Bahnisch: Liberals fight over their own soulThe CPRS battles within the Liberal party have nothing to do with good public policy or climate change, says Mark Bahnisch — it’s a contest over the spoils of opposition and the ideological direction of the party itself.
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Turnbull’s climate crunch is coming
Malcolm Turnbull’s only real option is to reject Rudd’s CPRS and hand victory to Minchin and his colleagues.
Tanner: “Paranoid” Minchin’s conspiracy theories need to end
Senator Nick Minchin’s suggestion that climate change is all some global left-wing communist conspiracy is undermining serious negotiations between the Government and Opposition on emissions trading, writes MP Lindsay Tanner.
Coalition at war
The Coalition has descended into new levels of chaos over emissions trading, with a pack of 17 rebels getting behind Senator Nick Minchin as he slammed the scheme in Parliament yesterday, and even Tony Abbott now reneging his support.
How will the CPRS Carnival end?
In the next week or so, the carnival of climate carpetbaggers is about to fold its tents on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. How it will all end up is still anyone’s guess, writes John Connor.
Joyce: Why I’m still voting no on the CPRS
The Nationals’ Barnaby Joyce outlines the reasons he won’t be won over on emissions trading: “the CPRS will change the air we breathe by 0.0000000978 of 1%.”
Either way, Turnbull’s on eggshells
Malcolm Turnbull is caught in a pincer movement between Liberal conservatives and Kevin Rudd — and both appear determined to destroy him.
Crikey Says: Minchin destroys the Liberal Party to save it
Nick Minchin’s appearance onn Four Corners last week was a calculated performance by one of the country’s shrewdest political tacticians who knew precisely how the media and his colleagues would react.
Turnbull facing partyroom revolt
Ten Coalition MPs have warned Malcolm Turnbull that they will cross the floor and vote against emissions trading laws laws, regardless of any negotiations.
A radioactive issue for the Coalition?
Why has Ian Macfarlane completely reversed his opinion on Carbon Capture and Storage — from such a strong advocate of the when in government to his recent denunciation on Four Corners? asks Michael James.
Take your CPRS and shove it
Bernard Keane is sick of Penny Wong’s tedious droning, Kevin Rudd’s sanctimony, Coalition climate denialists, Barnaby Joyce, rentseekers and everything else tied up in the never-ending CPRS debate.
The Australian climate movement needs to take a good, hard look at itself
Following Copenhagen, the Australian climate movement needs to take a hard collective look at itself, with the aim of achieving unity around the crucial goal of reducing Australia’s greenhouse house gas emissions to zero by 2030.
Where’s the warning for investors from the big polluters?
Some of Australia’s biggest polluters continue to say one thing in public about the CPRS and tell their shareholders another.
Grattan: Rudd still has a deal to make at home
The world’s leaders may have given up on a climate change treaty at Copenhagen, but brokering a climate deal at home will still give Kevin Rudd considerable clout at the conference, says Michelle Grattan
Calling TRUenergy’s CPRS bluff
There is a peculiar distinction between what large polluters like TRUEnergy say in their quest for additional compensation, and what they tell key financial stakeholders like customers and shareholders.
The real costs of Rudd’s CPRS are just starting to surface
The Government’s climate change policy is incoherent and becoming ever more expensive, writes Sinclair Davidson. No amount of name-calling is going to change the fact that this policy is a lemon and needs to be radically reconsidered.
Rudd and the rentseekers: climate for sale
If the Prime Minister is so angry about the efforts of denialists to derail action on climate change, here’s a suggestion: stop giving them taxpayers’ money.
Is Rudd the worst kind of climate skeptic?
Kevin Rudd’s speech to the Lowy Institute last Friday was one of the most extraordinary pieces of rhetorical hypocrisy this country has seen in recent years, says Tim Hollo.
Revealed: The high cost of the CPRS
Yesterday’s MYEFO figures reveal in clear terms just what a policy disaster the current version of the CPRS is. It also gives the lie to the absurd line from ETS opponents that the CPRS is a giant tax.
Poll: ETS too soft on big-business
This week’s Essential Report comes in with a two party preferred vote of 59-41 — a 1-point gain to the ALP — and also finds one-third of Australians think the government’s emissions trading scheme goes too far in favouring big business.
I’m a climate currency leakage sceptic
Carbon leakage is all superstition and nonsense, says Bernard Keane — and he can produce the figures to prove it.
What will Wong’s CPRS actually do?
The Government’s CPRS does nothing to reduce the number of coal-fired power stations, insulates the petrol price from the carbon price, and does not cover agriculture. So what does it do, asks Dr Richard Denniss.
Rudd might as well flick the dissolution switch
The Government is now in such a strong position, they may figure they’ll get their CPRS through after a double dissolution with minimal risk. Why bother negotiating with an Opposition so patently out of favour with voters?
CPRS conspiracy theories: The Oz dons a tin-foil hat
The government is facing one of the greatest policy challenges in recent times, but instead of thoughtful, insightful and informed commentary from the national broadsheet, it’s reporting straight from the grassy knoll? suggests Sophie Black
Coalition CPRS plan will cost $20 billion
The sheer cost of the Coalition’s CPRS demands — $1.6b in the first full year and over $20b between now and 2020 — will be the biggest problem as Penny Wong and Ian Macfarlane sit down to negotiate this afternoon.
