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

Again, up-front, I outline and confirm that I expect all of Australia's laws to be adhered to, and that I have confidence in the power and record of our regulatory authorities. I am confident they will ensure that will happen, and I am confident it will happen in this case.

In the specific project that Senator Di Natale has raised, there is a proposal at the moment from Adani—and from the Queensland government, may I say—to the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility to look at lending money to Adani to build a rail line to open up the first coal basin in our country for 40 years. Almost every minerals province in this nation has been built—