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 [...]
Rudd, Gillard, the CPRS and public opinion
Rudd was probably wounded by [the] failure of …the Copenhagen conference in December 2009…Gillard has also failed to understand the nature of climate denialism and the effectiveness of forces who only need to induce doubt in the science.
CPD post: CPRS’ failures killed it, not The Greens
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, [...]
Labor could turn a carbon tax into a positive
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 [...]
The carbon price we almost had
Julia Gillard once said that delay on climate change equated to denial. With Labor’s announcement of a citizen’s assembly and a climate change commission continuing to attract puzzlement at best, it’s worth observing that we already have a price on [...]
Carbon Price Now!
So, now we know. Labor has wimped out on a carbon price – either from reintroducing the CPRS, or through an interim carbon price as proposed by the Greens. Instead, we’re going to get the delaying tactics of a focus [...]
2006 called…
…and wants its climate change policy back. Rather than actually doing taking an emissions trading scheme policy to an election, we’re getting a “Citizens’ Assembly – to examine over 12 months the evidence on climate change, the case for action [...]
ACF poll finds that 45% of soft voters would be more likely to support Labor with an ETS
The Australian Conservation Foundation has commissioned polling from Auspoll on attitudes to the major parties’ climate change stance: The survey, part of Auspoll’s national omnibus of 1500 voters, found: * When asked which party leader “do you trust most to [...]
Essential Research: A pox on both your houses (and on the media)
In comments on Mr Denmore’s guest post on the interpretation of polls (particularly Newspoll) through the self-referential lens of the ‘media narrative’, I wrote: All quantitative polling tells you only so much, without asking questions about strength of voting intention, [...]
Rudd government to introduce an ETS based on consumption not production?
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 [...]
How the coup against Kevin Rudd unfolded
By Mark Bahnisch on June 25, 2010
Today’s comprehensive coverage in the Financial Review allows us to understand how the Labor leadership challenge was orchestrated. From reading a number of reports in the Fin Review today, including Laura Tingle’s, I think it’s fair to characterise it as [...]
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