Abbott absurdities on climate change
There has been a constant stream of lies and misinformation over recent months on the impacts of carbon pricing. Here’s an example from early May of Abbott claiming that the carbon tax will make it hard for Australia to remain [...]
Domestic aviation and a carbon price
Carbon pricing and rising fuel costs might make domestic air travel more expensive, but by how much?
Assumptions underlying the CEF package
In case the acronym hasn’t stuck yet, CEF means Clean Energy Future. If I’d said “carbon tax”, no problems. In my 2009 submission to the Senate Select Committee on Climate Policy I ripped into the Rudd Government for commissioning Ross [...]
Gillard always wanted a price on carbon
Remember that the before the last election, Gillard said she would view victory as a mandate for a carbon price and promised to legislate a carbon price in the next term as part of a bold series of reforms that [...]
Why the Australian Trade and Industry Alliance ‘facts’ are not facts
A couple of links culled from the carbon price polls thread: Roger Jones and Peter Martin on the deceit behind the anti-carbon price scheme ads from the Australian Trade and Industry Alliance.
Support for carbon tax rises: Newspoll
Newspoll finds a 6% shift from opposition to support for the carbon price. It’s still disapproved by 53-36, but there’s definitely something going on.
It’s simple, really
Frustration at the nonsense purveyed on Madonna King’s program inspired me to send her an email, stating the main features of the Clean Energy Future (CEF) package in three simple points. In this post I give an expanded version so [...]
How have your (non political junkie) friends reacted to the CEF?
One of the benefits of Facebook and its lax privacy policies is that you often get to see casual acquaintances, who you don’t normally talk politics with, are reacting to things in the news. The political junkies in my social [...]
A CEF anomaly: postgraduate scholarship students
While the main thrust of the Clean Energy Future (can we call it the CEF from now on?) package seems reasonable, there was inevitably going to be a case or two that needs clarification. One such case is that of [...]
Countdown to the carbon pricing package announcement
I’m calling it the “carbon pricing package” because that’s what Julia Gillard called it in parliament yesterday. It doesn’t yet have a sexy name like the CPRS, one of the details still to be settled. We know now that the [...]
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