Senator WATERS (Queensland) (12:06): I seek leave to make a short statement. The PRESIDENT: Leave is granted for one minute. Senator WATERS: This motion is about yet another new coalmine, and it seems to imply that perhaps judges are going to be the next target of the anti-protest laws of this administration, implying that somehow judicial activism should be silenced, which is sort of ironic considering the court just decided that the coalmine would be given a free pass on water impacts that every other new mine has to take into account. So I think the motion is somewhat misguided in several ways. I want to note that the New Acland coalmine has in fact been actively opposed by local farmers, who are terrified about the impacts on their water supply. Some friend of the farmer this government is! New Acland has also been found guilty of illegally drilling wells at 27 sites and was fined for that. The amount of that fine is, of course, dwarfed by the amount of donations made by the company to the state LNP administration at the time. I might also add that the former political adviser to the Queensland Premier is now a lobbyist for that mine. It's the revolving door between government and industry that is surely the more apposite issue. (Time expired)