Since February when Labor’s shadow defence minister said that “Collapse of [the] global coal market [was] ‘a good thing'”, he has disappeared off the Radar.
“Collapse of global market for thermal coal ‘a good thing’: Labor’s Richard Marles” – AFR
“Richard Marles’ remarks ‘insulting to workers’: Canavan” – Weekly Times
“Labor shafts itself on coal conumdrum” – Couriermail
“Coal collapse ‘a good thing’, Labor MP Richard Marles” – The Australian