Peter Garrett (Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Heritage) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, did a taxpayer funded opinion poll in 2003, which has not been publicly released, find that four per cent of Australians believed that climate was ‘a top-of-the-mind issue’? Did a similar secret taxpayer funded poll in 2006 find that figure had dramatically increased to 30 per cent, and that 88 per cent believed climate change was an important political issue? Will the Prime Minister confirm the existence of this taxpayer funded polling? Isn’t it the case that the only thing the Prime Minister is concerned about is the change in political climate, not climate change itself?

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