Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) | Hansard source

Labor opposes the motion as it's factually inaccurate. The mine has not, at the current time, reduced staff from 300 to 150. This has only been foreshadowed at the current time. We do not believe that the Senate should be asking the Queensland government to interfere in a proper process, particularly when final orders resulting from the Full Court of Appeal have not been made and parties are being called to provide submissions. Labor also notes the Queensland government's ongoing support for the resources sector and that, over the past four years, the Palaszczuk government has facilitated more than $20 billion worth of resource reinvestment, which is supporting 7,000 jobs.