Mark Butler (Port Adelaide, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to reports that President Trump is poised to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. Just before midnight last night, in response to those reports, the chair of the coalition's environment and energy committee, the member for Hughes, posted: 'It's not confirmed yet, but have the champagne on ice.' John Howard followed the United States out of Kyoto when George W Bush rejected it. So how can anyone have confidence that this government will not do exactly that with the Paris Agreement?

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