Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Is the minister seriously suggesting that my concern—and the concern of four million other South-East Queenslanders—about an environmental disaster is simply a political game? The minister needs to wake up to herself. I further ask the minister: is the Rudd government’s reluctance to consider a royal commission part of a cover-up they have been involved in with the Queensland government to help hide the facts before the Queensland election next Saturday?