Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

This is the Queensland Resources Council, that well-known bastion of Labor values:

It risks further mine closures and there are many coal projects on the drawing board that will now never get off that drawing board.

But what do we hear from the great defenders of mining jobs over there? Not a single word. You are absolutely hypocritical. You are happy to stand up for so-called mythical job losses before they have occurred when they have not occurred, but you will not stand up for those people whose jobs are in the gun because of your coalition mates.

Honourable senators interjecting—