Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question to the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia asks if the minister is aware of the importance of the Adani coalmine and what it will mean for jobs in Queensland. I ask the minister if he might be able to update the Senate on progress with the Adani Carmichael project in Queensland. Particularly, could the minister tell me what support the project's received from the Queensland Labor government? I note that the Labor Premier of Queensland was in favour of it, then she was against it; the Deputy Premier was against it, but she was part of a government that was in favour of it; the Queensland Treasurer has a different view; the candidate for Burdekin, which is where this mine is, is all over the ship on it. I'm wondering if the minister might be able to clarify the real position of the Queensland government, the Australian government—