A Labor MP has criticised Julia Gillard’s proposal for a ‘citizens’ assembly’, saying that he was angered to hear about it and that the proposal should have gone through Caucus and Cabinet.
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Labor doesn’t want any risks — except, it seems, with the planet
How does it make sense to pay for a scheme that reduces pollution by taking money from a scheme that eliminates pollution? asks Amanda McKenzie, national director, Australian Youth Climate Coalition
Gillard abandons leadership on climate change
It’s hard to describe just how truly wretched Labor’s new climate change policy is. It makes the CPRS, its dog of an emissions trading scheme, look like a model of best practice.
Gillard’s climate policy in brief
Julia Gillard this morning announced Labor’s revised climate change policy in light of the CPRS debacle, strong on consensus and vague standards.
Beware of climate policy promises
In the coming days the Gillard government will launch its new climate policy. Andrew Macintosh revisits some history on recent climate-related programs.
One poll-driven economic disaster — NBN — remains from horrific Rudd era
With virtually every major policy initiative of Kevin Rudd very publicly abandoned, there is one almighty policy that is not only surviving, but thriving: the $43 billion National Broadband Network.
Get in quick lobbyists! Government cobbles together climate change policy
The federal government appears to be cobbling together a credible climate change policy to take to a snap election, writes Business Spectator’s Giles Parkinson.
Flannery on the CPRS: separating fact from Flannery
In the interests of honest and accurate debate, Crikey investigated Tim Flannery’s weekend Sydney Morning Herald article for any errors or untruths. It wasn’t exactly hard, writes Andrew Macintosh.
Rudd’s execution shows reform is dead within Labor
The fall of Kevin Rudd has much to do with Rudd’s own failings. But like Morris Iemma, he was destroyed by machine men partly because he pursued sensible economic reforms.
Forget the CPRS – it’s time to set a carbon price that’s right
The Gillard government will face many forks in the road in the coming months but one of the easiest decisions should be the decision to abandon the complex and costly CPRS and replace it with the CPRT — the Carbon Pollution Reduction Tax, writes Dr Richard Denniss, executive director of The Australia Institute.
China likely to introduce carbon price before Australia
The Australian policy to not reintroduce CPRS legislation until 2013 leaves the country in danger of being left behind, with China being far more progressive on climate action, writes Peter Wood.
Senator Milne: A few stings in the tail of the boring budget
Once again, the funds allocated to renewable energy, public transport and energy efficiency pale into insignificance next to the tens of billions to roads and the military writes Australian Greens Deputy Leader Senator Christine Milne.
Quiggin: Rudd’s CPRS backflip a political disaster
The government’s politically costly decision to announce a series of backflips in the space of a few days, just before the Budget, seemed explicable only on the basis of a desire to find expenditure savings. The most prominent backflip, on the CPRS, seemed to fit this pattern, writes John Quiggin.
The climate change bombardment — it pays to co-ordinate your fire
You may have read during the week of a micro-revolt by Labor MPs over the Government’s abandonment of the CPRS. Except there was more to the bombardment by outraged younger voters than met the eye…
Clean energy sector bets everything on RET legislation after demise of CPRS
Abandoning an emissions trading scheme has frozen the renewable energy market and the Government’s “flawed” clean energy targets are stifling investment in large-scale projects like wind farms and solar generation.
Clumsy but ruthless — why Rudd is clearing the decks now
The Government is using a brief lull in the political cycle to junk everything that will get in the way of its re-election strategy. Maybe Caucus will have other ideas?
Killing the ETS was a team effort
Rudd and Wong can’t take all the credit for killing the ETS: every news outlet that ran dodgy polluter-commissioned modelling and op-eds from climate denialists and wingnuts can also take a bow.
Crikey Says: Rudd lacks the courage for serious reform
Two years ago, Kevin Rudd correctly observed that there was no point being in power unless power was used to achieve change. So, why does the PM search for reasons not to reform?
CPRS into the deep freeze
There used to be a bipartisan agreement on the need for an ETS. Now we’re further away from one than ever before.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: When Anzac Day is unAustralian
Neil James, Executive Director of the Australia Defence Association, writes about the common myths associated with Anzac Day. Plus Tamils, hoodies, the Wilderness Society and more.
Official: carbon leakage is wildly overstated
A new report does the numbers on the handouts to big polluters proposed in the government’s emissions trading scheme and finds they would have been a colossal waste.
Carbon leakage: how a carbon price would fit into big polluters’ accounts
The cost of carbon permits under the CPRS for our biggest polluters sounds a lot — until you see what they pick up or lose on the changing Aussie dollar.
Carbon leakage: reason for hand-outs or corporate hot air?
“Carbon leakage” is at the heart of the Federal Government’s beleaguered CPRS — and yet it remains an unproven theory across the globe.
Turnbull takes aim at Abbott’s climate plan
Malcolm Turnbull has demolished Tony Abbott’s climate action plan in a long speech to Parliament, putting the case for the government’s CPRS far more eloquently and coherently than Kevin Rudd ever has, reports Bernard Keane.
