Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the minister for his answer. Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. In the area of coal seam gas and open-cut mining—which is, as he acknowledged, an issue with food-producing farmers in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland—does he think it is proper that former National Party MPs should be engaged in lobbying government against the interests of those farmers or that money should be channelled from such companies? (Time expired)