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

My question is to the Prime Minister. Up to 70,000 jobs depend on a healthy reef. But, according to a transcript on your website, on 11 April this year you justified tipping $1 billion of public money into the ticking Adani time bomb by stating that it 'will create tens of thousands of jobs'. Yesterday your energy minister said the figure was, '4,000 direct jobs and up to 8,000 indirect jobs'. Adani itself has said that it wants to automate the project from mine to port, and its own expert witness said in court that 'around 1,464 direct and indirect jobs will be created'. Knowing that there are penalties for deliberately misleading the House, are you prepared right now to repeat your false claim that the Adani project will create tens of thousands of jobs?

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