At a press conference, embattled Gillard struggles to defend the climate swindle, and journalists actually ask some good questions

Australia - Transcript of joint press conference, Canberra, 15 june 2011

[Gillard] we can’t afford to be left behind as other nations act and as international negotiations move forward.

To give you one example of the kind of false claims we see about international actions, in the Parliament just a couple of weeks ago both Julie Bishop and Joe Hockey suggested in question time that Russia, Japan, the United States and Canada had advised that they would not join a second round of carbon cuts under the Kyoto Protocol. That was put in Question Time to suggest that the world isn’t acting, whereas the truth is those countries have said they won’t sign up because they want an even stronger global outcome and each of them is acting on climate change.
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Can I conclude by saying there’s another myth out there as well, and that myth is that people, tradespeople, in our nation have something to fear from pricing carbon.
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JOURNALIST: Mr Combet, on the fact sheets you’ve released today, there’s some pretty dire warnings in here for Melbourne, for example, (inaudible) facing 35 per cent less water going into the catchment, tripling the number of extreme hot days and specifically at Mount Hotham the ski season to go from 120 days to just 20 – these are your dire warnings and the reason you say we need to do, have a carbon price and have action. If you have the carbon price, if you have action, how will those forecasts change, if you act, how those numbers will change?
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JOURNALIST: (inaudible) really been recently been quite a misleading impression that our actions will, for example, mitigate the effects on the Barrier Reef and areas like this. It’s been the implication in a lot of what’s been said when, as you say, it’s not really the fact.
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JOURNALIST: To take the Prime Minister’s analogy a step further though, Prime Minister, what you’re saying is that Australia doesn’t just have to stop smoking for there to be benefits, the world has to stop smoking and for all of the things you say that the rest of the world is doing, why do emissions continue to grow? Can you tell us when they’ll start to reverse?
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JOURNALIST: Sorry, just back on this fact sheet - why is there no international comparison of carbon prices here, seeing that this is about pricing carbon? What is the average carbon price internationally and is your timetable for announcing a carbon price still the end of this month or the beginning of the next?
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JOURNALIST: Isn’t it a fact that Australia can’t give investors any certainty while the Opposition is promising to repeal your carbon tax?

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Essential Research also has Gillard with her worst approval ratings yet - 34 per cent approve and 54 disapprove.

And on her signature issue, just 50 per cent of the public now think humans are responsible for global warming.

She’s gone.