Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Agriculture. Given Chinese government owned company Shenhua's Watermark coalmine is about to be developed in the heart of the Liverpool Plains, what have you, as Minister for Agriculture, and your government done to protect the Liverpool Plains from mining and what will you do to stop this mine going ahead and irreversibly damaging some of the best agricultural land in Australia? Doesn’t massive coalmining in the heart of some of the most fertile farmland in the country demonstrate the failure of the National Party to stand up for farmers against the mining industry?

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