Mark Butler (Port Adelaide, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for the Environment. In its latest report on environmental indicators, the OECD last year confirmed Australia's place as the largest per capita producer of greenhouse gas emissions in the OECD. Yet in an interview on the BBC in the last couple of weeks, the Treasurer described such an assertion as 'absolutely ridiculous' and a 'falsehood'. Minister, who is right—the OECD or the Treasurer?

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