Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Xstrata cite as one of the reasons they have pulled out of this new port that there is 'excess port capacity' in Queensland. This is industry admitting that they do not need to build this port and, by extension, any of the other six coal and gas ports that are proposed. Now that industry has admitted it, will government grow a backbone and rule out putting new ports in the Great Barrier Reef?