Malcolm Turnbull’s only real option is to reject Rudd’s CPRS and hand victory to Minchin and his colleagues.
Emissions trading
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.
Minchin won’t cross the floor on emissions
Senator Nick Minchin may be the Coalition’s most outspoken critic of emissions trading emissions trading, but he will vote for it if it’s that is the party room’s decision.
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.
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.
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.
John Kerry searches for his political legacy
John Kerry may have discovered the issue that will get him written into the history books: emissions trading. He’s working on a compromise bill for the Senate, but how many favours will he need to dole out to get it passed?
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.
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?
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.
Taylor: This is just round one
Malcolm Turnbull is about to face a big dilemma, says Lenore Taylor: the Government is unlikely to agree to all of his CPRS amendments, and his own party is unlikely to accept any compromise.
Davidson: Remember when this debate was actually about climate change?
The Federal Government and Opposition have both polluted the emissions trading debate with infighting and political power plays, says Kenneth Davidson. Neither party is offering a clear or realistic vision to combat global warming.
Grattan: Turnbull’s won the battle, but not the war
Malcolm Turnbull may have won the first fight with his party over emissions trading, but there are two much bigger battles ahead, says Michelle Grattan: negotiating with the government, then trying to get that deal through the party room. This war is far from over.
Coalition to deal on Rudd’s CPRS
Malcolm Turnbull has finally worn the Coalition backbench down on emissions trading. Bernard Keane looks at the amendments he’ll be bringing to the negotiating table.
Wong boring everyone to tears with details of flawed CPRS
Penny Wong is a climate sceptic. She may use the term to describe those who ignore the overwhelming science about the causes of climate change, yet she ignores those same scientists when it comes to actual policy, writes Dr Richard Denniss.
Wayne Swan’s $3.2b CPRS con job
Wayne Swan has told the media that Frontier Economics’ greenhouse gas proposal has a $3.2b hole in it. There is no such black hole, writes Frontier chief Danny Price: it’s just a good old-fashioned beat up.
Greens talk common sense on climate bill
This morning the Greens launched a raft of amendments to improve the Government’s CPRS bill — and they’re the most sensible suggestions any party has made on the issue in some time.
Farr: Three elections in five years? No chance.
Even if the ETS doesn’t get passed, it’s highly unlikely that PM Kevin Rudd will pull the double dissolution trigger because it would condemn voters to three elections in just five years, writes Malcolm Farr.
