If Nick Xenophon holds the balance of power in the Senate after the election, climate change policy will get very interesting. Here’s one possible scenario — which sees an ETS return, but in a different form.
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Climate: sweeping cuts to programs — and more to come?
The budget has axed $2.4 billion from climate programs as the government compensates for a likely big drop in revenue from the carbon price from 2015. And there might be much bigger cuts to come next year.
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PromiseWatch 2013: climate change and carbon pricing
Crikey’s PromiseWatch project shifts its gaze to climate change.
READ MOREWhy business wants the carbon price to stay
With questions hanging over the Coalition’s climate policy, it’s becoming obvious the business community wants the carbon price to stay. Here’s four reasons why …
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Richard Farmer’s chunky bits
The Gold Coast mayor is attacking the $30 a year for the carbon tax, plus other political issues of the day.
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The Power Index: carbon cutters, bureaucratic troika at #1
Three senior bureaucrats have taken the country on a bold economic experiment to address climate change. Martin Parkinson, Blair Comley and Ross Garnaut have fingerprints all over the carbon price — but is that such a good thing?
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Toxic Labor brand cost WA’s Mark McGowan his chance
While WA Labor leader Mark McGowan out-campaigned the Premier, Labor suffered a huge swing. Former WA Liberal (and Independent Liberal) senator Noel Crichton-Browne points the finger at federal Labor — and the Nationals.
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The Power Index: carbon cutters, Coalition influencers at #9
Who will influence Tony Abbott on climate policy if he claims the Lodge? The Coalition vows to ditch the carbon tax but its Direct Action alternative needs resourcing. The Power Index examines the field and finds ex-minister Robert Hill could be in the box seat.
READ MOREWill Abbott’s axe really kill carbon trading in Australia?
Tony Abbott is likely to rescind the current cap-and-trade legislation if he wins the next election, but it’s easy to see the potential for a new carbon pricing scheme to develop out of the stump his axe created.
READ MOREResources firms dine out despite carbon tax scare campaign
Australian resources companies have enjoyed a healthy six months since the introduction of the Gillard government’s feared carbon tax. So much for the predicted business wipeout.
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Tips and rumours
ICAC exchange pits Fairfax vs News … what you should see on your power bill … IT gremlins at the AFR …
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Tips and rumours
Who’s shutting down Sweden’s transparency sites? … what your electricity bill should really say … Qld floods campaign gutted of funding …
READ MOREA year of scare: how the carbon tax played out
The scare campaign around the carbon price has been demonstrated to be a complete hoax. But it took 12 months of painful debate to get there. Here’s how the year in emissions reduction played out.
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Tips and rumours
Paul Howes just loves this pub … $240 for a dinner and it’s BYO? … sacked workers miss out on the wagyu sliders at Xmas party …
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Essential: carbon tax much more popular than Abbott
The much-maligned carbon tax has staged a solid rehabilitation in Essential Research polling. In fact, it’s now more popular than Tony Abbott.
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Lekker! A carbon tax in South Africa without the politics
South Africa’s path to a carbon tax has been smoother than Australia’s. The Climate Institute’s Erwin Jackson chats with South African energy expert Harald Winkler to find out more.
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Carbon tax a growth thing in Canada
A new report on the impact of the carbon tax introduced in the Canadian state of British Columbia four years ago shows the state’s GDP has grown faster than the rest of the nation that doesn’t have one.
READ MOREEuro vision: Australia’s new carbon regime explained
Australia has hitched itself to Europe’s climate change wagon yesterday in a move which will have far-reaching — and uncertain — consequences for the domestic carbon scheme.
READ MOREDon’t cut spending in a recession: the warning from Europe
Don’t cut spending in a recession, try it in an upturn if you can and make sure when you cut there’s a credible tax increase in the mix. That’s the warning from the IMF to Europe — and Australia.
READ MOREWhy you should stop moaning about electricity prices
Amongst the energetic debate about rising power prices a key point is being missed – they’re saving us from deflation.
READ MOREMungo: as predicted, the carbon tax changed nothing
One week into the carbon tax, and how did we fare? As predicted nothing much changed, but that might actually be bad news for the government, writes Mungo MacCallum.
READ MOREWhat happens if there’s no carbon bottom?
The decision to dump the floor price on an emissions trading scheme would ignore the long-term need for investment in renewable energy and actually raise costs for business overall, experts say.
READ MOREClimate change isn’t about choosing the coolest technologies
Crikey readers have their say.
READ MOREWhat Brumby’s did wrong — and what others can learn from their boo-boo
Brumby’s was called out after instructing its franchisees to jack up prices and blame the carbon tax. Cara Waters explains what steps the company should have taken.
READ MORETreating voters as manipulable by spin
Crikey readers have their say.
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