australia will not endorse the Kyoto Protocol. "The Australian government has always said that it will not ratify the treaty ahead of the us ,' said Robert Hill, the country's environment minister. Hill claimed that the Kyoto Protocol is now non-operational, as the us has backed out. "The world has got a simple choice: president Bush or the future generations. The Australian prime minister has chosen president Bush,' asserted Bob Brown, Australian Greens senator. Australia is emitting more pollutants than ever, reveals the government's 1999 National Greenhouse Gas Inventory. Its emissions grew 1.1 per cent from 1998 levels and are now 17.4 per cent over 1990 levels