Greens NSW Senator Lee Rhiannon will question officials from the Department of Science and Industry at the February Senate Budget Estimates hearing on their latest serious mismanagement of the location for the proposed nuclear waste dump at Hill End.

"The Department has caused more distress and concern among local residents by giving an inaccurate location for the proposed dump and then taking more than eight weeks to publicly disclose the actual location they are targeting," Senator Rhiannon said.

Sallys Flat, near the historic gold mining town of Hill End, is on the federal government's shortlist of sites to house a nuclear waste storage facility.

In the 1980s the call for nuclear disarmament resonated around the planet. In Australia Palm Sunday rallies attracted hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people and prominent people added their voice to the public discourse that recognised that ridding the world of nuclear weapons was a key priority. Three decades on, the issue of nuclear disarmament is not the priority it was, but the threat remains just as real.

Adjournemnt speech - 26 June 2012

National Radioactive Waste Bill 2010, Questions

Wednesday 8 February 2012

WHAT: Greens Senator for NSW Lee Rhiannon and Andre Lariviere of the large French organisation Réseau Sortir du Nucleaire, a French NGO representing over 900 anti nuclear organisations, are keynote speakers at the Hiroshima Day rally tomorrow Saturday August 6 (details below).
WHEN: 11am Friday 5 August 2011
WHERE: Pollies tree, back of NSW Parliament.

Senator Rhiannon and Mr Lariviere are keynote speakers at the rally being held on Saturday marking the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.