Alexander John Gosse Downer is an Australian former politician and diplomat who was leader of the Liberal Party from 1994 to 1995,Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2007,and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2014 to 2018.
Martin John Ferguson is an Australian former Labor Party politician who was the Member of the House of Representatives for Batman from 1996 to 2013. He served as Minister for Resources and Energy and Minister for Tourism in the Rudd and Gillard Governments from 2007 to 2013.
Nicholas Hugh Minchin is a former Australian politician and former Australian Consul-General in New York,USA. He previously served as a Liberal member of the Australian Senate representing South Australia from July 1993 to June 2011,and a former cabinet minister in the Howard Government.
Arkaroola is the common name for the Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary,a wildlife sanctuary situated on 610 square kilometres of freehold and pastoral lease land in South Australia. It is located 700 kilometres north of the Adelaide city centre in the Northern Flinders Ranges,adjacent to the Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park and the Mawson Plateau. The most common way to get there is by car,but air travel can be chartered from Parafield Airport,Adelaide Airport or Aldinga Airfield. It was used as a location set for the 2002 film The Tracker.
Janelle Anne Saffin is an Australian Labor Party politician. She has been the Member for Lismore in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly since 23 March 2019. She was the Member for Page in the Australian House of Representatives from 2007 to 2013,and a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1995 to 2003.
Thomas Richard Kenyon is a former Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Newland for the Labor Party from the 2006 election until his defeat in 2018. Kenyon left the Labor Party in 2021 to found the Family First Party.
Cory Bernardi is an Australian conservative political commentator and former politician. He was a Senator for South Australia from 2006 to 2020,and was the leader of the Australian Conservatives,a minor political party he founded in 2017 but disbanded in 2019. He is a former member of the Liberal Party of Australia,having represented the party in the Senate from 2006 to 2017. Bernardi is a committed conservative Catholic Christian and author of The Conservative Revolution.
Donald Edward Farrell is an Australian politician and former trade unionist. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been Minister for Trade and Tourism and Special Minister of State in the Albanese government since 2022. He has served as a Senator for South Australia since 2016,after a previous term from 2008 to 2014.
Mount Gee is located in the northern Flinders Ranges within the Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary,and is part of the Mount Painter inlier. It was named after a mining warden,Lionel Gee.
Rowan Eric Ramsey is the Liberal Party of Australia member for the House of Representatives seat of Grey since the 2007 election,succeeding previous Liberal member Barry Wakelin. Grey covers most of rural South Australia −over 92 percent of the state by area.
Nuclear weapons testing,uranium mining and export,and nuclear power have often been the subject of public debate in Australia,and the anti-nuclear movement in Australia has a long history. Its origins date back to the 1972–1973 debate over French nuclear testing in the Pacific and the 1976–1977 debate about uranium mining in Australia.
The prospect of nuclear power in Australia has been a topic of public debate since the 1950s. Australia has one nuclear plant in Lucas Heights,Sydney,but is not used to produce nuclear power,but instead is used to produce medical radioisotopes. It also produces material or carries out analyses for the mining industry,for forensic purposes and for research. Australia hosts 33% of the world's uranium deposits and is the world's third largest producer of uranium after Kazakhstan and Canada.
Peter Donald Shack is a former Australian politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1977 to 1983 and from 1984 to 1993. He was a member of the Liberal Party and represented the Division of Tangney in Western Australia.
The Beverley Mine is Australia's third uranium mine and Australia's first operating in-situ recovery mine. It is located in South Australia in the gazetted locality of Wooltana about 35 km from Lake Frome at the northern end of the Flinders Ranges. It officially opened in 2001. The original Beverley uranium deposit was discovered by one of Bill Siller's companies in 1969 and was named after his wife—Beverley Siller.
The three-mine policy,introduced in 1984 and abandoned in 1996,was a policy of the government of Australia to limit the number of uranium mines in the country to three.
Gregory John Crafter is a former South Australian Labor Party politician. He was the member for Norwood from 1979 to 1993,with a short break from September 1979 to February 1980.
Lobbying in South Australia is a growing activity,by which organizations or individuals attempt to influence the Government of South Australia in its policy,regulation and law-making. Since 1 December 2009,lobbyists commercially operating on behalf of third party interests are required to join a register and must also comply with a Code of Conduct. The register is available to the public via the website of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet,and lists the names of registered entities,their employed lobbyists and their clients. As of April 2015,sixty-five different entities are listed on the register,with notable examples including Bespoke Approach and Barker Wentworth.
The Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission is a Royal Commission into South Australia's future role in the nuclear fuel cycle. It commenced on 19 March 2015 and delivered its final report to the Government of South Australia on 6 May 2016. The Commissioner was former Governor of South Australia,Kevin Scarce,a retired Royal Australian Navy Rear-Admiral and chancellor of the University of Adelaide. The Commission concluded that nuclear power was unlikely to be economically feasible in Australia for the foreseeable future. However,it identified an economic opportunity in the establishment of a deep geological storage facility and the receipt of spent nuclear fuel from prospective international clients.
David Noonan is an Australian environmentalist and member of the anti-nuclear movement in Australia. Noonan is a former anti-nuclear campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation,and has been a prominent spokesperson during campaigns against the expansion of uranium mining in Australia and against the establishment of nuclear waste storage facilities. He has a science degree and a Masters in Environmental Studies.
The established nuclear industry in South Australia is focused on uranium mining,milling and the export of uranium oxide concentrate for use in the production of nuclear fuel for nuclear power plants. The state is home to the world's largest known single deposit of uranium,which is worked by BHP at the Olympic Dam mine. Contaminated legacy sites exist at Maralinga and Emu Field,where nuclear weapons tests were conducted in the 1950s and 1960s and at former uranium mines and milling sites. Nuclear waste is stored by the CSIRO at Woomera and future waste storage prospects were considered during the deliberations of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission in 2016. The Commission has recommended that South Australia considers opportunities in nuclear waste storage,the establishment of a nuclear fuel leasing scheme and the repeal of prohibitions which currently prevent future nuclear industrial development nationally.
