Alan Eggleston (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

We have mentioned the parrot because we know that that is all you can latch on to. This government’s record on the environment is so impeccable, so strong, that all you poor people on the other side can do is latch on to the poor little orange-bellied parrot.

When it comes to the question of climate change, the Howard government has an outstanding record by world standards. We are meeting our Kyoto targets, even though we regard the Kyoto agreement as a hollow agreement, a meaningless agreement, which will do almost nothing to reduce climate change problems secondary to greenhouse. The Kyoto agreement is something that we are not signing, but we are meeting its targets, and we have a very fine record in that area. Australia, under the Howard government, was the first and only government in the world at that stage to establish a national greenhouse office.