Despite Gillard’s carbon price plan, we still need an emissions performance standard to rule out new polluting coal power stations, writes John Hepburn.
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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.
Crikey Says: Crikey says: Climate Change Authority key to carbon future
One of the better aspects of the carbon price package revealed yesterday is its governance arrangements.
Carbon tax: let the games begin
Welcome to Gillard’s Clean Energy Future, a world where carbon has a price ($23 a tonne) and both big polluters and Joe Blow citizen will be compensated for nearly all of the rising costs that carbon price will cause.
Garnaut: ‘This is a strong climate change policy package’
Professor Ross Garnaut has described Labor’s carbon price package a “strong climate change policy” in a statement that contrasts markedly with his assessment of the CPRS.
Carbon tax: key changes reflect the Greens, Garnaut
There are some key changes from Rudd’s CPRS that reflect both the influence of the Greens and Ross Garnaut in its development.
Carbon tax: the policy and the politics
This is a better package than the CPRS it is so closely modelled on, but not by a lot. It’s certainly as voter-friendly a policy as pricing carbon was ever going to be.
Carbon tax: Gillard’s ‘Clean Energy Future’ at a glance
The government has announced its “Clean Energy Future” package to commence from July 1, 2012. These are the details at a glance.
Parkinson: carbon chaos in Canberra
There is good reason why the government did not release the details of its carbon pricing package before the weekend, writes Giles Parkinson, of Climate Spectator.
Crikey Says: Your Sunday survival kit
First of all, you’re going to need a check list. And bacon. Plenty of bacon.
Your survival guide to the carbon price apocalypse
With rentseekers roaming the political landscape seeking their pound of flesh, there’s a few handy survival tips for assessing a carbon pricing scheme.
No day of rest for the carbon price
Crikey media wrap: The carbon price is being given its own day of worship, with PM Gillard announcing the full details of the policy at midday this Sunday.
Expect the unexpected from a Greener Senate
It has taken the best part of a year, but the full consequences of last August’s election have now played out. History tells us to expect the unexpected.
Parkinson: low-carbon economy not as hard as it looks
Our hung parliament presented, for the first time in living memory, an opportunity to deal with the substantive policy issues ignored in the campaign, writes Giles Parkinson of Climate Spectator.
Parkinson: EU carbon … a zero-sum game?
Just as the federal government prepares to announce details of its carbon pricing regime in the next week or two, the European emissions trading scheme is lurching through another crisis, writes Giles Parkinson.
The major economic reforms no one voted for
The Australian economy is facing massive restructuring without our politicians lifting a finger, thanks to a manufacturing industry that’s in its longest period of decline since the 1990s recession.
Tony Abbott, stuntman extraordinaire
Tony Abbott’s call for a plebiscite on Labor’s carbon tax reduced Australian politics to the level of stupid stunts, and the fourth estate didn’t exactly hold him to account, writes Greg Jericho.
Look beyond a carbon price and examine whether your cuts will count
The way in which the CPRS set both a cap above which emissions could not rise and a floor below which emissions could not fall was widely debated, if not widely understood, during 2009 and 2010. But those lessons need to be learnt again, writes Dr Richard Denniss.
The fetishisation of the economic status quo
A desire to freeze the Australian economy in time is at odds with the wave of economic change being driven by China.
PC reveals the great greenhouse rip-off
There can no longer be any doubt — the Australia and overseas experiences shows an ETS is by far the cheapest way to cut emissions
Business Council of where?
Some of our “Australian” industry bodies don’t quite live up to their titles, write Bernard Keane and Crikey intern Iona Salter.
Parkinson: making carbon a pollie-free zone
Professor Ross Garnaut has concluded the only safe way to manage a carbon price going forward is to keep politicians as far away from the process as possible, writes Giles Parkinson.
Garnaut goes hard on compensation in final report
Ross Garnaut’s final report spells out the consequences for politicians of only having limited revenue to play with.
Say Yes… to better climate policy?
The media is buzzing with Cate Blanchett’s involvement in a new ad campaign about a carbon price. This ‘Say Yes’ campaign reveals just how low the bar has been set on national climate policy, writes Leigh Ewbank.
