“I can confirm that is the case, that we no longer act for Adani,” Milner said. The Galilee Blockade activist group also released Milner’s number to its supporters, with hundreds phoning and texting through to ask him to drop Adani. Ben Pennings, a spokesman for Galilee Blockade, said: “Concerned citizens forced Cameron Milner to drop Adani. Queensland Labor has been in bed with Adani too long and must drop Adani too.”Kirsten Lovejoy, the Greens candidate for the inner-Brisbane seat of McConnell, said Adani “doesn’t seem to need a lobbyist anymore” and Labor was “moving into damage control”. “Cameron Milner worked for Queensland Labor, then Adani, then Bill Shorten, then Adani again, and now Queensland Labor again.

Source: The Guardian October 16, 2017 06:49 UTC