Australia news live: Sarah Hanson-Young tells government to get on with real gambling reform or ‘we’ll do it in the Senate ourselves’

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Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young was also asked about her call for a moratorium on building of data centres until there are the proper laws in place to regulate their impact on the country’ energy, water use, environment and communities.

Asked about the proposal, Hanson-Young said:

I want an ironclad guarantee for the Australian people: their power bills won’t go up, their water is going to be protected, their jobs are going to be protected, and that they get some type of community benefit because without those things there is going to be no social license and it’s evaporating very quickly.

The government said they weren’t prepared to move at all, and now here they are. So, I mean … they’re playing games here.

Their own backbenchers know it’s not strong enough.

If you are not prepared to do what’s needed here, well, we’ll take this out of your hands and we’ll do it in the Senate ourselves.

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