Peter Garrett (Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Heritage) Share this | Hansard source

The Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources and others have consistently said my remarks about the automatic expansion of the coal industry being a thing of the past ceased there; they do not. The statement was followed immediately by the words: ‘But that doesn’t and shouldn’t mean we can’t have a sustainable coal industry.’ And I went on to say that we should have increasing support for clean coal technology, which is something that the Howard government seems to be particularly remiss in doing.

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