I doubt whether it would be possible to find any site acceptable to Ms Niepraschk. For any site nominated would suddenly be "identified" as one with particular indigenous significance - although there would be no previous record of that significance, or any archaeological findings, and the indigenous people concerned might not have lived near the site for decades.

Compensation would have to be paid. Sad really but there it is..

Hear, hear, succinctly put and exactly Curmugeon!

And given that is so, community consent could be found all over the place, if the price or sit down money, is right?
Rhrosty.

"The federal government - once again - is looking for a place to dump its nuclear waste."

No. They are looking for a site to build a facility to safely house nuclear waste Australia is directly responsible for. They don't 'consult', but waffle on about junk science when they spend billions of our money on the global warming swindle. They should explain the legitimate science concerning the  safety of modern nuclear handling, and get on with it. If our stupid politicians cannot manage this task, they should step aside and allow people who know what they are doing to run Australia.

Yes I agree with Curmudgeon this process is likely to be derailed by the usual not in someone else backyard rent a crowd.

We had a scared site suddenly appear when a development was about to be done to our local marina. The local elders had never heard of this scared rock before, but the local aboriginal lawyers had. Money changed hands, to compensate for us evil white guys damage to their site. The plans change to show case the scared rock. Low and behold once the transfer had cleared, no further mention of the scared site, no visit by the local elders nothing.

Mean while a real well established aboriginal site 20km's continues to only be visited by tourist.

As for the nuke dump, I live and work near the three in SA, and would not be bothered in the slightest by them.

"The South Australian shortlisted sites also get increasingly entangled in a debate as to whether the state might offer itself up as the world's nuclear waste dump, accepting high-level nuclear waste from power reactors around the world"

That raises the concern that the cash-strapped State and federal governments will use any repository for the small amount of waste produced in Australia, most from medical imaging and scientific research as the thin edge of a wedge to make Australia the World's dump.

Until the major political parties make a firm public undertaking in writing, no weasel words, that Australia will NOT, EVER, be taking nuke waste from other countries, there can be no agreement with the siting of a dump.

How remarkably incoherent this is. Clearly the criticism of FoEs of the Earth drumming up the donations by beating the fear gong with no positive solutions has stung, because now in addition to their usual shtick we get the single armwave line "other options should be considered" and "it is far from clear that a centralized facility is the best option". So apparently FoE are fine with multiple managers of multiple facilities in multiple locations, and all of it to be scattered throughout our suburbs and hospitals for another decade or two in the meantime. Yet putting it in a single facility in a single place with a single manager will somehow bring on the apocalypse? Or so they've undoubtedly been doing their damnedest to convince nearby communities.

Oh and the Hale site is 75 kilometres from Alice Springs. This is a usage of 'near' of which I wasn't previously aware.