Is it any wonder that Australia’s energy and climate change policy is in a permanent state of confusion, writes Dr Richard Denniss, executive director of Canberra-based think tank The Australia Institute.
Kim Carr
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Oh what a terrible feeling: Toyota to axe 350 jobs
Crikey media wrap: Toyota employees were told yesterday that 350 jobs are to be axed from its Altona North factory in Melbourne, in a decision that will affect the entire industry.
Kohler: this is Carr’s chance to rev the EV engine
You would think, reading the claptrap about why the federal government is giving $34 million to Ford, that there was no such thing as an electric car.
The car industry’s (not so) merry-go-round
It’s only three years since the car industry was last rescued. Meantime, other parts of manufacturing have got on with the job of lifting productivity.
Ford bailout reignites car manufacturing
debate
Crikey media wrap: Kim Carr’s announcement yesterday of a $103 million cash injection for Ford Australia has reignited the debate about the viability of Australia’s automobile manufacturing sector.
Behind the scenes: the lowdown from the lock-up
There’s no bigger shattering of journalistic hubris than the annual scrum outside the budget lock-up.
Health funding faces the chop but has Carr saved science?
Budget cut speculation is centring on the Health portfolio, with big cuts rumoured for medical research. But other areas look safer.
Molecular biosensing with First Dog On The Moon
As a result of interfacing surface acoustic wave microfluidics atomisation platform with mass spectrometry
Senator McGuaran vs the Giant Space-Tarantulas from Pluto
Is Climate Change truly-ruly a thing? We may never know!
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Why Bernie Brookes will be sweating at today’s Melbourne Cup
Myer’s Bernie Brookes has a hard day ahead, University of Sydney splashes its cash about, is The Spearman Experiment about to be axed? And trouble on the high seas abord the HMAS Stuart.
Carr has his head in the sand on exports
Australia might be free from recession and recovering, but the big traditional manufacturing (making) economies of the US, the UK, Germany, Japan, South Korea are still very sick. Demand for goods that are ‘made’ is going to be very weak for some time.
Whatever happened to the Education Revolution?
The bottom line is that funding per student in higher education remains lower than before the mid-1990s, and considerably lower than in most OECD countries, writes Erica Cervini.
Budget countdown: innovation and protectionism
Industries are lining up for the same sort of generosity that Kim Carr likes to dole out to the car industry.
Good Day!
Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ…
Memo to Kim Carr: stop dipping into taxpayers’ candy jar
When a business decides it’s time to go, there’s no point berating them or rashly and recklessly offering them suitcases of taxpayers’ dollars hoping to bribe them to stay, writes Greg Barns.
Blokes make cars, women make clothes … guess who wins
Two industries, two vastly different amounts of protectionism, Bernard Keane reports.
Just another Tuesday at Parliament House
The Government’s stimuls package arrives…
Victorian ALP: A fraction too much faction
The unprecedented factional deal struck last week between opposing factions in the Victorian ALP could last longer than some pundits are suggesting, writes Andrew Crook.
Shorten shores up position as Victoria’s kingmaker
Bill Shorten is now able to boast to the Prime Minister that the era of factional bloodletting in Victoria is over, writes Andrew Crook.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Rudd returns from holidays on Monday, and despite a productive start to his first term in government, the In tray on his desk is overflowing.
Does manufacturing need a saviour?
The Labor spokesman for Industry, Kim Carr, has reopened a settled debate by hinting at a reversal of the lower tariff regime that for 20 years has enjoyed bi partisan support. Does the Australian manufacturing sector need Kim Carr to rescue it from dastardly distress?
