Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Minister for Resources and Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, the development of a mine like this creates economic opportunity right around Queensland and places like Queensland, but also right around Australia as well, because Adani have committed to use Australian steel on their rail line. It will be one of the few mineral based rail lines in this country that use Australian steel. The steel would be from Whyalla, so the people of Whyalla will get more economic opportunity in South Australia from this.

You would think that a former president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions would support the steel industry and would support the coalmining sector, but, instead, she's down there in Melbourne lining up with the Greens to say no to all these thousands of jobs. It's an indictment of the current state of the Australian Labor Party. They were formed under a tree in Barcaldine and they used to represent the shearers. They used to represent the people who worked out in the bush, but now they're so busy sipping lattes in the inner city and lining up for acai bowls in Melbourne that they've forgotten about the jobs and the people in rural and regional Australia.