Penny Wong the climate science sceptic
Dr Richard Denniss from The Australia Institute writing in today’s Crikey [reproduced with permission]: Like most parliamentarians, Penny Wong, the Minister for Climate Change, is a climate sceptic. Of course she prefers to use that term to describe those who [...]
Fair go?
From The Australia Institute’s ‘Between the Lines’: The Australia Institute has recommended that the unemployment benefit be increased in line with community standards, which basically means providing for the unemployed as we do our pensioners and disabled. Another way of [...]
Gifts, value and 'futile' [State] emissions reductions
Sociologists and anthropologists have long been fascinated by the place of gift giving and reciprocity in constituting communities. Drawing on ethnographic research in the Pacific, Mauss argued against the idea that gifts are ‘free’ in the political economic sense of [...]
Emissions Caps as (Social) Floors
I awoke to Fran Kelly struggling to elicit Richard Denniss’ point about an emissions cap acting as an implicit floor this morning. (Update: TAI Report) Even asking him the same set of questions twice didn’t seem to help. You need [...]
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