Against Proposed Site for Parliament Houses

I submit to the Inquiry that: (a) PFAS production and use be eliminated or severely restricted where no alternatives exist (b) During a transition away from PFAS chemicals that products and services carry PFAS warnings (similar to those used to deter smoking) (c) Any toxic PFAS waste dumps conform to Australia’s National Environmental Management Plan and that any such toxic waste dump is located sufficiently far away from residential areas, primary industries, water resources and sites of significance to Australian Indigenous communities.

Here they are partially reliant on food wastes from town dumps as well as the resultant vermin that breed here.

Some people would argue that oil shale could be dumped somewhere else, but considering the volume of it, I cannot imagine 60 metre high dumps of spent shale stretching for kilometres around the area.

For more than a century they've been making steel on this site at Maud St, Waratah, a suburb of Vewcastle, they currently produce train wheels Ind axles and grinding balls used in mining.

Passive Design Due to the shape of the site, overall building orientation on an East-West axis is not possible.

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Demographic Profile Population 2,640 Age 0-14 16.7% Age 15-24 9.7% Age 25-34 7.9% Age 35-54 29.1% Age 55-74 27.3% Age 75+ 9.4% Council Area 261,950 hectares Number of rateable properties 2,171 Site value of rateable properties $542,582,600 Roads Council 1,107 kms Transport SA 108 kms Average Rainfall 350mm Page 4 The last twelve months has seen the Tumby Bay Council and the community experience some major changes in Council staff and five new Council members.

Mr RUSSELL: It sits on the site of what is called the Rubicon room which is a function area.

R o a d P a y n e h a m R o a d New Building EntryExisting Carpark Entries Patterson Sports Ground K e n t S t r e e t Significant Tree >2.5dia Significant Tree >1.5dia Existing Tree New Tree Legend Existing Bush 10 40m0 Existing Carparking Layout Pr op os ed S ite B ou nd ar ie s Site Plan 940-SD03 Schematic Design Proposed New Office Facility Payneham and O .