Decarbonising the economy quickly is absolutely necessary, writes David Spratt, an author and researcher in climate change.
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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.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: A third way needed on Australia Network
Crikey readers have their say.
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
Crikey readers have their say.
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.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: While the Canberra beltway cheers the carbon tax …
Crikey readers have their say.
‘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.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The carbon tax bill, et al
Crikey readers have their say.
Political snippets: Uncertainty the only certainty
So Australia has almost got to the point of establishing a price on carbon emissions with the House of Representatives passing legislation this morning and passage through the Senate being little more than a formality.
Crikey Says: Never mind the kiss, how ’bout that carbon tax?
Yes, in the context of their relationship that embrace is quite momentous, considering the two can’t usually manage to look each other in the eye. But not quite as momentous as say, the passage of the actual Clean Energy legislation.
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.
Question time: offline and out of line, but they’ve still got it
Ah, House of Representatives question time, that 2pm trip back to Year 10 assembly in which the nation’s best political minds joust unceasingly for petulant advantage — and that’s just the limelight addicts in the front row of the press gallery.
Green day: the real architects behind the carbon tax bill
On a reliably frigid Canberra morning holed up in a ramshackle hotel bereft of any kind of heating, the sound of Anthony Albanese seeping out of the clock radio to claim total credit for the passage of the carbon tax seemed too much to bear.
Why companies that worm their way into a carbon tax are winners
The concept of irony just doesn’t do justice to the twists, turns, deceit and rank hypocrisy that has accompanied the long, slow road to the introduction of a price on carbon in Australia, writes Dr Richard Denniss, executive director of Canberra-based think tank The Australia Institute.
