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Parkinson: no easy choices, but strong case for energy action
A new report from the Grattan Institute has underlined the failure of current policies to push Australia down the path of a clean energy future Giles Parkinson, editor of RenewEconomy, reports.
Tim Flannery: the divisive Akubra-wearing palaeontologist
Tim Flannery has perhaps the most unenviable job in the country: explaining to the Australian public why they should pay for pollution before the rest of the world, writes Tom Cowie.
Australia can speak with authority at Durban climate talks
For the first time in the history of the international negotiations, Australia can speak with authority and join other nations in taking credible action, writes Erwin Jackson, deputy CEO at Climate Institute.
Carbon tax passes but blood pledge remains
Crikey media wrap: It’s taken years of debates, discussion papers and fallen leaders, but yesterday the senate passed Australia’s first carbon legislation.
Inflation: ‘skyrocketing’ versus ‘softening’ — you be the judge
Life’s hard for an Opposition when a government gets good economic news.
‘Brave’ Gillard passes carbon tax
Crikey media wrap: It may be the policy that eventually brings down the government, but there was joy in parliament yesterday as the lower house passed the controversial carbon tax bill.
Mirabella helps pass carbon tax
Crikey media wrap: Despite Tony Abbott declaring he will kill the carbon price if elected, PM Julia Gillard will today get Australia’s first significant policy to cut carbon emissions passed through parliament.
Australia’s carbon tax battle: where it fits into the global war
When it comes to climate policies, the Left and Right parties in Australia have adopted virtually wholesale the positions taken by Left and Right parties in America, write Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus.
Abbott’s climate change Tea Party stirs in Canberra
It’s been fascinating to watch climate change emerge again as a political issue in the US, writes Giles Parkinson, of Climate Spectator.
Abbott’s lies keep mounting in the climate tax debate
In early May, Tony Abbott claimed the carbon tax will make it difficult for Australia to remain a first world economy. It is just one of many lies and Abbott’s negativity has reached farcical proportions, says Larvatus Prodeo.
Sideshow Alley: walking out and shutting up in question time
It’s typical of our national debate that on the day the prime minister introduces a historic climate policy to the parliament, the Opposition would be busy pulling out political stunts to steal some of the spotlight.
PM’s carbon bill met with empty rhetoric from opposition
Crikey media wrap: Carbon tax: it’s been the biggest issue of Julia Gillard’s prime ministership and yesterday she introduced the historic bill into parliament.
Australia’s green groups fight everything but criticism against them
Throughout 2011, Australia’s best-funded environment organisations have been united in support of the Labor government’s push to establish a carbon price. Not everyone thinks this is a good thing, writes Leigh Ewbank.
Ghosts of climate policy past haunt our Clean Energy Future
It’s an old refrain, but the closer we get to the Clean Energy Future legislation ducking and weaving its way through parliament, the more we are reminded of the ghosts of the current proposal’s stepmother, the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, writes Giles Parkinson of Climate Spectator.
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Parkinson: … or keep calm and stick with it
One of the great assumptions of the calls to invest large amounts of GDP into actions to reduce emissions, protect our natural capital, and become more resource efficient was that by saving the planet we could save the global economy.
Parkinson: why the carbon crash is good
Of all the equity and commodity prices that plunged last week in the global market carnage, the most dramatic falls came in the European and international carbon price, writes Giles Parkinson.
Abbott’s European holiday might make him hot and bothered
Tony Abbott has begun his holiday in Europe but one wonders why he chose to visit a region that has had a price on carbon since 2005 and now has the largest multi-national emissions trading scheme in the world, writes Ellen Sandell.
Galaxy: 56-44 to Coalition
The latest Galaxy federal poll echoes other recent polling, with the Coalition leading 56-44 in the two-party preferred. Meanwhile, only 37% support a carbon tax, writes William Bowe.
Carbon cops run amok in a world of spin
The carbon price “debate” shows the effects of decades of spin. “Carbon cops”, busting down your front door and scaring the kids in pursuit of unauthorised emissions, had been invented by the Coalition.
$10 million to drive fear and greed on carbon price
Multi-billion dollar vested interest groups launched their $10 million “no campaign” against a price on pollution on the weekend to fight a campaign of confusion and misinformation, writes Sophie Trevitt from the Australian Youth Climate Coalition.
Will the carbon price rule out new coal?
Despite Gillard’s carbon price plan, we still need an emissions performance standard to rule out new polluting coal power stations, writes John Hepburn.
Under pressure: leaning on lobby groups over the carbon tax
Brad Kitschke, head of the Australian Sporting Goods Association and leader of the Fair Imports Alliance, has claimed that Tony Abbott’s office effectively told him that the opposition would support his group on the GST issue if it came out against the carbon tax.
STFU, you can afford $10 a week for a carbon tax
This obscenity-strewn post by Geoff Lemon is brilliant examination of how the media has portrayed Julia Gillard’s carbon tax. We live in one of the richest countries in the world and the rise in cost of living won’t mean diddly squat, says Lemon.
