short sighted ideologically driven state government policies that bend which ever way polls take them
Actually, that's the way democracy is supposed to work, and the right wing is not immune to it.
"Short sighted" is a matter of your opinion. I would say most opposed to Adani are actually exercising a "long sighted" viewpoint. The "short sighted" are tempted by short term construction jobs. The "long sighted" see very little gain to the Australian economy, and potential long-term damage.
The banks see a project unlikely to succeed.
So why would Joe Public want to fund it?
It ain't the Greens shutting this folly down.
A labour government is just as likely to make coal illegal.
Unlikely, but they might be the first government to have the guts to stop
subsidising it with your and my taxes.