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

They will build certainty in the most obvious way so that those who decide to invest in major Australian projects know that their investments will be subject to the regular processes of approval by the appropriate authorities, that people potentially affected by those developments will have the same rights as they have always had under our legal system to make appropriate challenges but that political groups seeking to use the courts only for the purpose of the prosecution of political agendas will not be allowed to get away by using this section of the EPBC Act in order to wage political warfare—or as some people have called it, 'lawfare'—against those who are trying to build the Australian economy and bring jobs with them to ordinary hardworking Australians. And it is for the Labor Party to decide: are you on the side of the workers or are you on the side of the Greens?