Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Is the minister aware that the UK, Germany, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Sweden are all projected to achieve an absolute cut in their 1990 emissions by the 2010 Kyoto deadline? Doesn’t this fly in the face of the Howard government’s claims that achieving cuts in emissions will do irreparable damage to the economy? Why is the government so keen to tell the Australian public that they cannot achieve what these countries have?