The first post-carbon tax announcement poll from Nielsen, presumably conducted between Thursday to Saturday from a sample of 1400, has the Coalition’s lead out from 59-41 to 61-39, writes William Bowe.
July, 2011
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Chilean students take control of their schools to protest for a better education
Underneath the ashes of the exploding volcano, Chilean students are on strike. Paul Kearney heads to a school in Chile, where students have taken control and are cooking their meals in the canteen, refusing to leave.
An Orwellian climate: carbon price and the atmosphere
Global emission reduction targets — ranging from Germany’s 40% aim relative to 1990 to Australia’s 5% aim relative to 2000 — would still allow global temperatures to rise to three or four degrees later in the century, driving a major shift in climate zones, writes Andrew Glikson.
Morning Market Report: Bernanke cools US markets
Bernanke cooled talk of any near term stimulus measures by saying there are no immediate plans for another rounding of quantitative easing.
Bartholomeusz: BHP’s gas play ticks all the boxes
A company such as BHP, with its vast balance sheet and cash flows, is able to accelerate development.
Mayne: it’s time for Rupert Murdoch to go
Rupert Murdoch has totally built News Corp around a culture of encouraging mischief making and dodgy journalism. He rewards and promotes questionable characters, which makes him utterly unable to fix a scandal around unethical conduct.
The consequences of repealing a carbon price
Repealing a carbon price will come with some complications, and not just for a government.
Israel’s leaders have more doubts about democracy
It’s reported today that, as expected, a range of Israeli civil rights organisation’s will file legal challenges against that country’s new law against boycotts.
2GB pulls pin on anti-carbon tax rally live broadcast
Sydney radio station 2GB have been forced into an humiliating backflip on its vociferous anti-carbon tax campaign, declaring that a planned outside broadcast at next month’s carbon tax rally will not go ahead.
@BigHarto: some direction here as the London clusterf*ck unfolds
We can be thankful that here in Australia we have been spared daring social experiments like female CEOs, writes @BigHarto.
Sideshow Alley: A pair of black court shoes
Each week we’ll nominate the latest offerings to the service of dumbing down politics by journalists and/or politicians and at the end of each month we’ll be asking Lindsay Tanner to write through his pick of the best/worst example.
New research brings focus back to forests, vegetation in climate debate
Research released today in an article published in Science has shown that natural forests are far more significant carbon sinks that previously thought, writes Crikey naturalist Lionel Elmore.
The rules of the game for media regulation
It pays to be careful when it comes to regulating the media. Here are some tips for the recent entrants in the game of “Regulate the Press”.
The difference between need for News inquiries in UK v Oz
There are inconsistencies in the many and varied calls for inquiries into Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.
‘Most of Australia’ can expect more than 50 degrees by end of century
If all the commitments made by governments around the world to reduce greenhouse gas were honoured, and that is all, then temperatures by 2100 would likely be about four degrees warmer than 1900, writes David Spratt, climate change analyst and author of Climate Code Red.
Quiggin: the average household will barely notice carbon tax
It follows that, although the carbon tax will have a significant impact on our aggregate emissions of CO2, mainly through its impact on electricity generation and energy use by business, the average household will barely notice it, writes John Quiggin, an ARC Federation Fellow in Economics and Political Science at the University of Queensland.
It’s not a carbon tax, it’s a carbonanza!
Crikey readers have their say.
Daily Proposition: The meat-eaters guide to tofu
Meat eaters fear tofu. But the almost tasteless prism of healthiness, high in protein and low in salt and cholesterol, can be spiced up with some saucy additions to help satisfy unhealthy urges, says Andrew Duffy.
Media briefs: Life in Canberra … mag circulation wars … Murdoch on Murdoch …
In today’s Media Briefs: Melbourne property mag wars … first post News of the World Murdoch interview … Phone hacking prompts Australian debate over Murdoch’s power … and more …
Political snippets: Gillard is no Thatcher
And there was I earlier in the week speculating that Julia Gillard was showing some Thatcher like strength. How wrong could I be.
Video of the Day: The Adventures of Harry Pawter
Have you ever longed to see the first seven Harry Potter movies performed, by cats, in one minute? No, neither have we, but now you mention it …
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Harto’s days at the cricket. While News Limited chief John Hartigan has been making headlines assuring his staff and the rest of the Australian public nobody is hacking phones here, Hartigan was quietly appointed to a cushy and privileged post on the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust board. While Hartigan was denying conservative leanings at […]
Crikey Says: Perspective
Lots of talk about carbon this week. Not much about global warming, though.
