By Mark Bahnisch on July 31, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Advertising, Climate change, federal election 2010 | Tagged Anna Bligh, carbon price, carbon tax, climate change policy, cprs, Department of Climate Change, election ads, electricity tarriffs, ets, Federal Election 2010, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, modelling, Penny Wong, price signals, privatisation, scare campaign, tax, Tony Abbott, Water, water policy |
By Kim on March 31, 2010
Barnaby hit the news last night with another one of his bon mots: SABRA LANE: And on the eve of the Productivity Commission handing down a report on water recovery in the Murray-Darling basin, he had this to say about [...]
Posted in Economics, Education, Politics, Water | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Catallaxy, economic stimulus, farmers, libertarianism, libertarians, murray-darling basin, pipeline, productivity commission, toilet paper, Water |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 11, 2009
Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett has declined to give Anna Bligh’s Traveston Dam the tick of approval. Bligh inherited this project from Peter Beattie, and I, and a lot of others, always thought its conception in the first place had [...]
Posted in Politics, Queensland, Water | Tagged Anna Bligh, Environment, Mary Valley, Peter Beattie, Queensland politics, South East Queensland, Traveston Dam, Water, water futures, water supply |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 26, 2008
Even if you’re not a local, you might have noticed that it’s been raining in Brisbane a lot recently. Anna Bligh’s taken advantage of fuller dams to execute a backflip on recycled water and to delay the Traveston Dam. These [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Climate change, Media, Queensland, Science, State/Territory Elections, Water | Tagged Anna Bligh, Brisbane, Climate change, dams, infrastructure, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, mary river, Nationals, Peter Beattie, queensland government, Queensland Labor, Queensland politics, recycled water, recycling, Richard Farmer, Travestock Dam, Water, water policy, water supply |
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