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As the Prime Minister announces his Carbon Challenge to the nation he is forced to defend his governments stance against Chinas carbon omissions. To divert a diplomatic incident and potentially risk the governments lucrative coal exports to China, the PM...

from YouTube on Thu, Sep 25 2008

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