ACEL

Australian Centre for Environmental Law (Australian National University)

ACF

Australian Conservation Foundation

ADJR Act

Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

ALEC

Arid Lands Environment Centre

ALRA

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

ANSTO

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

ARPANS Act

Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Act 1998

ARPANSA

Australia Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency

the Bill

Radioactive Waste Management Bill 2010

CLC

Central Land Council

CRWM Act 2006

Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Legislation Amendment Act 2006

the current Act

Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act 2005

the Department

Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism

ECA

Senate Environment, Communications and the Arts Committee

ECNT

Environment Centre (Northern Territory)

EM

explanatory memorandum

EPBC Act

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

ESD

ecologically sustainable development

HPA Act

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984

IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

NLC

Northern Land Council

OECD

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Scrutiny Committee

Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills