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

There are some in this place who do not share the interests of those people in North Queensland. There are some who do not live there but want to tell the people of North Queensland how they should do things and what they should invest in. I talk particularly of the Greens. Last time I checked, the Greens at the federal election received the support of about three per cent of North Queensland, so you could say that there is a 97 per cent consensus among the people of North Queensland that the Greens do not have a plan for the people of North Queensland. They do not.

I welcome the fact that Senator Chisholm today was calling out the extremism of this party. I welcomed Senator Chisholm's reports in the media today that the Greens are extremists who are against the economic development of North Queensland. Unfortunately, sometimes his party is conflicted, though, because yesterday, despite his comments today, Senator Gallacher was in this place calling into question the Adani project and saying that it has to stack up environmentally, even though it has got all its environmental approvals. It is probably the most assessed project in our history, but still we see the Labor Party trying to walk both sides of the street on this. They have to get on this train. They are either for jobs or against them.