Rudd and Wong can’t take all the credit for killing the ETS: every news outlet that ran dodgy polluter-commissioned modelling and op-eds from climate denialists and wingnuts can also take a bow.
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Failed CPRS makes the headlines
The failed CPRS is in the news, but so is a certain chair sniffing disgraced pollie from WA. And the silver screen suffers from a severe case of Bieber fever.
Crikey Says: Rudd lacks the courage for serious reform
Two years ago, Kevin Rudd correctly observed that there was no point being in power unless power was used to achieve change. So, why does the PM search for reasons not to reform?
Rudd throws ETS in the “too hard” basket
Daily media wrap: Kevin Rudd is giving up on what he once described as “the greatest moral challenge of our time” — but is Australia’s attention span really so short? Crikey hasn’t forgotten, and neither has the world’s media.
Rudd has done nothing to prevent climate change
As Kevin Rudd’s first term as PM comes to an end, let’s remind ourselves of Kevin07 and his failed big green promises. Remember those? asks former climate change adviser to Tony Blair, Nick Rowley.
Farewell to the Libs green credentials
I fear that without Malcolm Turnbull the Liberals will be stuck for longer in the far right and anti-environmental groove John Howard created for them, even if he argued for a rarely useless policy, writes Tim Hollo.
Turnbull: So long, farewell, I gave it all my might
Malcolm Turnbull pens his own farewell letter, lamenting the failure of the Liberals to pass the ETS but says he will not be leaving politics a bitter man.
Climate scientist: nuclear power can save us
NASA scientist James Hansen says that cap-and-trade schemes are “hokey” and will never be accepted by developing countries. Only a carbon tax and the use of nuclear power will work to battle climate change.
Carbon leakage: how a carbon price would fit into big polluters’ accounts
The cost of carbon permits under the CPRS for our biggest polluters sounds a lot — until you see what they pick up or lose on the changing Aussie dollar.
Carbon leakage: reason for hand-outs or corporate hot air?
“Carbon leakage” is at the heart of the Federal Government’s beleaguered CPRS — and yet it remains an unproven theory across the globe.
Garrett loses insulation et al to Rudd’s Mr Fixit
Peter Garrett got the boot from the home insulation program so that Kevin Rudd’s Mr Fix It a.k.a Greg Combet could take over. Can Combet clean up in the same way he did with the CPRS?
Business case on ETS falling away post-Copenhagen
With Tony Abbott arguing for a tax-free direct action plan, Kevin Rudd needs business to pack his economic model. But the initial support for an ETS is falling away, reports Jason Whittaker and Matthew Knott.
Can direct action work? The British experience
If we chuck in the idea of a market mechanism for reducing carbon emissions, we need to think seriously about how to minimise the problems of direct action.
Paul Kelly: How the govt deny, spin and divert attention from the ETS
It’s rare for a first term government to struggle with implementing one of their first major policies, in the way that the ETS has become, writes Paul Kelly. Labor seem unable to champion it, yet won’t abandon it.
David Marr: Lonely Turnbull has no political certainty
Peter Garrett copped the wrath of parliament yesterday, but it was also Malcolm Turnbull’s big day as he crossed the floor to vote for the ETS. The quiet Turnbull seemed to have lost his statesman’s stance, writes David Marr.
Paul Kelly: Political pressure cooks Rudd
Labor is at a crossroads, after the fiasco of Copenhagen and PM Kevin Rudd’s inability to successfully argue his ETS policy. The question now is: what does Rudd do next? asks Paul Kelly.
Australia’s climate mess: arguing over crap policies
Realistically, both Rudd’s ETS and Abbott’s ERF climate policies are far more alike than either would care to admit. Quit bickering over details and bring in a carbon price to get the ball rolling, writes Richard Denniss.
Gittins: Just because you don’t understand it, doesn’t mean the ETS is bad
Remember the GST scare campaign? We’re seeing a similar thing now with Rudd’s ETS and Abbott’s alternative plan is just puffery. Don’t let fear of change drive us, writes Ross Gittins.
Turnbull: dealing blows or big blow-hard?
Malcolm Turnbull laid into Tony Abbott’s climate change policy plan in a speech to Parliament yesterday. But did he deal a damaging blow to his Abbott’s scheme, or come off looking like a sore loser? How the pundits saw it.
Turnbull takes aim at Abbott’s climate plan
Malcolm Turnbull has demolished Tony Abbott’s climate action plan in a long speech to Parliament, putting the case for the government’s CPRS far more eloquently and coherently than Kevin Rudd ever has, reports Bernard Keane.
Crikey Clarifier: Rudd versus Abbott on climate change: what’s the difference?
So what is on offer from the Government and the Opposition on climate change, and where does the truth lie? Andrew Macintosh explains all the troublesome acronyms.
John Hewson: The grossly irresponsible climate politicking
Our pollies and media are too caught up in the colour, political point scoring and scare campaign of the climate change debate to focus on what we really need: strong policy to challenge climate change, writes ex-Liberal leader John Hewson.
Davidson: ETS stands for Environmentally Terrible Scheme
Kevin Rudd’s decision to stand by the ETS plan is both politically and environmentally flawed, argues Kenneth Davidson. We need a climate policy, not a perfect scare campaign for the Opposition.
Tax the voters or tax the polluters: which will you pick at the ballot box?
Tony Abbott’s new climate policy has shifted the political focus on the climate change debate, and his “taxing the voters” plan is going to bomb at election time. Rudd must be laughing, writes The Piping Shrike.
Kohler: Abbott’s clever climate change policy
Against all expectations, Tony Abbott and Greg Hunt have actually come up with a clever climate change policy, and certainly one that will change the debate in Australia.
