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

Mr President, I have a supplementary question following on from that answer. Isn't it true that the $9 million to be spent on reskilling people pales into insignificance with the hundreds of millions which will be taken from the minerals tax for infrastructure for the coal industry which, amongst other things, aims to increase the number of mega coal ships going out via the Barrier Reef from 1,500 to 10,000 in the coming decade, with a consequent threat to the 68,000 jobs dependent on the Great Barrier Reef?