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

Senator Waters, you raised the issue. I am just pointing out to you that you have led a campaign to prevent the greatest economic opportunity presenting itself to the people in central Queensland, a region, which, if you ever cared to visit it, Senator Waters, you would find is in bad economic shape at the moment. And people in Rockhampton, people in Mackay, people in Gladstone and people in Emerald are desperately looking to the Adani mine and the—on some estimates—up to 10,000 jobs that the Adani mine would create to secure their futures and the future of their children and their grandchildren. And you, Senator Waters, stand in the way of that and you come into this chamber crying crocodile tears about jobs in regional Queensland.