Coalition sticks with Adani

While two-thirds of Australians are opposed to Adani’s Carmichael coalmine, why is it still being considered by Morrison’s government, which is supposed to represent us all? (Karen Middleton, “CSIRO steps back on Adani approval”, April 13-19). Why would we trash the Great Barrier Reef for the profits of a foreign billionaire? Why trash thousands of jobs on the reef for a smaller number in a dying industry? The Coalition government has spun the scientific assessment of the effect on groundwater and aquifers into a gold pass for this destructive climatechange-accelerating polluter. The Minerals Council and its member, Adani, donated $45,000 to the LNP in the past year. Labor returned $2200. The Greens do not accept corporate donations. Please vote to save the Great Barrier Reef and stop Adani this federal election.

– Mary Forbes, Eungai Creek, NSW

MAXINE BENEBA CLARKE is The Saturday Paper’s poet laureate, and the author of The Hate Race and Foreign Soil. She is a winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry.