Just one more on the hollowness of the ‘once in a generation’ line the government is using for its mining friendly environment laws, listening back to ABC radio RN Breakfast and Murray Watt says:

There’s certainly some more that we could compromise on. There is a limit to what we’re prepared to compromise on [but] I’ve always said that I’m a realist. I am a senator. I work in the Senate. I understand that you’ve got to make changes to bills to get them through.

They had them through last year, but they didn’t want to upset the mining industry. So here we are.