Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

One Nation will oppose this motion. The Carmichael coalmine operators agreed to the most stringent environmental conditions of any infrastructure project in Australia's history. Environmental activists used every dirty trick to try to stop the mine and they failed. Far Left ideologues trying to destroy your mining industry forced Adani to wear millions of dollars in court costs from vexatious and frivolous lawsuits. These same dishonest, immoral anti-human environmental pests are now intimidating and bullying the mine suppliers and service providers to interfere in the mine's operations. One Nation stands 100 per cent behind the Carmichael mine and 100 per cent behind Queensland's mining industry and we will do everything in our power to protect their lawful enterprise. Queenslanders need jobs, community infrastructure and services that will come from opening the Galilee Basin, just as Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen approved the Bowen Basin, which opened up Central Queensland.