Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Is coal not the chief villain responsible for greenhouse gas emissions which are creating dangerous climate change, threatening 128,000 jobs in the Murray-Darling Basin and 67,000 jobs on the Great Barrier Reef—including a $6 billion economy there which puts its money back into the Australian economy, unlike the foreign owned coal industry?