Northern Territory

The Australian Greens today responded to the news that Inpex are now hoping to build a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant in Darwin with a mix of both relief and significant concern.
 

The Australian Greens will today move in the Senate to ban future nuclear waste dumps in the Northern Territory.
 
Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam will introduce legislation to repeal the Howard government's Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act 2005 and is hopeful the Rudd Government will fulfil its election promise and support the move.
 

The Greens in the Northern Territory received an average vote of 15.9% across the six seats contested, up from an average of 9.5% in the 2005 Territory Election, Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.
 

"Voting Green is double-value voting"

The Northern Territory Greens are the real opposition in this election, tackling big issues like uranium mining and land-clearing, Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.

The Rudd Government is about to ditch a key election promise as Martin Ferguson moves to foist a nuclear waste dump onto the Northern Territory.

The Labor Party promised Northern Territory electors it would repeal Howard's nuclear waste dump legislation in the heat of their election campaign," said Senator Rachel Siewert today.