I think the medium level waste repository only needs to be 50-100 km from a city. There is no need to involve indigenous communities. Mind you the touted $12m annual fee is not to be sneezed at. Most of the material is currently sitting in hospital store rooms without any drama. If the ex Lucas Heights material returning from France is to go there it will be vitrified (ie encased in glass) inside a 6 metre long concrete and steel canister. Just keep it in a similar spot to what they use for garbage tips in the city outskirts.

Yes. The naysayers never seem to wonder what happens to our own waste now. We need safe storage for that, so why not make some money out of countries who don't have room to store the waste from material they probably bought from us in the first place?

Win/win for Australia.

Anica, I'll contend you have no interest in finding a good place to store this waste.

I suppose it explains why they are suddenly so desperate to move Aboriginal people out of their comunities.

Child welfare, indeed!

Sorry Anica, you're wrong!

We have this thing called a vote!

And the right therefore, to vote exclusively for those who's views we essentially agree with!

And confounded by anti everything activists, who for the most part, propose we refuse to use our vote!

And so we'll feel essentially helpless, and therefore prime candidates for some serious radicalization!?

Some of the candidates over the years, have proposed a bill of rights, which would likely have included a citizens initiated referendum!?

And exactly the very instrument you say we don't have!?

Why not?

Well in all probability, political activists (control freaks?) not unlike your good self, have refused to get out of bed and go down and vote for it, when various candidates or parties have proposed it!?

How do the whiners, mostly young folks with no real gumption, expect to ring in overdue and peaceful change. When as a 40% demographic of the voting age vox populi; thanks to the advice of activists, refuse to vote!?

But as always are ready to fight almost anybody who dares disagree with their mostly moribund or brain washed views?

A bit of old fashioned attitudinal adjustment would likely be not out of place here Anica!

You can lead a camel to water, but you can't make him drink: unless you use a couple of bricks, where they'll produce the required effect; which then causes a huge intake of air or water?

Without bias and no offence intended!
Rhrosty.

Why do greenies have to make everything so hard. OK, yes I know it is the nature of the beast.

However, is it really too hard to drop the stuff, now depleted, back in the place it came from.

We could dig a hole at Rum Jungle, if we have been silly enough to fill the old one in, & drop it back where it sat for up to millions of years.

Nah, too simple & no hundreds of millions for academics to research the problem.