George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

The only people who will be affected by the government's proposed changes are those who would use the courts as a political weapon to game the system to make political points rather than to defend legitimate legal interests, because their capacity to engage in vigilante litigation and to misuse the processes of the courts will be taken away from them. But I will tell you who also will be affected by the government's changes, and they are the thousands upon thousands of Australian workers who will lose their jobs if vigilante green litigants are allowed to continue with their strategy but whom this government's decision to repeal section 487(2) of the EPBC Act will protect.

In Central Queensland, Senator Canavan, as well you know, some 10,000 jobs would be lost if the Adani project is not able to proceed. So talk to the 10,000 workers whose jobs would be lost, but this government is determined to save—