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

As I said in my answer to the first question, eight Queensland mayors travelled to India in the last week to hear from Adani and express their own support for this project.

Senator Ian Macdonald interjecting—

These mayors represent hundreds of thousands of North Queenslanders, and they are fully behind and support this project, and I think their voices deserve to be heard. Senator Macdonald is absolutely right: these mayors are from different political persuasions. They come from different political parties. They do not always share my views on every issue, but we are all one and united in North Queensland in our support for this project. Graham Scott, the Chairman of Capricorn Enterprises, said: 'I just wish out-of-town activists would get their facts straight on Adani. If they did, they would understand why there is so much community support in Central Queensland for it to go ahead.' Vanessa Rauluni from Coal Train said: 'This project will create thousands of jobs for Central Queensland. It saddens me to see uninformed people from outside Central Queensland making moral judgements about our community.' Please, I ask those commenting on Adani to listen to the people that live there first. (Time expired)