Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

and ensure that investigations against members of the Adani corporate group for fraud, for money laundering, for tax minimisation and for corruption would be undertaken and that there would be mandatory consultation with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, ASIC, and with the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission. This is a crucial bill because it goes to the integrity of our approval system and it goes to the level of scrutiny that the government undertakes when giving out taxpayer dollars.

This bill is also an important next step in the campaign to stop Adani opening up the world's largest coalmine right when we have just lost half of the coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef, in the largest bleaching, with the highest mortality, that the reef has ever seen in its ancient history. It is really clear to us, on examination by many other experts, including lawyers from Environment Justice Australia, that this company is a dodgy company pushing an environmentally and economically destructive project. The Adani mine is the best example of the way in which the big parties—both of them, sadly—are working for big corporations rather than for citizens.

Senator Ian Macdonald interjecting—

Australians know that our political system is broken and that our economic system is rigged against everyday people, and that same system lets greedy bankers rip off everyday people with the full protection of politicians.

Senator Ian Macdonald interjecting—

Mr Acting Deputy President, I am so over the interjections by Senator Ian Macdonald, who does this routinely when I am on my feet and when other female senators are on their feet. I ask you to call him to order and, if he will not desist, I ask you to eject him from the chamber. I have had six years of Senator Macdonald and I have had enough.