WA's Premier Roger Cook backs the state's resources industry amid revelations his predecessor Mark McGowan pressured the environmental watchdog to withdraw emissions guidance, but concedes he was not privy to the conversation.

So, a little follow up from the Mark Mcgowan-EPA story.

Roger Cooks basically said today he’d back the mining industry peeps over the rest of WA.

I don’t think he meant it to come across that way. But if your not in the mining industry, well it seems your pretty low priority. Or am I taking his words too negatively?

  • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When grilled about the claims on Monday, Premier Cook declared he would “absolutely” go into bat for the resources industry.

    I don’t think he meant it to come across that way

    He knows exactly where his political loyalty lay. With his doners.