The NSW Government has considered dumping radioactive waste from the Radium Hill site in Hunter’s Hill into a normal solid waste landfill, according to documents obtained by Liberal MP Michael Richardson.

The Iemma Government is intending to put the survival of one of the world’s rarest bird species, the Lord Howe Island woodhen, at risk by dropping rat poison around the bird’s island home, Liberal Member Michael Richardson warned today. 

A vacant block next to the land now owned by the State Government in Nelson Parade Hunters Hill gave radiation readings in the 1960s so high that anyone exposed to the hotspot would have received the annual allowable dose of radiation in just 11 hours, documents obtained by Liberal MP Michael Richardson show.

Australia’s first female High Court Judge, Justice Mary Gaudron, built a house and raised a family on part of the Radium Hill uranium smelter site, documents obtained by Member for Castle Hill Michael Richardson show.

Letters from the Health Department obtained under FOI by Member for Castle Hill Michael Richardson suggest the Iemma Government planned to pass off radioactive waste as industrial waste when cleaning up the site of a uranium smelter in Hunters Hill.