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Roundtable: an Abbott government

By Mark Bahnisch on July 29, 2010

In a post at The ABC’s Drumroll, and in comments on the link thread here, I’ve been critical of the fact that a concentration on the horse race, on internal ALP dramas, and Julia Gillard’s political persona has all allowed [...]

Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged campaign, Coalition, Government, Policy, roundtable, strategy, Tony Abbott | 96 Responses

Where next for Tasmania?

By Mark Bahnisch on March 22, 2010

I was interested to hear Tasmanian Greens leader Nick McKim comment on the 7.30 Report that neither Will Hodgman nor David Bartlett had yet contacted him. I linked in an earlier post to an article reviewing the precedents for a [...]

Posted in Politics, State/Territory Elections | Tagged agreement, ALP, arrangement, confidence motion, David Bartlett, election results, Government, Hare Clark, Labor, Liberal Party, liberals, negotiations, Nick McKim, Richard Farmer, supply, Tasmanian election 2010, Tasmanian politics, The Greens, Westminster system, Will Hodgman | 65 Responses

Department of Climate Policy Cave-ins and Keeping Things Private

By dk.au on February 2, 2009

As Anna Rose points out, The Dept of Climate Change has made an inauspicious start to the year, proposing to remove the public disclosure of Corporate level GHG figures. Their concern is as follows: The label ‘energy production’ applies to [...]

Posted in Climate change, Government, Law, Politics | Tagged carbon pollution reduction scheme, cprs, DCC, Department of Climate Change, Government, National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Bill, NGER, reporting | 11 Responses

Rethinking the politics of the White Paper: CPRS as Governance Failure

By dk.au on December 19, 2008

So GetUp has raised $93 000 in just 24 hours to get the Spot the Difference ad (( These interviews and this ad make for interesting viewing a year on )) on the air during the boxing day test, suggesting [...]

Posted in Activism, Climate change, Economics, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Government, History, Howardia, International, Law, Life, Markets, Policy, Politics | Tagged Climate change, cprs, denialism, emissions reductions, emo, global warming, Government, governmentality, Karl Polanyi, Markets, white paper | 28 Responses

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