Barnaby Joyce endorses loan for Adani's Carmichael coalmine

Deputy prime minister uses worse-than-expected GDP figures to urge Queenslanders to show 'spunk' and 'get the thing built'

The deputy prime minister, Barnaby Joyce, has declared the Adani mine needs to proceed, and he's endorsed giving the project a concessional loan in order to "get the thing built and get the money flowing".

Joyce used Wednesday's worse-than-expected GDP figures to urge Queenslanders to "show the same spunk you had when you developed the coalfields in the past, built international airports at Cairns, built the Wivenhoe dam, sealed the roads out west, built the Gold Coast".