Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

As the Attorney-General highlighted yesterday, one of the biggest threats to employment in regional Australia is capricious, half-baked and radical environmental activism. Radical environmentalists are using the act to pursue aggressive litigation designed to disrupt and sabotage important job-creating projects, all outline in this blueprint. No-one is denying that this is taking place, least of all the environmentalists when they say:

We will lodge legal challenges to the approval of all of the major new coal ports, as well as … mega-mines … for strategic campaign purposes.

Not to protect the environment; just for their strategic campaign purposes:

By disrupting and delaying … we are likely to make … them unviable.

We as a country cannot stand idly by and allow that to continue and we as a government will not.