House debates Questions without Notice

Climate Change

Tuesday, 11 September 2007 House of Representatives

Peter Garrett

Peter Garrett Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Heritage

2:48 pm

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the statement of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of 19 April that an aspirational target—and I quote:

… is code for a political stunt. An aspirational target is not a real target at all.

I also refer to the statement of the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources of 2 April, when he likened aspirational goals to—and I quote:

... New Year’s resolutions ... which we know we can’t meet.

Does the Prime Minister agree with the foreign minister and the environment minis-ter about the value of aspirational targets?

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