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By Kim on July 25, 2011
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.
Posted in Advertising, Climate change, Featured | Tagged ads, australian trade and industry alliance, business, carbon price, climate change policy, get carbon policy right, industry, Peter Martin, roger jones |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 31, 2010
The Coalition campaign has less money in the coffers than Labor, and if past indications are any guide, they’ll be holding back on their advertising spend for a blitz in the final ten days or so. It’s worth gazing into [...]
Posted in Advertising, Climate change, federal election 2010 | Tagged Anna Bligh, carbon price, carbon tax, climate change policy, cprs, Department of Climate Change, election ads, electricity tarriffs, ets, Federal Election 2010, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, modelling, Penny Wong, price signals, privatisation, scare campaign, tax, Tony Abbott, Water, water policy |
By Guest Poster on July 30, 2010
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]
Posted in Climate change, federal election 2010 | Tagged Climate change, climate change policy, CPD, Fiona Armstrong, Julia Gillard, The Greens, Thinking Points, Tony Abbott |
By Kim on July 30, 2010
You can watch the interchange between Penny Wong and Greg Hunt on the 7.30 Report last night on climate change policy here. I didn’t find it very edifying.
Posted in Climate change, federal election 2010, Film, TV, Video etc | Tagged 7 30 Report, Climate change, climate change policy, debate, Federal Election 2010, Greg Hunt, Penny Wong, Video, youtube |
By Guest Poster on July 27, 2010
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s upcoming collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next [...]
Posted in Climate change, federal election 2010, Policy | Tagged carbon price, climate change policy, CPD, Federal Election 2010, Ian McAuley, Julia Gillard, Thinking Points |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 15, 2010
Writing in today’s Fin, Laura Tingle, who’s normally very well informed, reports on work being done in the Department of Climate Change on a new version of the ETS, this time based on consumption not production. The idea is that [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Energy, Federal Elections, Markets, NSW Government, Policy, Politics | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, Bruce Hawker, carbon price, carbon tax, Climate change, climate change denialism, climate change policy, consumption, consumption based ets, Copenhagen, cprs, Department of Climate Change, direct action, ets, Federal Election 2010, Garnaut, graham richardson, Karl Bitar, Kevin Rudd, Labor leadership, labor party, Laura Tingle, Mark Arbib, market based mechanisms, NSW Labor, NSW Right, Penny Wong, Polls, production, rent seeking, The Greens, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 19, 2010
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has given a speech in Adelaide at the first forum designed to address the impact of climate change on Australia’s coasts. This is part of a broader programme of adaptation planning, and this particular meeting [...]
Posted in Climate change | Tagged Climate change, climate change denialism, climate change policy, coastal development, coasts, coasts and climate change counciul, IPCC, Penny Wong, report, Tim Flannery |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 18, 2010
Last night on Lateline, Ross Garnaut pointed out to an apparently taken aback Tony Jones that 57% support for the ETS – as a major reform – was actually extremely impressive. Today in New Matilda, Ben Eltham rightly says that [...]
Posted in International, Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged Ben Eltham, climate change policy, Copenhagen, emissions targets, international commitments, Liberal moderates, Liberal Party, Media, New Matilda, political narrative, Polls, Ross Garnaut, Sustainability Institute, The Economist, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 15, 2010
Tony Abbott’s second policy release since becoming leader also carries the ‘direct action’ badge – the underwhelming ‘plan’ to institute local boards for public hospitals in Queensland and New South Wales mirrors the Coalition’s climate change policy in highlighting this [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Health, Howardia, NSW Government, Polls, Queensland | Tagged climate change policy, direct action, election themes, Federal Election 2010, Health, health policy, hospitals, local boards, messaging, new south wales, Peter Dutton, political communication, polling, public hospitals, Queensland, Rudd government, state Labor government |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 11, 2010
Bernard Keane in today’s Crikey email:
Posted in Climate change, Culture, Education, Politics, Sociology | Tagged bernard keane, climate change policy, Culture Wars, education revolution, federalism, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, managerialism, myschool, Paul Keating, political culture, political sociology, Politics, roof insulation, Rudd government, spin, state labor, stimulus, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 8, 2010
Former Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull spoke in the House of Representatives today, in debate on the reintroduced CPRS bills. Bernard Keane has a full wrap at The Stump. From Keane’s coverage, it appears that Turnbull devoted most of his time [...]
Posted in Climate change, Politics | Tagged Climate change, climate change policy, cprs, ets, Malcolm Turnbull, parliament, Speech, Tony Abbott |
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