Without any mechanism to discourage additional carbon emissions, the Coalition’s “direct action” climate plan may perversely reward them, says David Spratt.
Federal coalition
NSW mafia stains Labor and Liberal alike
The overnight decision by the AFP to re-investigate donations to the Liberal Party by colourful characters with alleged Italian Mafia links is like an unguided Exocet missile.
The King is dead, let’s assassinate the King
And now the worms turn. Perhaps not today – they’re a bit distracted by the Liberal Party rabble – but soon enough. The journalists who have been bagged by Coalition toadies and would-be Liberal candidates as being a bunch of doctrinaire Howard-haters will start to show their true colours, writes Michael Pascoe.
