Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. During a recent debate about coal, climate change and the Great Barrier Reef in this chamber, one of your backbenchers, the member for Flynn, stated—and I quote from the Hansard:

There's nothing wrong with the reef! I live on the reef!

Will you condemn this assessment, or is it now the government's official position? Is this why you're happy for the Deputy Prime Minister to bankroll the Adani coalmine and make global warming worse, using the drug dealer's defence that, if we don't give other countries our products, someone else will? With Adani under investigation for fraudulently siphoning hundreds of millions of dollars into offshore tax havens, why are you leaving a legally questionable minister in charge of giving a legally questionable company a billion dollars of taxpayers' money?

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