So what is on offer from the Government and the Opposition on climate change, and where does the truth lie? Andrew Macintosh explains all the troublesome acronyms.
Emissions Trading Scheme
Crikey Clarifier: Rudd versus Abbott on climate change: what’s the difference?
John Hewson: The grossly irresponsible climate politicking
Our pollies and media are too caught up in the colour, political point scoring and scare campaign of the climate change debate to focus on what we really need: strong policy to challenge climate change, writes ex-Liberal leader John Hewson.
Van Onselen: Why Turnbull must cross the floor
Malcolm Turnbull will have to cross the floor and vote for the government’s emissions trading scheme or face looking like a prize idiot, says Peter Van Onselen.
Davidson: ETS stands for Environmentally Terrible Scheme
Kevin Rudd’s decision to stand by the ETS plan is both politically and environmentally flawed, argues Kenneth Davidson. We need a climate policy, not a perfect scare campaign for the Opposition.
Coorey: We’re all losers with these dud climate policies
It’s nearly time for embattled ex-leader and ETS supporter Malcolm Turnbull to cross the floor to vote with the ETS or abstain from voting. Philip Coorey weighs up the options in a policy that seems determined to fail.
Nielsen: Abbott deals a blow to Rudd, ETS
The latest Nielsen poll, the first since Tony Abbott became Liberal leader, has Labor’s two-party lead at 54-46, down from 56-44. Rudd’s approval approval is down six and disapproval up four, while support for the government’s ETS is down 10.
Monckton’s Melbourne meeting: a gathering of men in Richie Benaud blazers
What’s it like to attend a Lord Monckton meeting? For the cheering crowd of Old-Australia-RSL-club climate change deniers who flocked to see him, it was like a rock concert.
Tax the voters or tax the polluters: which will you pick at the ballot box?
Tony Abbott’s new climate policy has shifted the political focus on the climate change debate, and his “taxing the voters” plan is going to bomb at election time. Rudd must be laughing, writes The Piping Shrike.
Kohler: Abbott’s clever climate change policy
Against all expectations, Tony Abbott and Greg Hunt have actually come up with a clever climate change policy, and certainly one that will change the debate in Australia.
Ripping the guts out of Abbott’s climate change policy
The pundits in the Australian media have descended like vultures this morning to tear into Tony Abbott’s new climate change policy.
web exclusive Abbott’s answer to climate change: ERF
Tony Abbott has announced a confusing and sketchy direct action policy on climate change centring on an unfunded multi-billion dollar “Emissions Reduction Fund”. Just what this debate needs: another acronym.
Wong: CPRS: you know it makes sense
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong makes her last-ditch case for the government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, ahead of today’s vote: it’s the easiest way to limit on our emissions before Mexico.
Risk management, $100b and Question Time bingo
The Government faces a tough sell on climate change, especially if Abbott and his media cheerleaders are skillful enough salesmen to convince voters climate change can be crossed off their list of concerns just by throwing some handouts around.
Mungo MacCallum: Greens and climate change … welcome back to the real world
So with a great (self-trumpeted) fanfare, the Greens have returned to the climate change debate — and about bloody time.
WSJ: Rudd doesn’t know what Australians want — we do
In an op-ed that reads like a Liberal Party press release, the Wall St Journal says Kevin Rudd is out-of-step with ordinary Australians, and calls on him to ditch his “big, fat tax” ETS plans and “other expensive, big-government ideas”.
Labor is losing the ground war on global warming opinion
Possum Comitatus digs deeper into a recent poll on Australians’ attitudes to CPRS and global warming, and finds that the ALP’s failure to strongly combat climate change scepticism is klling its CPRS hopes.
Our action on climate change saves money, why is everyone else complaining?
As our Federal pollies prepare to once again get bogged down in a mire of name calling and mud-slinging over action on climate change, local government is getting on with the job, writes Mayor of the City of Stonnington, Tim Smith.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: God save the Queen
Professor David Flint and his colleagues at Australians for Constitutional Monarchy are always ready to discuss the niceties of any proposed reform of the Australian crown.
Stick that in your pie hole: ETS won’t inflate prices
In what no doubt will be a relief for pie eaters everywhere, a pie shop owner has confirmed that the ETS will likely be absorbed without any additional price rise for pies, reports Crikey intern Flint Duxfield.
Abbott’s army powerless against climate change
Tony Abbott will rally a “green army” to save the environment, but his anointed generals say it will be powerless in the face of climate change inaction.
Whatever Rudd is, Abbott is the opposite
Kevin Rudd isn’t quite sure how to handle new Opposition leader Tony Abbott yet. From refugees to climate change, Abbott’s been out on the Rudd offensive and Kevin is right to be worried, says Paul Daley.
Garrett: Abbott’s half-baked magic pudding policies
It’s bullshit that Tony Abbott can dramatically cut carbon emissions without any significant cost, says Peter Garrett. The CPRS won’t cost a fortune, makes polluters not taxpayers pay and makes environment sense.
Crabb: Will Robot Rudd finally malfunction?
It’s going to be a long hot summer for Robot Rudd and Mad Monk Tony as they struggle to figure out their own carbon emissions plans, but their election fight will be a win for democracy, says Annabel Crabb.
Bronwyn Bishop: The Copenhagen fairy tale with no happy ending
The Hans Christian Anderson classic, ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’, is a nice allegory for the Copenhagen climate summit. Who’s going to mention that the Copenhagen Accord is spun from lies? asks Bronwyn Bishop.
