The Federal Government is showing it's true colours, climate change is not being taken seriously by the ministers who should know better. Meanwhile the state opposition, epitomised by Philip Davis, would rather play ideological games rather than address the issue of climate change or better still, plan for a fossil fuel free future...
Age
Thursday 25/1/2007 Page: 16
By David Rood, Education Editor
ALL Australian high school students will be conveniently able to get their hands on a copy of the climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth, with the movie to be given to schools free of charge.
The controversial film, by former United States vice-president Al Gore, will be made available to all secondary schools by renewable energy company Jackgreen. Details of the distribution came as the documentary was nominated for two Oscars: best documentary feature and best original song.
The film has earned $30.3 million and is the third highest grossing documentary in cinema history.
After viewing it last year, Prime Minister John Howard said it showed "a degree of a peeved politician". The new federal Environment Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, said the film was a "very compelling dramatisation of the climate change issue" saying he had no problems with it being distributed in schools.
Education Minister Julie Bishop said it was up to each school to decide whether it used the film, but it should be made clear to students that the film did not represent the only opinion on the issue of climate change. When the film was released last September, Industry and Resource Minister Ian Macfarlane said "it's just entertainment, and really that's all it is".
Victorian opposition education spokesman Philip Davis warned the the distribution of the DVD allowed a commercial organisation to take a policy agenda and try and sell that into a captive student market.
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