Qld: Climate change policy fails tourism industry: Keech

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: May 22, 2007 | Copyright information

AAP General News (Australia)
05-22-2007
Qld: Climate change policy fails tourism industry: Keech

By Christine Flatley, Tourism Writer

BRISBANE, May 22 AAP - Prime Minister John Howard risks tarnishing Australia's reputation
as a natural tourism destination by failing to urgently address climate change, Queensland
Minister for Tourism Margaret Keech says.

Mrs Keech told state parliament today that climate change is the greatest challenge
facing the $18 billion-a-year Queensland tourism industry, and that the federal government
has let the industry down by failing to earmark adequate funds ...

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