Arthur Sinodinos (NSW, Liberal Party, Cabinet Secretary) Share this | Hansard source

I may well ask the good senator whether his party will give a guarantee not to use technicalities of the law to stop major job-generating projects in places like Queensland. I find it a bit rich that you seek to attack these provisions and, at the same time, are always telling us and lecturing us about signing up to international conventions, of all sorts, which hobble the capacity of the Australian government to do things that we regard as being in the Australian national interest.