Kirsten Livermore (Capricornia, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Education) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

recognises the importance of the coal industry to the Australian economy;

(2)

notes that coal exports are Australia’s largest export industry and accounted for $24.5 billion in 2005-06;

(3)

understands that the coal industry is a highly significant employer in regional Australia;

(4)

notes that the Bowen Basin in Central Queensland produces 85 per cent of Queensland’s total coal output and is vitally important to the economy of Central Queensland;

(5)

asserts that the Australian Labor Party supports the coal industry and its subsequent benefits to the Australian economy; and

(6)

recognises that Labor’s plans on climate change and clean coal are directed at protecting the coal industry and the jobs within this industry, while mitigating the effects of man-made climate change.