Energy White Paper – an overconfident document
It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Martin Ferguson personally drafted parts of the Federal Government’s new energy White Paper. It reads with the same subtext he manages to pack into just about every sentence – that you greenies have [...]
Domestic aviation and a carbon price
Carbon pricing and rising fuel costs might make domestic air travel more expensive, but by how much?
Malcolm Turnbull and reframing the Climate Change debate
Malcolm Turnbull’s speech on climate change science points the way to a better framing of the climate change and carbon price debates than we’ve seen from the Labor party.
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 [...]
Never mind the pork…
…feel the long-term trajectory. There’s already a great deal of insta-reaction to the Clean Energy Future online – you can try Climate Spectator or Crikey for some analysis if you like. Or you could start by reading the actual policy [...]
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