Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Industry) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Abetz, the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources. I refer the minister to the government’s $23 million taxpayer funded climate change advertising campaign. I ask: can the minister indicate whether the advertisements will tell Australians that under the Howard government Australia is the second highest per capita greenhouse polluter in the world, our emissions are projected to grow by a further 27 per cent by 2020, and Australia is one of only two industrialised nations to have not ratified the Kyoto protocol? If the government’s climate change advertising campaign really was about providing information, wouldn’t it contain facts like these? Or is it instead just another propaganda campaign, more about cynical pre-election spin than providing factual information?