We need to exploit our energy superpowersThere is vast global demand for Australia’s natural resources and we need reforms to get worker productivity moving and let this boom happen again. The old Labor union bosses need to set their PM straight, writes former Keating minister Gary Johns.
Martin Ferguson
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Back to the future with Ferguson’s nuclear waste legislation
Martin Ferguson says he will repeal the Howard Government’s legislation for a nuclear waste dump. Only problem is, his replacement legislation is exactly the same in critical areas.
2009: the year in Canberra
Bernard Keane takes a look back at some of the key events of the year in federal politics.
Tips and rumours: Weird and wacky world of TV news execs
What difficulties do TV execs face when they dump their wives for work experience students? Plus, The Oz slogan seems very familiar…
Ferguson urges “science, not green faith” in letter to Batman residents
Federal Energy Minister Martin Ferguson has taken a blowtorch to loyal ALP supporters in his own electorate, using a taxpayer-funded letter to slam a push for zero emissions as “faith based”.
Carbon capture and storage is an expensive pipe dream
Carbon capture and storage may be possible, but it certainly does not look commercially feasible.
Who knew an energy White Paper was under development?
Given the Government’s commitment to a renewable energy target of 20% by 2020, the absence of the renewable energy sector from the White Paper process is bizarre, writes Bernard Keane.
Albanese takes first steps to a second Sydney Airport
The first step in the process of getting a second airport for Sydney was taken this morning, writes Ben Sandilands.
AFR offers faux-support for cartel busting
Never popular with infrastructure owners (who’d have thought?), the very principles of the competiton policy have come under sustained attack in recent years, writes Bernard Keane.
The Media Monitors’ Top 20
Finally! Proof that Wayne Swan is more Ralph Willis than Paul Keating , writes Patrick Baume.
New Bill fills only some of the holes on clean coal
New draft legislation answers some of the questions surrounding the development of carbon sequestration technology, but raises others, writes carbon policy trading expert Renee Garner.
Rudd and Ferguson to dump a core election promise?
Will Kevin Rudd rein in Energy and Resources Minister Martin Ferguson, who is stalling on the implemention of election committments regarding nuclear waste management, writes Natalie Wasley.
