Shadow Ministers in Grey

Federal Member for Grey Rowan Ramsey has spent two days on Eyre Peninsula this week with Shadow Ministers meeting a range of industry leaders and bringing regional issues to the fore. Whilst in Grey, Shadow Immigration Minister Dan Tehan and Shadow Health Minister Anne Ruston met with pharmacists, representatives from the Southern Bluefin Tuna and…

National Radioactive Waste Management Facility

Mr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (10:54): Around an hour ago, the Minister for Resources announced that the government was abandoning the plans to site the National Radioactive Waste Management Facility at Napandee in the Kimba district. I’ve got to say that this shows that the government is cowardly, if not gutless, and that it is incapable of…

Adjournment Speech Nuclear Waste Management

Mr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (16:39): I’m sad to report that I’m in no better mood about the government’s decision to cancel the Napandee project in Kimba, to be the host of the National Radioactive Waste Management Facility, than I was in question time. This is an appalling decision that has left the Australian medical nuclear isotope…

Nuclear Waste

Mr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (13:56): I can only describe the decision of the government today to withdraw support for the Kimba facility, the national radioactive waste management facility, as weak, cowardly and, indeed, gutless—absolutely lacking moral fibre. This government has put at risk the future of ANSTO and Australia’s nuclear medical production. Over 700,000 people a…

Western Australia: Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2021

Mr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (19:49): It would seem almost certain that the Western Australian government is to withdraw its Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act sometime this week. This is an outlandish, outrageous piece of legislation that I congratulate Western Australian farmers in particular for standing up to. I believe 650 attended a meeting at Katanning recently, and…

PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS Child Care

Mr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (10:55): I am indebted to the Stock Journal in South Australia for an article that they printed last week on the lack of child care in the regions. In fact, it came on the back of a report by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, which found that in the major cities there was…

Constituency Statement Wool Industry

Mr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (09:54): It has often been said that Australia once rode on the sheep’s back. It is no longer the case. There was a time when Australia had 170 million merino sheep. We now have 70 million. I make the point on merino sheep because they are wool producing sheep, of some of…