Senate debates

Wednesday, 1 December 2021

Questions without Notice

Workplace Relations: Mining Industry

2:12 pm

Photo of Bridget McKenzieBridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Emergency Management and National Recovery and Resilience) Share this | Hansard source

I didn't forget your question. I was just reiterating the National Party's and the Liberal Party's commitment to a sustainable resources sector to ensure that these workers are absolutely being employed. And I'm just wondering whether, post next election—if you're planning to be in alliance and coalition with the Greens—you will actually hold the same views and whether the workers you purport to represent and stand up for in this place will actually be looking to you and asking: 'Why didn't you stand up for us? Why didn't you back a coal industry? Why didn't you back a gas industry?' These guys want to shut everything down. If it has the word 'fossil' in it—

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