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AUKUS nuclear waste targets SA

November 10, 2025

David Noonan via Beyond Nuclear <beyond-nuclear@googlegroups.com> wrote:

see ‘AUKUS nuclear waste targets SA’ a new 2-page Briefer, please distribute and consider getting involved.

with Calls on all SA politicians (Federal & State) and candidates for the SA State Election on 21st March to declare their positions on storage of AUKUS nuclear waste in SA, and a Call for full disclosure on the Federal Gov’s ongoing nuclear waste storage siting review ‘process’.

please consider taking up this initiative in your own way and raising awareness toward the SA Election, so we can have an informed debate on the Calls:

Q: Will you accept or reject Federal imposed storage of AUKUS nuclear waste in SA?

Q: Will you respect and support Indigenous Peoples Human Rights to Say No to Federal siting of AUKUS nuclear waste storage on their country in SA?

Q: Will you rule out untenable ‘decommissioning’ of nuclear subs and nuclear reactors at Osborne Port Adelaide, or else-where in SA?

“The people and environment of South Australia must be protected from Federal imposed storage of AUKUS High-Level nuclear waste”

Brief by David Noonan Independent Environment Campaigner 

— https://nuclear.foe.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Noonan-AUKUS-nuclear-wastes-target-SA-Briefer-9-Nov-2025.pdf

Adelaide FoE Notes, Nuclear

No Consent for Missiles – Rally Friday 10 October, at noon

October 7, 2025

You are invited to stand in solidarity with Aunty Sue at the “No Consent for Missiles” rally, this Friday 10 October at 12noon,
beginning at the Australian Space Agency, Lot 14 (corner of North Terrace and Frome Road, Adelaide, Kaurna Land).
The rally will then march to Parliament House.
 
STATEMENT OF NO CONSENT
Aunty Sue has addressed a Statement of No Consent to Southern Launch and every company that works with them—including the Australian Defence Force, Australian Space Agency, Thales, Varda, HyImpulse, Reaction Dynamics, German Aerospace Centre, AtSpace, and Perigee.
She has made it clear: there is NO CONSENT for the ongoing militarisation of Googatha Country.
In July, this statement was delivered in person to the head offices of these companies around the world.
Each company is now unambiguously aware: they are not welcome on the so-called “Koonibba Test Range.”
No more rockets.
No more missiles.
No more radioactive capsules.
This is sacred Googatha Country. It is not a military zone.
Please attend if you can—and share this message widely.

In solidarity,
Port Adelaide Community Opposing AUKUS (PACOA)

Actions, Adelaide FoE Notes, Nuclear

What Remains: Nuclear Legacies of the Montebello Islands

September 7, 2025

ICAN is hosting a Zoom discussion on this Tuesday, September 09, 2025 • 6:30pm – 7:30pm Adelaide

In the 1950s, the Montebello Islands off the Pilbara coast in Western Australia were the site of three British nuclear tests. The first, in 1952, detonated inside a warship anchored off Trimouille Island, followed in 1956 by two larger blasts as part of Operation Mosaic.

In July 2025, a group of artists, writers, researchers, and nuclear survivors travelled to the Montebello Islands to explore the lasting impacts of British nuclear testing there. They will come together in a conversational panel to reflect on what they witnessed and experienced, and discuss what they will carry forward from their time on the islands.

Featuring:

  • Jesse Boylan – Artist and ICAN Media and Comms Adviser (Convener).
  • Maxine Goodwin – ICAN Ambassador and nuclear veteran descendant.
  • Dr Liz Tynan – Writer and Academic. Tynan is author of The Secret of Emu Field: Britain’s Forgotten Atomic Tests in Australia & Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story. Her new book on the history of the Montebello Islands nuclear tests is due out in 2026.
  • Merilyn Fairskye – Visual artist living in Sydney. Her work explores the relationships between technology, atomic landscapes and community and have taken her on location to the Polygon in Kazakhstan, Sellafield, Chernobyl, and other key nuclear sites.
  • Paul Grace, Writer and nuclear veteran descendant. Author of Operation Hurricane: The story of Britain’s first atomic test and the legacy that remains.
  • Gary Blinco – Nuclear veteran descendant.
  • Tobias Holden – Student

The discussion is open to all. Please register at the link below.

