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

My question is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate representing the Prime Minister, Minister Cormann. Today, world leaders are meeting in Poland at COP24 to work out how to end the existential threat of climate change, yet, without any irony, when the state of Queensland was on fire and burning with record-breaking temperatures, the multinational Adani Group, backed by the Liberal and Labor parties, announced that they would self-fund and move ahead with this carbon bomb. Is it true that your government could stop Adani's mine going ahead by revoking its environmental approval under section 145 of the EPBC Act, based on new information like the IPCC's climate warnings or the evidence of Adani's overseas and domestic breaches? If so, why won't you do this?