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

The government is committed to ensuring that we can facilitate investment in this country, that we can facilitate projects like the Adani coalmine, which represents a game changer for Central and North Queensland in our country that would create thousands of jobs. They are the kinds of projects we need. To do so, we need to make sure that those sorts of projects are not held up for years in litigation, as this project has been. We need to get behind reforms that the government has previously announced and committed to to facilitate these investments, to unclog our court system from these abusive legal processes. That is why the government will recommit to doing that. We will recommit to trying to do what we can to create jobs in this country, and we will of course commit to reforms to our trade unions. I expressed in my first speech my views on the good work that trade unions have done. But we need to make sure we have laws in place that make trade unions put their members' interests before their own interests.