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What electricity will really cost under a carbon tax
Media beat-ups aside, the proportion of the carbon price that is passed onto consumers remains a great unknown. ANU’s Andrew Macintosh The Australia Institute’s Richard Denniss report.
Crikey Says: Dodgy maths of carbon tax predictions
Get ready for the disaster that looms on July 1. Not the carbon tax, necessarily, but the barrage of tabloid media beat-ups.
Cutting policies, and carbon emissions, in the newest blue states
Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu yesterday announced it was scrapping the former Brumby government’s climate change target of reducing carbon emissions by 20% by 2020. And he’s not the only premier dismantling climate change programs, writes Amber Jamieson.
Solar subsidies just the tip of energy policy confusion iceberg
Is it any wonder that Australia’s energy and climate change policy is in a permanent state of confusion, writes Dr Richard Denniss, executive director of Canberra-based think tank The Australia Institute.
Parkinson: our cheap grid is letting us down: that’s not smart
Nothing epitomises the challenges of Australia’s future energy needs as the state of the National Electricity Market itself, writes Renew Economy’s Giles Parkinson.
Beyond the carbon price, a Faustian bargain
Decarbonising the economy quickly is absolutely necessary, writes David Spratt, an author and researcher in climate change.
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.
Abbott’s statesman’s hat is so unfashionably last year
I attended Tony Abbott’s address to The Sydney Institute last night with real enthusiasm, expecting to hear something good. However, what we got was 2010 revisited.
Sideshow Alley: Barnaby Joyce on wind chimes and Angelina Jolie
Bye bye Australia, bye bye Newcastle, every time you turn a power point on, you’ll all be eaten alive by zombie carbon monsters springing from dishwashers across the nation…
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Media diversity rests with advertisers
The federal government’s media inquiry: Brian Mitchell writes: Re. “Media inquiry: ‘marketplace of ideas’ not working that well” (yesterday, item 3). Robert Manne et al miss the point, as usual, when it comes to diversity in the media. The battle to increase media diversity rests not with editorial, but with advertising. To get more real […]
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.
Budget surplus fetish means more harsh spending cuts
If the government is serious about guaranteeing an excess of revenue over expenses, it must make spending cuts now, writes Adam Creighton, a research fellow at The Centre For Independent Studies.
Crikey Says: The little carbon tax that could
Now that wasn’t that hard, was it?
Newspoll: support falls for carbon tax
The latest Newspoll offers the government a mixed bag: its best 2PP result since May but a 10-point net decline in support for the carbon tax since late July, writes William Bowe.
podcast Canberra Calling: The blood pledge podcast
Crikey’s political podcast returns after a brief hiatus with Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane joining Crikey editor Sophie Black to discuss the tumultuous week in politics following the passage of the Gillard government’s clean energy legislation.
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Essential: we don’t like carbon tax any more now it’s passed
Opinion of the carbon tax has been little affected either by the government’s political success in negotiating it through the House of Representatives nor by the perceived unseemliness of the triumphalism that followed.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The pure political pragmatism of the climate change debate
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Abbott’s gory pledge would be a legal bloodbath
Tont Abbott’s hyperbole has certainly attracted the headlines, but it betrays a curious tactic, writes Fergus Green, a lawyer and policy analyst specialising in climate change.
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‘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.
Kisses all round as clean energy bills pass the House
When the last vote finally came to adopt the 18 clean energy bills as complete package, former Slater & Gordon lawyer Adam Bandt broke into a broad grin, his election night pronouncements 14 months ago having born fruit.
Rundle: carbon tax a monument to Labor, and testimony to a burial
The carbon tax will be Labor’s historical triumph; if a post-Labor Senate can lock it in, then it will be, for the Gillard government, a monument –- and like all monuments, testimony to a burial.
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