Scott `Morrison, Bill Shorten in Brisbane

Adani protesters have stormed the stage while Prime Minister Scott Morrison addressed the Valley Chamber of Commerce in Brisbane today, before another group stood up chanting as he tried to continue.

TWO Adani protesters have stormed the stage while Prime Minister Scott Morrison addressed the Valley Chamber of Commerce in Brisbane today.

Mr Morrison began his speech asking “how good is Trevor Evans?” when a protester ran onto the stage holding a “stop Adani” poster.

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Security removed the woman and the Prime Minister tried to continue his speech but was interrupted by a second protester also storming the stage.

A Stop Adani protester takes to the stage where Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was making a speech at the Valley Chamber of Commerce business luncheon in Brisbane. Picture: AAP/Dave Hunt

Mr Morrison laughed off the incident, asking if there were any contestants for round three.

A third protester stood up in the crowd saying the Prime Minister was forgetting about climate change.

Mr Morrison said he “would get to climate change” before the man was escorted out by security.

A fourth group stood up, this time chanting, before also being escorted out.

The protests followed the entire lockdown of the building after Adani protesters gathered outside the building, chanting against the Government.

It comes after the PM blasted vegan activists as “green-collared criminals” for targeting farmers and causing traffic chaos today.

A farm in Queensland’s Darling Downs was one of several properties targeted, while in Melbourne nearly 40 activists were arrested.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is also in Brisbane, where he took aim at the Government and Mr Morrison, claiming the Environment Minister was being bullied over Adani.

Morrison: Shorten ‘doesn’t get Australians’

PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has reignited his election campaign in southeast Queensland today, saying Opposition Leader Bill Shorten “doesn’t get how Australians like to live” and has slammed Labor’s plans to increase electric vehicles.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison at GCI Group, Yatala. Picture: Peter Wallis

Visiting GCI Group, a laser cutting service at Yatala, Mr Morrison said Shorten was taking away the choices of the nation’s people.

“Bill Shorten is not going to give people a choice in the future — electric vehicles currently make 0.2 per cent of the vehicle market in Australia and he wants to take it to 50 per cent but it’s not just that, it’s also the carbon emissions per kilometre that he’s imposing on the economy,” he said.

“What Bill Shorten wants to corral people into as part of his plan is out of the sort of lifestyle that are supported by the vehicles that people are currently buying.

“So I think it just shows he doesn’t get how Australians like to live. We’re leaving the choice in the hands of Australians — Bill Shorten wants to take that choice away.”

Regarding Adani, the Prime Minister said the Government would be taking advice from scientists.

“We’re taking the advice from scientists like we have on all the approvals of both the state and commonwealth … we’re following the normal administrative process on that … I don’t think there is anything particularly unique about these remaining matters — they’re quite minor matters,” he said.

“In the scheme of the broader approvals that have already been provided, and like in all the other cases, we will be relying on the scientific evidence that is provided to the Government when making that decision.”

Mr Morrison made no confirmation of the election date and simply said it would be in May.

PM’s $7m sporting announcement

The Prime Minister has made an announcement that $7 million would be committed to building the National Cricket Campus in Brisbane, saying the investment would help redevelop Allan Border Field into a hub for female cricket as well as transform the Shaw Rd community facility to grow junior participation in cricket.

“Sport brings communities and Australians together … this is about taking cricket in Australia to the next level with world-class facilities.”