The Greens are calling on both major parties to listen to the community and back their bill to give farmers the power to block mining exploration on their land.
"The community is way out ahead of the government and the opposition, they want our food security protected," said Queensland's Greens Senator Larissa Waters.
"It's incumbent on the major parties to think long and hard about their position on this bill."
The Greens' bill will struggle to get passed when it's introduced to federal parliament on Wednesday, after Opposition Leader Tony Abbott this week declared he wouldn't back it. Read More
The Age
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