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

Senator Waters, the fact that Australia has the honour to have been elected as the chair of the Green Climate Fund should give you a pretty clear indication that Australia commands more respect on this issue than you are prepared to accord to your fellow Australians. Senator Waters, the very coalmine that you are trying to block in Central Queensland, the Carmichael mine, will produce much cleaner coal, much more energy-efficient coal, much less-polluting coal than the coal which Adani sources at the moment, which is coal largely imported from Indonesia, some of the dirtiest coal in the world. According to your twisted logic, Senator Waters, it is better that Indian coal fired power stations be fuelled by dirty, polluting Indonesian coal rather than by clean, productive Australian coal. (Time expired)