Public hearings were held in early july in Kimba and Hawker as part of the senate inquiry giving communities an opportunity to have their say about flawed site selection process for the waste dump. A Canberra hearing will be held in early August before the senate committee report their findings on 14 August. From 20 August, the communities are being asked to participate in a ballot to gauge community sentiment. Neither the findings of the senate report nor the results of the ballot are binding on the Minister, who continues to avoid defining what constitutes the broad community support needed to select a site.Today we’ll hear extracts from the regional hearings.  Transcripts of the hearings can be found here:www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Economics/Wastemanagementfacility/Public_Hearings Here is a link to an article announcing the tripling of the "benefit" package to communties:www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/31-million-incentives-offered-to-sa-community-that-hosts-national-radioactive-waste-repository/news-story/52181a19634c51b5ad2176917fc4d40aPlease sign and share the petition and join the call to stop this process.