Rex is a crucial service for many regional and remote Australians, operating routes that other commercial airlines don’t fly, such as Parkes to Sydney in NSW, Mildura to Melbourne in Victoria, and Mount Isa to Cairns in Queensland.
Australia has accumulated almost 5,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste (around the volume of two Olympic size swimming pools). This does not include uranium mining wastes, which are disposed of at mine sites.