David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Resources and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Yesterday at the Western Australian Labor Party election launch the Minister for Climate Change and Water, representing the Prime Minister, endorsed the policies of Labor in WA, which include the banning of mining and export of uranium. Given that the former antinuclear activist, the current Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Mr Garrett, last week approved of the expansion of the Beverley uranium mine in South Australia, isn’t this further evidence that Labor is hopelessly divided on the development of a national uranium mining policy and how Australia can contribute to the reduction of global emissions?