Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for his question. Might I remind him that what we now have is a process that is before the state government. We have done everything within our power to make sure that there is proper oversight of environmental issues. But he does bring to clear light the jobs of people in Queensland, which he referred to—the jobs of people in Central Queensland as attached to the Adani mine, which I am sure the member for Dawson is very interested in and which I am sure that other members from Central Queensland, the member for Flynn and the member for Capricornia, have a vital interest in, because it is the Australian Labor Party that is standing in front of the prospect of these—

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