Agent Quijibo has said to me on multiple occassions over the years that traditional lightbulbs should be banned in favour of compact fluorescents, the government of Australia has apparently heard him.

Claiming a world first for a national government, Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull said incandescent lightbulbs would be phased out by 2010 in favour of the more fuel-efficent compact fluorescent bulbs.

He said replacing the traditional coiled filament bulbs invented by Thomas Edison in the 19th century would cut Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by four million tonnes a year by 2015.

– and as we’ve said many times before, every little bit helps.