George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Our plan for Queensland jobs, just as is our plan for jobs across Australia, is to grow the economy. You have just heard the Minister for Employment speaking about the 336,000 new jobs that have been created in the last two years under the Abbott government. We want to see that happen in Queensland as well, and that is why the Carmichael mine project is so important to Queensland—in particular to Central Queensland. This is what Mr Keith De Lacy, Mr Goss's Treasurer, said in this morning's Courier-Mail:

… green activism had increased the costs of developing a mine by up to 10 times … "I agree with everything the Federal Government is doing …"

That is Mr De Lacy, the Treasurer in a successful state Labor government, the government of Mr Wayne Goss. He agrees with everything we are doing, and so should you, Senator Waters. But you are more concerned with ideological crusades than workers' jobs. (Time expired)