Larvatus Prodeo

So GetUp has raised $93 000 in just 24 hours to get the Spot the Difference ad¹ on the air during the boxing day test, suggesting the discontent over the target announcement will crystallise into a significant force during the new year.

The only certainty that has emerged from this week is that by treating this as politics and policy as usual, Rudd has been utterly foolish. Anna Rose has an excellent summary of the scheme design itself. Anybody who thinks it should pass the Senate in its current shape is either being paid to say that, living in an unreality so loopy that I’ll drop out and have what they’re having dude, or never thought we would be able to get organised in time to do anything about the problem. And to the latter, I say screw you emo. Go home and listen to some whinging depressed crooner and let the adults get on with it. For the purposes of this post I’ll leave aside the question of whether, according to some deft Machiavellian logic it’s in Australia’s long term interests to have a scheme so riddled with loopholes, striving for such a pathetic target as to render it worthless in driving appropriate investment and behavioural change. Continue reading ‘Rethinking the politics of the White Paper: CPRS as Governance Failure’

1. These interviews and this ad make for interesting viewing a year on [back]