Tony Jones speaks with Senator Ian Campbell
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 25/10/2006
Reporter: Tony Jones
Transcript: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2006/s1773739.htm
Hi Windows Video: http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200610/r112838_354002.asx

Extract:

IAN CAMPBELL, ENVIRONMENT MINISTER: "My strong conviction has been, for a couple of years now, that Australia should be and will be the leader in solar technologies in the world. That is already happening, although people on the Left of politics keep putting down our achievements. You can't beat going to Xen Zhen Province and seeing the largest solar photovoltaic installation in Asia, built using and solar cells made at Homebush by BP Solar, and installed by an Australian company in China.
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The verdict is well and truly in; for anyone who has not seen Al Gore talking about this in "An Inconvenient Truth" yet... guess what?

Greenland is melting very fast, so is the Arctic ice shelf and large chunks of Antarctica are breaking off and melting too.

So... what to do about it?

One way to make a positive difference is to use solar power instead of grid electricity to recharge batteries to power our electronics equipment.

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