20 June

Ah Queensland. "If we don't do it somebody else will" is an excuse to never shut down anything. Child slavery and prostitution, drug trafficking. Etc. "The Premier also said his government would fast-track approvals for new coal mines – a trade for maintaining increased coal royalties introduced by the previous Labor government – saying he wanted to “continue to extract coal from this part of the world.” “It’s the cleanest, the workers who go there get paid the most, it is the most environmentally sustainable,” he said. “To shut down our coal industry would be doing nothing other than driving competitors into the arms of people who won’t do the same thing.”"