Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Those opposite find this enormously amusing. As Australia is the world’s largest coal exporter—I really find it interesting that those opposite find this so amusing—we are interested in protecting Australia’s long-term coal industry. We are interested in protecting Australia’s long-term coal exports. We are aimed at doing this both for our own economic interests and to make sure that we are doing the right thing by the global environment.

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