Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, it was including traditional owners from the Wenlock River in the cape and all of the traditional owners of the Cooper Creek and Georgina and Diamantina rivers in western Queensland. A representative of all of those Indigenous communities of those western rivers has recently written to Campbell Newman stating:

The rapid spread of mining, particularly coal seam gas, threatens these rivers ... It is only the protection under the Wild Rivers Act that gives us hope that permanent damage will be prevented.

We have written to you many times to inform you that we want the protection of our rivers under the Wild Rivers Act but you have ignored us.

Given the LNP's refusal to listen to Indigenous communities who support wild rivers, what will the federal government do to listen to the wishes of many traditional owners throughout the state who want their rivers protected?