By Tom Place For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 13:02 BST, 26 May 2019 | Updated: 13:03 BST, 26 May 2019
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Ministers have called for 'professional protesters' on the dole to have their welfare money withheld.
Protesters travelled to Queensland to protest Adani's planned $2billion coal mine at Carmichael ahead of the Federal Election.
Queensland voters responded by swinging towards the Coalition and contributing significantly to Scott Morrison's shock re-election as Prime Minister.
Now, Queensland MPs have called for activists who are receiving welfare money to have the payments stopped, the Sunday Mail reported.
Queensland Police Union President Ian Leavers (right) said protesters actions putting public safety at risk by stretching police resources
Protesters travelled to Queensland to protest Adani's planned $2billion coal mine at Carmichael ahead of the Federal Election
'Newstart is funded by taxpayers, who would expect recipients to use it for its intended purpose of supporting them while they look for work, not supporting them in a lifestyle of being a full-time protester,' Social Services Minister Paul Fletcher said.
Queensland Police were also highly critical of what they called professional protesters with Union president Ian Leavers adding that their actions were putting public safety at risk by stretching
