Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

and stop the provision of enough energy to power the lights of 100 million impoverished Indians for up to 90 years. You would think the Labor Party would say: 'We want to see the jobs in Australia. We want to see poverty alleviation.' This morning the President of the Labor Party, the member for Port Adelaide, the spokesman for the environment, Mark Butler, came out and said:

… for the life of me I can't see where the particular problem is.

For the life of me, he cannot understand what the problem is: stopping the mine creating 10,000 jobs, stopping a mine that is going to help 100 million impoverished Indians, stopping a mine—

Mr Butler interjecting—

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