Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Mr President, you will have heard that the minister totally failed to answer my question about two degrees being the unacceptable level of climate change and then about the tax impost put onto hybrid cars as against humvees and four-wheel drives. Today the City of London has imposed a $53 tax on all heavily polluting vehicles in central London in a bid to halt the slide to catastrophic climate change. I ask: will the Australian government set a lead here by reviewing the list of cars available to members of parliament so that gas guzzlers are taken off that list and by reformulating the priorities so that new government fleet cars include only hybrids and fuel-efficient vehicles?