Australia: Rudd has flunked it on climate change: Bob Brown

AAP: The Australian Greens view the Rudd government's first budget as a big letdown. Greens leader Bob Brown said Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had "flunked" the test of climate change. "What a disappointment," Senator Brown told reporters. "This is, whatever else, not a green budget." "There's 40 times as much expenditure on defence as there is on arguably the biggest future threat to our country, which is climate change." Mr ... Read »

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