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

The Greens are supportive of parts (a) and (b) of this motion. Many regional towns in Queensland are doing it tough. Social support networks and hubs have an important role to play in these areas. However, this motion calls for the burden of licensing fees of pubs and hotels to be reduced, and it's being moved by a senator who has accepted more than 190 bottles of wine and 21 cases of beer from the Queensland and Australian hotels associations over the past six months, and whose party has accepted more than $1.1 million from the gaming, alcohol and hotels industries over the past five years. The Greens cannot support a motion that advances the interests of that industry.