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By Mark Bahnisch on January 21, 2010
The Australian Greens have written to the Prime Minister suggesting Ross Garnaut’s interim proposal on carbon trading as a mode of breaking the deadlock on the CPRS legislation. Details are here. On SBS news tonight, Kevin Rudd stated he was [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Elections, Energy, Markets, Politics | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, Climate change, climate change policy, cprs, double dissolution, ets, Federal Election 2010, greens, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Malcolm Turnbull, Ross Garnaut, Senator Fielding, Senator Xenophon |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 22, 2009
As I observed in an earlier post, the instant response from Australian industry and business groups to the Copenhagen schemozzle was to call for a delay of the CPRS or yet more handouts in the guise of compensation. They’re unlikely [...]
Posted in Climate change, Elections, International, Policy, Politics | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, business, Climate change, Coalition, cprs, domestic politics, election, ets, industry, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, polluters, Rudd government, Senate, The Greens |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 9, 2009
On Saturday night, I summed up the Higgins and Bradfield by-elections: The final verdict – the whole thing is probably a bit of a side show. The by-election results did, of course, lead to a particularly risible bit of Newspoll [...]
Posted in By-elections, Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged ALP, analysis, Antony Green, Australian Greens, Barnaby Joyce, battlers, Bradfield by-election, Climate change, Coalition, Dennis Shanahan, electoral strategy, Higgins by-election, John Howard, Liberal Party, Newspoll, political sociology, possum, psephology, public opinion, The Greens, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 4, 2009
Tomorrow sees voters in Peter Costello’s old seat of Higgins (and Brendan Nelson’s seat of Bradfield) go to the polls. Labor is not running in either by-election. That seemed like an arguably justifiable decision at the time nominations closed, but [...]
Posted in By-elections, Politics | Tagged ALP, Anthony Albanese, Antony Green, Australian Greens, Bradfield by-election, brendan nelson, Climate change, Clive Hamilton, cprs, ets, Higgins by-election, Hugo Young, kelly o'dwyer, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, Malcom Turnbull, New Matilda, Peter Costello, Rebekka Power, Rudd government, The Greens, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 24, 2009
The Coalition are continuing their marathon climate change/leadership party room meeting after question time today. Clearly, agreement couldn’t be reached within the scheduled four hours. That’s significant in itself. In developments so far, Andrew Robb has jumped ship, reports Bernard [...]
Posted in Climate change, Disasters, Howardia, Media, Policy, Politics | Tagged Andrew Robb, Australian Greens, Ben Eltham, bernard keane, Christine Milne, Climate change, climate change policy, coalition amendments, cprs, Crikey, ets, greens, Greens Blog, Ian Macfarlane, Kevin Andrews, Kevin Rudd, legislation, liberal leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, New Matilda, Penny Wong, Peter Martin |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 9, 2009
Former Australian Democrats Senator Andrew Bartlett has announced he will be contesting the federal seat of Brisbane for The Greens. That’s my local electorate, and I’m looking forward to an interesting contest! Antony Green has much more. He points out [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Politics | Tagged andrew bartlett, Antony Green, Arch Bevis, Australian Democrats, Australian Greens, Brisbane, candidates, Federal Election 2010, Ingrid Tall, Labor, liberals, LNP, Queensland politics, Sexuality, Teresa Gambaro, The Greens |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 29, 2009
My previous post on Clive Hamilton’s selection as The Greens’ candidate in the Higgins by-election has sparked a thread largely devoted to Hamilton’s views and suitability as a candidate, rather than the party’s electoral chances, or indeed, the strategy of [...]
Posted in By-elections | Tagged Antony Green, Australian Greens, By-elections, Clive Hamilton, Higgins, Higgins by-election, Liberal Party |
By dk.au on October 27, 2009
Today’s Fin led with the news that the upturn in consumer spending has put pressure on the market in RECs, whose price is a kind of scoreboard for the renewable industry cage match initiated under the Howard Government. Rudd’s reforms, [...]
Posted in Climate change, Energy, Environment, Markets | Tagged Australian Greens, carbon pollution reduction scheme, coastal vulnerability, cprs, Renewable Energy Target scheme, RET |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 26, 2009
The Greens are running Clive Hamilton in Higgins. As Andrew Norton observes, Hamilton criticising seems to be a politically ecumenical practice in the blogosphere. Guy Rundle puts a contrary view. I’m by no means enamoured of some of the ideas [...]
Posted in By-elections | Tagged Andrew Norton, Australian Greens, by-election, candidates, Climate change, climate change policy, Clive Hamilton, Guy Beres, Guy Rundle, Higgins, Higgins by-election, Liberal Party, Peter Costello, The Greens |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 13, 2009
I haven’t had a chance to look at the amendments The Greens are putting forward to the emissions trading scheme bills. But Ben Eltham has, and his verdict has been published at New Matilda: As the climate change debate rumbles [...]
Posted in Climate change | Tagged amendments, Australian Greens, Ben Eltham, Bob Brown, Climate change, climate change policy, cprs, Emissions trading scheme, Kevin Rudd, New Matilda, Penny Wong, Policy, Senate, The Greens |
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