Bob Katter (Kennedy, Katter's Australian Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The announcement has been made that there will be net zero emissions by 2050. It is not humanly possible for us to meet that time frame without closing down the Australian coal industry. Now, either the government and the ALP are lying through their teeth or, alternatively, the coal industry is closing down. If the coal industry closes down—half of the nation's entire income comes from iron ore and coal, and half of that is coal. Iron ore, zinc, aluminium and copper comprise almost all of our exports, and of course all of the metals are mined. That's ore. Turning the ore into metals requires smelting. Smelting requires coal. So, again, unless we are seeing a monumental piece of lying hypocrisy, then all of Australia's income, real income, vanishes. I'm not talking about round-robin industries. Vanishes— (Time expired)