Sounds pretty good doesn’t it. Australia is going to lead the way towards the saving of our planet. Then I remember that this is the guy who wouldn’t sign the Kyoto Protocol (Australia and the USA the only major western nations not to do so). The same guy who thought global warming was a scam, and the same guy who is looking to get re-elected very soon. Did he really see the truth, or is this just greenwashing?

As I don’t live in Australia, I can only offer my best guess. I figure he is taking a page for the George W Bush handbook here. Pretend you love the earth, find an issue that seems green (biofuels from corn lets say, or hydrogen) but that by supporting will actually benefit some large corporation (the mega-farms and the oil/gas/coal companies) and then hype the shit out of it. To be fair from the video is sounds as if he is going to do more than Bush has done to date. But again I don’t know the intricate ins and outs of Australian politics so here are what some news sources are saying.

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