Motion (by Senator Margetts, and also on behalf of Senator Stott Despoja and Senator Forshaw) proposed:

That the Senate—

(a) notes, with concern:

(i) the decision by the Minister for the Environment and Heritage (Senator Hill) to give environmental approval to the proposed new research reactor at Lucas Heights in Sydney, and

(ii) that there is strong community opposition to the construction of a nuclear research reactor in suburban Sydney; and

(b) calls on the Government to delay the final decision on this controversial proposal until the tabling of reports on the new research reactor by the Economics References Committee and the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, and the government responses to those reports.