Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Minister for Resources and Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Unfortunately, there are other threats to these investments occurring. It is not just the behaviour of some trade union officials that has been alleged that is putting those investments at risk; it is also the conduct of another group in this alliance—environmental activist groups that are seeking to disrupt and delay these projects. We know they are seeking to do that, because they say so themselves. They say that they want to create breathing space through these legal challenges so that they can run a political campaign against the resources sector. They are not running these cases to protect the environment; they are running these cases for political purposes. And they are being supported in that endeavour, of course, by the Greens, but also by the Labor Party, who are also supported by the CFMEU, who also support both those political parties in their endeavours to stop resource projects from coming to this country. A trade union that is ostensibly set up to support mining workers, to support the creation of jobs in our resources sector, is funding the very people that want to stop those jobs being created. Again, that must be stamped out.