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from the ABC …..

PM tight-lipped on climate change ads

The Prime Minister has dodged questions about whether a new government advertising campaign on climate change is planned.

Labor insists the Government intends sending all eight million households in Australia a taxpayer-funded, full-colour brochure on climate change with a personal cover note from John Howard.

In Question Time this afternoon, Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd suggested to Mr Howard the campaign is called "climate clever".

"Given that the Prime Minister and his government are self confessed climate change sceptics, isn't this campaign just a little too clever by half?" he said.

But the Prime Minister hit back.

"I can assure the Leader of the Opposition that it won't be called 'double standards out of hypocrisy'," he said.

puff the magic rattus

 

I could not think of anybody less qualified or less interested in climate change than our PM to be advising 8 million households that he is not going to let global warming stuff up the economy. Apart from perhaps Ian Macfarlane. 

heat under his butt?

PM rejects Labor 'hubris' on climate change ads

The Federal Opposition has accused the Prime Minister of trying to avoid accountability by refusing to answer questions about a Government advertising campaign on climate change.

But John Howard has hit back, accusing the Opposition of arrogance.

Labor has questioned Mr Howard for four days about plans for a campaign on climate change.

Late this afternoon, he said money was allocated in the Budget and he did not deny that material has been prepared.

"If particular material is produced on such an important topic, I would expect it to be practical, informative and helpful to the wider community, and it remains the case that no material has yet been approved for distribution," he said.

Labor's environment spokesman Peter Garrett demanded to know why it took so long.

rattled rattus

In his latest parliamentary battle with Rudd, our glorious UnAustralian, Rattus Climatechangiolus, looked somewhat frazzled at the edges, shaken in his quicksands and red in the face like an overcooked beetroot, bordering on apoplexy like a psychopath caught with his pants down — all trying to fudge some more the fudges that are coming home to roost, with a few feather and tar truths...

A pleasant sight to see for the gallery of Rattus-haters...