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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 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 January 5, 2010
I made a comment on my previous post that the result (or lack of result) from COP is likely to be both discouraging to many activists and to provoke rethinking about strategy and tactics. In order to stimulate discussion about [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Developing world, International | Tagged Activism, Climate change, climate change policy, Copenhagen, developing countries, localism, Open Democracy, Rupert Read |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 3, 2010
Open Democracy has asked a range of its contributors to answer the following questions: A volcanic decade in global politics ends amid deep unease about the world’s ability to rise to key 21st-century challenges. openDemocracy writers draw breath and look [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Climate change, Developing world, Economics, Environment, International, Markets, Politics, Security, Sociology, Terrorism, The Web, War | Tagged agriculture, Authoritarianism, barack obama, China, civil liberties, Climate change, conflict resolution, Copenhagen, decade, democratisation, Developing world, development, ecology, end of history, food security, GFC, global financial crisis, global politics, globalisation, human rights, humanitarianism, inequality, international law, Madagascar, Mark Lynas, millennium goals, neo-liberalism, Open Democracy, peacekeeping, retrospective, statism, Terrorism, torture, UN, USA, War, world economy |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 22, 2009
A predictable response to the Copenhagen fail has been calls from Australian business for *even more* ‘compensation’ as a condition for continued support of the Rudd government’s ETS. I’ll save the domestic politics of the Copenhagen washup for a later [...]
Posted in Climate change, International, Policy, Politics, USA | Tagged Andrew Norton, behavioural economics, business, Climate change, conservatism, Copenhagen, corporatism, cprs, ets, Glenn Greenwald, health reform, ideology, Kevin Rudd, nudge, Obama, progressives, property rights, rent seeking, social democracy, US politics, vested interests |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 22, 2009
In the wake of the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Change conference, we’re starting to see some more thoughtful analyses which go beyond the proximate causes of the imbroglio to gesture to more structural factors. Robert has already cited George [...]
Posted in Climate change, Developing world, Disasters, Economics, Energy, Environment, Imperialism, International, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, Climate change, collective action, Copenhagen, Energy, George Bush, george monbiot, Naomi Klein, oil, Open Democracy, political economy, Politics, Sociology, US, USA |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 18, 2009
Helmut is live blogging President Obama’s address to the Copenhagen climate change conference at Phronesisaical.
Posted in Blogging, Climate change | Tagged barack obama, Blogging, Climate change, conference, Copenhagen, live blogging |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 17, 2009
Matthew Knott at Crikey‘s climate change blog, Rooted, will be live blogging Kevin Rudd’s Copenhagen speech from 8pm AEST. Go here to read.
Posted in Blogging, Climate change, International, Politics | Tagged Climate change, Copenhagen, Crikey, Kevin Rudd, live blogging, liveblogging, Matthew Knott, Speech |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 28, 2009
Having talked to a few friends over the last few days who aren’t political junkies (but are more taken with politics than perhaps the average voter), I’m not at all convinced that the Liberal leadership shenanigans are of anywhere near [...]
Posted in Climate change, Howardia, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Andrew Robb, Annabel Crabb, Axel bruns, Ben Eltham, bernard keane, Blogging, blogs, Canberra, Climate change, climate change denialism, commentariat, Copenhagen, cprs, Crikey, cultural studies, ets, facebook, future of journalism, future of media, Gatewatching, hyperlinks, Imre Salusinszky, journalists, Larvatus prodeo, Lateline, Laura Tingle, legacy media, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, link economy, links, Malcolm Turnbull, Media, media discourses, nathan rees, New Matilda, new media, Nick Minchin, Peter Van Onselen, public, public opinion, publics, Rudd government, social media, social sharing, Sociology, spill, Stephen Fenely, tweeting, twitter |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 20, 2009
In the wake of his avowal of climate change denialism on Four Corners, Nick Minchin has spent the second last week of the Parliamentary year stoking the fires of Coalition opposition to the CPRS. Tony Abbott, previously a ‘skeptic’ who [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Energy, Howardia, Immigration, Politics | Tagged asylum seekers, Barnaby Joyce, boat people, brown jobs, climate change policy, Coal industry, Copenhagen, cprs, denialism, emissions trading legislation, employment, green jobs, John Howard, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Nationals, Nick Minchin, Penny Wong, polling, refugees, Rudd government, Tony Abbott |
By Guest Poster on October 6, 2009
Dr Richard Denniss from The Australia Institute writing in today’s Crikey [reproduced with permission]: The Senate debate about the CPRS is getting close, and with views as diverse as those of Steve Fielding and Bob Brown it’s likely to be [...]
Posted in Climate change, International | Tagged Australia, Australia Institute, Climate change, climate change policy, Copenhagen, cprs, emissions, emissions trading, Malcolm Turnbull, Politics, Richard Denniss |
The media, social media and the Liberal thrills and spills
By Mark Bahnisch on November 28, 2009
Having talked to a few friends over the last few days who aren’t political junkies (but are more taken with politics than perhaps the average voter), I’m not at all convinced that the Liberal leadership shenanigans are of anywhere near [...]
Posted in Climate change, Howardia, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Andrew Robb, Annabel Crabb, Axel bruns, Ben Eltham, bernard keane, Blogging, blogs, Canberra, Climate change, climate change denialism, commentariat, Copenhagen, cprs, Crikey, cultural studies, ets, facebook, future of journalism, future of media, Gatewatching, hyperlinks, Imre Salusinszky, journalists, Larvatus prodeo, Lateline, Laura Tingle, legacy media, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, link economy, links, Malcolm Turnbull, Media, media discourses, nathan rees, New Matilda, new media, Nick Minchin, Peter Van Onselen, public, public opinion, publics, Rudd government, social media, social sharing, Sociology, spill, Stephen Fenely, tweeting, twitter | 27 Responses