Emails and Department of Employment and Workplace Relations Minute relating to the British Nuclear Testing Scheme

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The release comprises emails between DVA and the Attorney-General's Department from April to May 2022 about eligibility for the Administrative Scheme for the Purposes of Compensating Persons Present at British Nuclear Sites in Australia, along with a Department of Employment and Workplace Relations minute on the British Nuclear Testing (BNT) scheme. The correspondence concerns a constituent who may have worked at Maralinga in 1979, and notes that Veteran Gold Card eligibility was widened in 2017 for people compensated under specified schemes. The minute covers the BNT programme in Australia (twelve devices detonated between 1952 and 1957), claim numbers under the SRC Act and VEA, the closed Act of Grace and Special Administrative schemes, the claims process and White Card non-liability health care. Personal details of officers and constituents are withheld under s 47F, and the attachments include Aboriginal population tables and a 2001 Australian Government Solicitor letter, with some material withheld under s 42.