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By Robert Merkel on July 10, 2011
…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 [...]
Posted in Climate change, Energy, Environment, Policy, Politics, Transport | Tagged carbon pricing, clean energy future, Emissions trading scheme, ets |
By Brian on December 7, 2009
This guest post is by John Davidson. John is a semi-retired chemical engineer who has spent most of his life in the construction and mining industries. John has now set up his own blog. Tony Abbot has opened up the [...]
Posted in Climate change | Tagged cprs, electricity supply, emissions trading, Emissions trading scheme, ets |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 23, 2009
You really have to feel a bit sorry for Malcolm Turnbull. Any chance he had of representing himself as leading a party enlightened on the policy response to climate change is gone completely, no matter what happens in tomorrow’s party [...]
Posted in Climate change, Politics | Tagged amendments, Climate change, climate change denialism, climate change policy, coalition party room, cprs, Emissions trading scheme, ets, John Williams, Lateline, legislation, liberal leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, Nick Minchin, parliament, Penny Wong |
By Brian on November 15, 2009
The Labor Government has conceded one of the non-negotiable points in discussions over the CPRS by exempting farming from the CPRS according to reports in the Murdoch press, The Age and elsewhere. Penny Wong as the special guest on Insiders [...]
Posted in Climate change | Tagged cprs, Emissions trading scheme, National Farmers federation, National Farmers union, NFF, NFU |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 13, 2009
I haven’t had a chance to look at the amendments The Greens are putting forward to the emissions trading scheme bills. But Ben Eltham has, and his verdict has been published at New Matilda: As the climate change debate rumbles [...]
Posted in Climate change | Tagged amendments, Australian Greens, Ben Eltham, Bob Brown, Climate change, climate change policy, cprs, Emissions trading scheme, Kevin Rudd, New Matilda, Penny Wong, Policy, Senate, The Greens |
By Brian on September 2, 2009
I miss the Democrats. They often enunciated sensible public policy options. Andrew Murray in the AFR on Monday reckoned the Libs are all over the shop on political and policy options in relation to climate change. If they are going [...]
Posted in Climate change | Tagged carbon tax, Emissions trading scheme, ets |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 7, 2009
Rob recently discussed the passage of the Waxman-Markey emissions trading bill through the US House of Representatives, and there’s been much written about its impact both on global climate change negotiations and on the chances of the CPRS legislation in [...]
Posted in Economics, Energy, Media, Politics, USA | Tagged American politics, Australian Greens, Climate change, climate change denialism, cprs, Emissions trading scheme, legislation, nate silver, Senate, Steve Fielding, The Greens, us congress, US House, US Senate, Wall Street Journal, waxman-markey |
By Kim on May 5, 2009
Lots could be said about the politics of the CPRS backdown, and no doubt lots of people are saying lots. Good for The Greens? An issue for a double dissolution? Issue management a la KRudd? Greg Combet positioning himself as [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Markets, Policy | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, business, Climate change, corporatism, cprs, democracy, Emissions trading scheme, ets, Greg Combet, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Penny Wong, political theory, Rudd government, Sociology, The Greens |
By Robert Merkel on February 6, 2009
On the policy merits of the stimulus package away from the nonsense coming out of Rudd and Turnbull, there have been some interesting points raised. John Quiggin was perhaps the first to note, and the Australia Institute has expanded on [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics | Tagged Australia Institute, cprs, Emissions trading scheme, insulation, stimulus package |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 14, 2009
As another followup to recent posts on Barnaby Joyce’s egofest (driven by the Howardian egofest), Lawrence Springborg has weighed in – in the Barnaby corner: Queensland’s Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg said the comments helped highlight the faults in Labor’s scheme. [...]
Posted in Climate change, Politics | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Climate change, Coalition, cprs, Emissions trading scheme, House of Reps, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, Nationals, Queensland Nationals, seat, Senate, The Greens, white paper |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 24, 2008
Well, having opened a thread that perhaps proves that Ute Man is still out there but not actually supporting Emo Man, it behoves me, I guess, to have a bit of a say about the tenure of the Rudd government [...]
Posted in Government, Howardia, Policy, Politics | Tagged 2007 federal election, ALP, anniversary, Climate change, economic management, economic policy, Education, election day, Emissions trading scheme, first anniversary, first term, Health, infrastructure, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Paul Keating, Policy, punditariat, Rudd government, service delivery, WorkChoices |
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