Monday, August 29

'Reef Becoming Coal and Gas Highway'

QUEENSLAND'S first Greens senator Larissa Waters has used her parliamentary debut to warn that the state’s tourism industry is in danger of having its prized asset turned into a ‘‘coal and gas highway’’.

Senator Waters delivered her first speech to federal parliament yesterday afternoon promising to give progressive Queenslanders a voice in Canberra.
 
Ms Waters spoke of the importance of agriculture and the Great Barrier Reef to Queensland as well as the threats to those industries from climate change, coal mining and coal seam gas extraction.   Read More 

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