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

Because the coal industry, as I said, is in rude health, there are still major investments that we can attract to this nation, notwithstanding, of course, the boom in investment is much reduced from what it was a few years ago. There is a very important project in regional Queensland at the moment that is on the table: the Adani Carmichael project. It could create thousands of jobs in regional Queensland, and it is very good news that we are attracting that investment in this country. It is even better news that over the past week it has got over more hurdles put up against it by environmental activist groups that are taking out court cases—not to try and protect the environment, but to try and disrupt and delay the latest projects. Last week two cases in the Queensland Supreme Court were dismissed against this project, which means now that there are many fewer court cases left to be decided. There are still some outstanding, but I am confident that this project can stack up, as long as we can get those groups who are opposed to coal and opposed to jobs in this country out of the way.