AUSTRALIA: Global warming becomes a hot election issue
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Global warming is shaping up as a key issue to determine votes in Australia's national election at the end of the year. That's why "climate change" appeared for the first time on Tuesday in the annual budget speech by Australia's Treasurer, Peter Costello. The Howard Government has moved from being a climate change sceptic to the Prime Minister describing himself as a "climate change" realist. According to Dr Clive Hamilton, the executive director of the think tank, The Australia Institute, the Government is scrambling to change its image after a decade of denial about global warming.
Presenter: Graeme Dobell
Speakers: Dr Clive Hamilton, executive director of the Australia Institute, and author of "Scorcher - the dirty politics of climate change."
