Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister now formally repudiate the industry minister’s statement in which he said, ‘I am a sceptic of the connection between emissions and climate change’?

John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

No, I will not formally repudiate it. People make different statements about different things over a period of time. I seem to remember the Leader of the Opposition a little under two years ago saying that he was not experienced enough to be the leader of the Labor Party. He now thinks that he is experienced enough to be Prime Minister.