Adani protesters shut down WA Parliament, ejected from public gallery
Protesters against a coal mining project in Queensland briefly shut down question time in WA Parliament on Tuesday.
About eight protesters in the public gallery interrupted Housing Minister Peter Tinley to shout slogans about Adani's Carmichael mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin.
"Labor, it's time, to stop the Adani coal mine," they chanted.
"Climate before profit."
The protesters left Parliament's public gallery after security asked them to leave.
The disruption lasted for about five minutes before Parliament resumed.
The protesters live-streamed the brouhaha on Facebook.
The Adani project was previously valued at $16.5 billion and would have been the largest resources project in the nation.
It suffered years of delays due to legal challenges and a failure to secure private sector finance in Australia or overseas.
But the mine's proponent decided to fund the project itself.