Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister and goes to the Prime Minister’s upcoming taxpayer funded television advertising campaign on climate change, which we assume will start in the break. Is the Prime Minister aware that the head of BHP Billiton, Mr Chip Goodyear, when asked this week about Labor’s target of 60 per cent cuts in emissions by 2050, stated:

Well targets for us, we set targets in every aspect of our business whether it is around profitability or production or cost and so on. Targets give people something to focus on and that is OK by us.

Prime Minister, is Mr Goodyear wrong? Through this advertising campaign are you simply seeking to convince the Australian people that climate change sceptics have somehow just become part of the climate change solution?

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