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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The Coalition’s Direct Action Plan
‘Direct action’ in more trouble as ‘soil magic’ blowouts loom
The cost of “soil magic” under the Coalition’s “direct action” climate change plan may have been challenged by Greg Hunt himself.
When international permits are OK or not OK
The new carbon package deals with the issue of international permits far better than the CPRS did. Funny the Coalition is complaining about it.
Hunt’s climate policy just blew out 30%
With exquisite timing, while Malcolm Turnbull was criticising the Coalition’s climate policy, Greg Hunt was confirming his warnings about its budget impact.
Hunt joins the climate denialist cutters and pasters
Another Coalition frontbencher has been caught out relying on dodgy claims off the internet, along with plenty of others.
Broken promises and price rises
Welcome back to the politics of climate change, Australian style, which wrecks leaderships, sunders parties and induces bizarre alliances as a matter of course.
Expert to government: dump cash for clunkers
An expert tells the Government to dump cash-for-clunkers, Greg Hunt goes cherry picking. The Government’s carbon price committee is warming up.
When the political gets personal
Liberal MP Greg Hunt impressed Greg Jericho (the blogger formerly known as Grog’s Gamut). And perhaps surprisingly — since Hunt is shadow minister for climate action and the environment — it was his thoughts on mental health that were the most compelling.
Kloppers reignites climate debate
Politicians should be wary of business leaders - such as BHP CEO Marius Kloppers - urging action on issues like climate change.
Fight for our MP’s right to vote online
Whilst the ‘Dome of Conscience’ may sound like a tardus type contraption, it was only a few years back that many thought it was the magic bullet in the quest towards parliamentary honesty and transparent debate, writes Zach Kitschke.
Political snippets: Getting depressed watching television
If you need a reason to be depressed about our political system watch Penny Wong and Greg Hunt’s performance on The 7.30 Report last night.
Local snapshot: Flinders ALP candidate accuses Abbott of contributing to suicides
Whatever your view of Tony Abbott and his policies, it’s a bit much to accuse him of contributing to suicides. And yet a prospective Labor MP for the seat of Flinders has done exactly that.
Overington: A love song to Greg Hunt
Caroline Overington pens a bizarre love poem to Opposition environment minister Greg Hunt, including the immortal lines “You know Greg Hunt, he rides a bike, But will he let me feel his Newspoll spike?”.
Opposition fails to pin Garrett
The Coalition’s pursuit of Peter Garrett has faded in only the second Question Time this week, with the Minister untroubled by sustained Opposition questioning this afternoon.
Peter Garrett and the perpetual present of politics
Peter Garrett either should or shouldn’t have attended a meeting this week, and should or should roll out solar panels fast, and is or isn’t guilty of industrial manslaughter. Welcome to political journalism.
Garrett fingered over dodgy solar panels, but story ‘a beat up’
Dodgy home solar panel installations are putting lives at risk and Peter Garrett is solely responsible, if you believe the news reports doing the rounds today. Except, that’s not quite the whole story.
David Marr: Climate change has been chucked into the too hard basket
Climate change? That was so last year, laments David Marr. Canberra has grown tired of it because it’s all too complicated, and it’s far more interesting to see Tony Abbott dance around and make a fool of himself.
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.
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.
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.
Bartlett: Do we as say, not as we’d do
Whilst holding a government to its promises has a lot going for it, urging the government to do something that you believe yourself is a bad idea just because you are the Opposition is a bit of a non-sequitur, writes Andrew Bartlett.
Coorey: The heat is now on Hunt
Pity poor Greg Hunt, says Phillip Coorey: the Opposition environment spokesperson Greg Hunt now has a month to fashion out some sort of climate-change policy without an emissions trading scheme.
Snatch the Murray-Darling Basin from the states to save it
There’s a clear solution to the management problems of the Murray-Darling, at least in the view of many South Australians: a full Commonwealth takeover of the Basin, writes Bernard Keane in his second special water report.
Baby in the chamber: the ugly anti-family face of parliament
Our Parliamentary standards are still stuck in a Victorian era of old white male legislators, writes Bernard Keane.
