Why would Malcolm Turnbull praise Kevin Rudd for signing Kyoto?

But that's what he did in a speech at the National Press Club, as reported in the Herald Sun.

Mr Turnbull's speech coincided with the first anniversary of Labor's election win over the previous coalition government, which held power under John Howard for more than 11 years.

Mr Turnbull praised Mr Rudd for making a national apology to indigenous people and for ratifying the Kyoto protocol on climate change.

Odd that Malcolm Turnbull thinks it right to praise someone for an empty political gesture which achieved nothing.

Read it here.