       

Sponsored by

register via ICAN Australia

Adelaide FoE Notes, Nuclear

AUKUS – End it now

September 7, 2025

On the 4th Anniversary of Scott Morrison’s infamous, autocratic commitment of Australia to AUKUS without any public or parliamentary discussion…
IPAN, the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network, are holding a seminar with Guest Speaker Jim Green on AUKUS and Nuclear Waste, and reports from Anti-AUKUS activities around Australia.

That’s 6:30 to 8pm, Monday September 15th, Adelaide time for the talk and discussion on building the movement to cancel AUKUS and the Force Posture Agreement.

 

 

REGISTER via QR code (left) or
https://events.humanitix.com/aukus-end-it-now

Adelaide FoE Notes, Nuclear, Weapons proliferation, Zoom talks

Issues on nuclear waste storage

July 15, 2025

Recommendations by David Noonan comprise public interest disclosures that are required by Defence for an informed, transparent and accountable process on AUKUS Regulations 2025.

1. Civil Society faces federal imposition of untenable AUKUS N-sub nuclear waste storage.
Defence must respect affected Australian communities and Indigenous People’s ‘Right to Know’ the nuclear risks they face in imposed AUKUS nuclear waste storage facilities:

1.1 Defence must declare its intention to over-ride the SA Nuclear Waste Storage (Prohibition) Act 2000 to impose AUKUS N-sub reactor nuclear waste storage at Osborne, Port Adelaide.

1.2 Defence must publicly disclose which Australian regions and Indigenous Peoples are currently under consideration for imposed siting and compulsory land acquisition for an AUKUS High-Level nuclear waste storage, and which – if any – existing Defence lands are included in the regional short list that is currently being prepared across SA, the NT and WA.

1.3 Defence must become accountable over the future and fate of the Woomera Area, understood in national media to be a ‘favoured location’ for storage and disposal of AUKUS Nsub nuclear waste (“Woomera looms as national nuclear waste dump site including for AUKUS submarine high-level waste afr.com AFR 11 August 2023).

1.4 Defence must declare its reserved right to override the SA Nuclear Waste Storage (Prohibition) Act 2000 through powers in the Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Act 2024 Section.135 “Operation of State and Territory laws” to impose an AUKUS nuclear waste dump on outback lands and unwilling community in SA, by decree through these AUKUS Regulations.

2. Indigenous People have a UN recognised Human Right to Say No to nuclear wastes. Defence should respect the clear views of Indigenous Labor Senator Patrick Dodson and act to make the AUKUS Regulations consistent with the Recommendations of a Federal Inquiry Report (Nov 2023) into the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, stating:

“the Commonwealth Government ensure its approach to developing legislation and policy on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people be consistent with the Articles outlined in the UNDRIP”.

2.1 Defence must provide a clear disclosure as to whether or not they will commit to respect and comply with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Article 29 provision of Indigenous Peoples Rights to “Free, Prior and Informed Consent”, as a Right to Say No, over storage or disposal of hazardous materials on their lands – in this case AUKUS High-Level & Intermediate Level nuclear waste storage.

3. The undemocratic AUKUS Regulations “Section 105 (3) State and Territory laws that do not apply in relation to a regulated activity” that is intended to take up powers to impose Nsub nuclear reactor wastes which are currently illegal in SA, in the NT, and in WA, must be withdrawn by the AUKUS Minister Richard Marles MP and by Defence.

David Noonan’s full submission:

Noonan-AUKUS-N-sub-regulations-to-override-SA-laws-July-2025

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