ADANI ACTIVISTS TARGET PM OVER ‘COMPLETE RUBBISH’
DOZENS of anti-mining protesters have targeted Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Sydney home to rally against taxpayer funding for the Adani coal mine.
Activists chanted, waved placards and threw beach balls at the colourful Stop Adani rally, held at Lady Martins Beach in Point Piper, yesterday morning.
The group says the Government is exploring the possibility of using the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation to help the Indian mining giant’s project.
After a similar protest at the Gold Coast office of Steve Ciobo this week, a spokesman for the Tourism Minister dismissed the suggestion about EFIC as “complete rubbish”.
“The minister can not ‘order’ EFIC to fund loans to resources companies on its commercial account,” the spokesman said. “He can not order them to fund anything on the commercial account – it’s completely at arm’s length. And there are no proposals for Adani to receive funding on EFIC.”