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

Adani's mega coalmine belongs in the bin, but the Queensland government has bent over backwards to put it on the fast track. Queensland Labor was elected to save the reef, but instead it is fast-tracking dangerous coal by declaring it to be critical infrastructure. In an age of global warming, a new coalmine is not critical infrastructure, and, according to recent polls, three-quarters of Queenslanders agree. True critical infrastructure are the schools, hospitals, good farmland, clean energy and the world-class national parks across our state. True critical infrastructure is the Great Barrier Reef and the 70,000 jobs that it provides. Labor's decision to fast-track this mine is unprecedented and completely improper for a private development. That declaration could fast-track water assessments and potentially strip community review and appeal rights. It is time that Queensland Labor stopped bending over backwards to support multinational mining companies and started protecting the reef, planning for the transition away from coal and genuinely creating jobs in regional Queensland in a clean manner. (Time expired)

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