, or write a new one, or both.
The Senate Committee has now released its Report . It is a wishy washy support for the process– quotes extensively from the submissions, but has little idea of its own. Greens Dissenting Submission packs a punch, as does Senator Rex Patrick’s Additional Comments.
Read summaries of submissions to the Senate, re the Selection process for a national radioactive waste management facility in South Australia. Each summary has a link to the full submission. Obviously the Department of Industry Innovation and Science (DIIS) was not happy with the majority of submissions opposing the process, so now are trying to get a better (for them) result
SUBMISSIONS CALLED FOR – about “Broad Community Support” for a nuclear waste dump in Kimba or Hawker, South Australia
The Department of Industry, Innovation and Science wants submissions between 1 August and 24 September 2018. People can resend the submissions already sent to the Senate Inquiry. Submissions to the department will only be made public where permission is provided.
http://radioactivewaste.gov.au/news/making-submission
Making a submission
Submissions will be one of the factors the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia may take into account when determining broad community support for the Facility.
Submissions can be made by:
Email: radioactivewaste@industry.gov.au
Post: The Department of Industry, Innovation and Science
National Radioactive Waste Section
GPO Box 2013, Canberra ACT 2601
NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP – Senate Committee of Inquiry
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THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT IS USING THE DROUGHT TO PROMOTE THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY
Yes, I know this sounds bizarre – BUT. Under the thumb of the nuclear industry and the military, the Australian government is working to promote the nuclear dream.
They’re taking advantage of the effects of the drought on agriculture – to push the idea of a “lucrative” nuclear waste dump, to two agricultural communities in South Australia .
So – the nuclear lobby is actually benefiting in Australia – from the effects of climate change.
It seems that Australia’s politicians are too stupid or self-interested to bother about climate change or about the nuclear threat.
The Senate Inquiry on Selection process for a national radioactive waste management facility in South Australia. has now 112 submissions published
Read the brief summaries of submissions – 55 anti-nuclear, 41 pro nuclear (13 confidential) , with links to each full submission published on this Antinuclear website.
Earth Climate System: Tipping Points to Hothouse?
Hothouse Earth: Has climate change reached the tipping point? | DW English
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EVENTS
More info on these at Action Australia
August 22 – Adelaide – “Nuclear Weapons and the Peace Movement in Australia – Where to Now?
See our page: Submissions on Radioactive Waste Code 2018/ Submissions published by ARPANSA are overwhelmingly critical, and in opposition to the Federal nuclear dump plan for rural South Australia. [not to be confused with the current SENATE INQUIRY Selection process for a national radioactive waste management facility in South Australia.]
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PETITIONS
Online Open letter requesting ACTION to enforce South Australia’s law against nuclear waste dumping. http://petition.dyndns.org/
Say no to the federal plan to dump and store nuclear waste in SA.
Don’t Let Frydenberg approve Yeelirrie uranium mine or extinction!
No Nuclear Bundabunda at Brewarrina – bad poison [SIGN THE PETITION]
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