MR LES JOHNSON, MHR FOR HUGHES & OPPOSITION WHIP

A.) though almost a year has passed since the

Government indicated that it1  was preparing .a plan

to cope with accidents at the Research Establishment,

no plan has been released.

Mr Les Johnson,  MHR for Hughes asked the Minister

for National Development,  Mr Kevin Newman,  on the

9th March,  when the plan would be made available -to the Parliament residents'and workers.

To date no reply has been received.  .  .

Mr Johnson said that an unpublished contingency

1  plan of this nature is of no use unless it is

adequately publicised and distributed to workers

as well as reeidents living within a prescribed

distance from the Atomic Energy Research Establishment

at Lucas Heights.  '

May 23, 1978

