A proposal for a political fix
While there were many, many things left unresolved in the carbon price announcement, it does appear that the transport sector is in this time around. The CPRS effectively exempted transport fuel until 2015 – as Greg Combet notes in this [...]
Oscars: brickbats, bouquets & hype machine
We’ve not paid the cinematic awards season its cultural due of late, so have at it while the red carpet is still laid out. Who/what did you love or hate? Who deserves a buff golden man?
Spotlight the Spin
Our weekly (mostly) look at media spin tactics: let’s dissect the PR and propaganda that aims to blow one’s own horn, bury one’s errors, resurrect the shambling zombie corpses of well-flogged deceased equines, and ooh look! A Big Distracting Thing!
Lazy Sunday!
Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
What I really wrote to The Australian
I don’t like to be too critical of editors of letters pages in newspapers, as they receive many times more letters than they can publish, and it’s not always easy to edit a letter for length whilst remaining faithful to [...]
Climate clippings 17
These posts include a brief mention of a number of news items relating to climate change. They don’t preclude treating any of these topics at more length in a separate post. They can also serve as an open thread so [...]
Saturday Friday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Revolting: the Nihilism of Tony Abbott
During this morning’s press conference, Brown, Combet and Gillard drew on a number of justifications for a carbon price: the logic of the market itself (as with multiple references to economic efficiency), fairness, redistribution of income to low income households, [...]
Carbon price “to start in July 2012″
Fairfax reports:: Australia will set a carbon price from July 1, 2012, as an interim measure until a full emissions trading scheme can be introduced three to five years later, Prime Minister Julia Gillard says. But Ms Gillard said no [...]
Earthquake in Christchurch: Link Farm and Open thread
I can’t imagine there is anyone reading this who doesn’t know what happened yesterday. Just in case, here’s a link. There is a DFAT hotline, 1300 555 135, for enquiries about friends or family. At Hoyden about Town, Mary has [...]
A Reminder: LP Comments Policy
By LP Administrator on February 26, 2011
It’s a while since we did a formal reminder of its existence. If you have not already read our Comments Policy, please do so.
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