John Williams (NSW, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy President, I seek leave to make a one-minute statement.

Leave granted.

The president of the Narrabri Chamber of Commerce, Russell Stewart, says the vast majority of Narrabri Shire is pro-Santos, and sick to death of the fly-in fly-out protesters. Mr Stewart said, 'We don't have a problem with coal seam gas. We have a problem with out-of-towners coming here and revving things up.' The Northern Daily Leader reported that two South Australian women locked themselves to an excavator and police asked them to remove themselves. In 2014, one lady at Maules Creek positioned herself underneath a bulldozer blade as it was being lowered. This is reckless and stupid. We remember the fake press release sent by Jonathan Moylan and the Greens congratulating him on wiping $314 million off the value of Whitehaven Coal. The Greens cheer on law-breakers, but our police have better things to do with their time than to be at these blockades every day where protesters put themselves in danger. I will ensure this disgraceful motion is relayed to the New South Wales police minister, Troy Grant, so that he can let every police officer in the state know what the Greens really think.