Graham Perrett (Moreton, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The Labor Party is bound by caucus rules. You would have to be an idiot not to know that the Labor Party is bound by caucus rules, but Exhibit A speaks up.

The reality is the environmental protection legislation before the chamber does not protect the environment. It undermines the very piece of legislation that John Howard and other environment ministers were proud of. I can speak with some authority on what goes on in Queensland and the reality is we do not have a state that is effective when it comes to policing its own environmental laws. It has no chance of making the right decision when it is bound to the profits from royalties from the mining industry.

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