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Australia Talking About JSF Environmental Impact

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Friday, December 18th, 2009

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Greg Combet, Australia's minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science, said this week that consultation about the environmental impact of the new Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is already underway, almost a decade ahead of the aircraft's arrival at RAAF Williamtown. Defence is conducting community consultation about the JSF in the Williamtown area as part of the preparation of a Public Environment Report (PER), he said. "Accusations made by the Member for Paterson, Bob Baldwin, that Defence is not listening to…

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