Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Di Natale is only half right. It is certainly true to say that coalition senators, those of us on this side of the chamber, strongly support the Adani project as a job-creating multibillion-dollar investment which will deliver very important jobs, in particular, to the people of Central and North Queensland.

On the coalition side of the Senate, we do support it. I'm not so sure about the Labor Party. The Batman by-election might have something to do with it. Whenever there's an election—and I've said this in this chamber before—we get the Shorten wibble-wobble or the Palaszczuk wibble-wobble. The Labor Party is in favour but they're against. We've got an election coming up in Batman, so now they're likely to be against. That is at least what the Labor candidate appears to have said. Let me tell you unequivocally: there is no wibble-wobble on the Liberal-National Party side of this chamber. We are in favour of this $16 billion-plus investment. We are in favour of the in excess of 11,000 jobs that it will create. We want to see it proceed and we'd like to think that the Labor Party— (Time expired)