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Penny Wong 
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.
Turnbull’s execution was all in the mind
Yesterday’s special coalition party room meeting about whether or not Malcolm Turnbull could get the Coalition to agree to make ETS amendments wasn’t so much a damp squib as sopping wet.
Swan’s Frontier moment shows just what Turnbull is up against
Nothing is left to chance with the Rudd government. No detail is too small that it can’t be deployed in the remorseless bombardment of the Opposition. Like Wayne Swan picking holes in their CPRS proposal.
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.
National Water Commission report: going backwards on environmental management
The National Water Commission’s report on water reform may be one of the most dispiriting government reports ever compiled. River systems are collapsing and regional communities suffering.
Grattan: The ETS boxing match of Turnbull vs. Rudd
The double dissolution ghost is still haunting Malcolm Turnbull, writes Michelle Grattan, even though an early election would mean a shortened second term for Kevin Rudd.
Murray Darling deals in a shocking state
While NSW and the Commonwealth have agreed to a deal that will see the lifting of NSW’s embargo on water trading, Victoria and Queensland aren’t cooperating. Bernard Keane breaks it down.
Wong kicks Turnbull when he’s down
Environment minister Penny Wong’s letter to Malcolm Turnbull on the CPRS timetable is a particularly low-rent effort to further damage the Liberals.
Wong: Dear Malcolm, it’s time to stop dawdling
Environment Minister Penny Wong has written an open letter to Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull today, telling him she needs to see his amendments to the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. ASAP.
Wong tells Turnbull: Put up or shut up on emissions trading
Penny Wong has given the Opposition a stern ultimatum: finalise your ETS changes within four weeks, or there’s no room for negotiation — and face the possibility of a double dissolution election.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Reports of neo-cons’ death greatly exagerrated
American politics is about more than just “left vs” right, say readers. Plus: the “Wangaratta Suppression”, some questions and answers on Penny Wong climate “compromise”, how to take a holiday from Kevin Rudd and more.
Crikey Says: Wong’s Copenhagen plan don’t make it right
Penny Wong’s climate change “plan”, letting developing countries create their own national targets, is just more media management from a Government expert in the art.
Crikey Clarifier: Penny Wong’s climate change ‘compromise’
As the do-or-die climate change meeting in Copenhagen looms, Penny Wong and Kevin Rudd marched to New York today with their new plan to bring developing countries to the table. But how would it work?
Copenhagen heats up with Wong’s big plan
The boiling point for climate change reform is Copenhagen, and today Penny Wong announces a radical plan for developing countries: they submit their own national targets and schedules.
Parliamentary sisters are doing it for themselves
The feminisation of the Rudd government “seems to be the end of tokenism, with women pollies no longer a novelty”, writes Dr Paul Williams. Will Julia Gillard and Nicola Roxon be battling it out for first female PM?
Turnbull underlings wrecking the Libs
Last night Malcolm Turnbull should have flown back to Sydney, gone home and had a few stiff drinks. It has been a hell of a week for him. And this time, it wasn’t of his own making.
Cubbie won’t wash away govt water woes
The government is doing too little too late with water allocation in the Murray Darling Basin. Buying the controversial Cubbie Station will not improve the water woes, writes Ben Eltham.
Mungo MacCallum: Taking the RET out of ETS
Tthe government had finally shown common sense in separating its Renewable Energy Bill from the Emissions Trading Scheme Bill, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Wong may backtrack on renewables
It looks as if the government may succumb to political pressure and withdraw its Renewable Energy Target legislation from the CPRS next week.
Coalition’s a muddle, but that doesn’t make Wong right
Penny Wong’s relentless insistence that the real question is always Mr Turnbull’s leadership is doing the government no favours in its so-far successful campaign to use climate change as a political weapon.
Emissions negotiations to begin
The ALP must negotiate with the coalition and the Greens on carbon policy before it can threaten a double-dissolution election. Get ready Malcolm Turnbull, writes Lenore Taylor.
Never mind the RET, let’s just thrash the opposition
The Government’s emissions trading bill isn’t the only climate change-related bill coming back next week: during the last Parliamentary session, the CPRS picked up a hitchhiker in the form of the bill to implement the Government’s Renewable Energy Target.
Murray-Darling: same mess it always was
In the first of a two-part series, Bernard Keane looks at just how little has changed — and how much has been spent — in the fight to save the Murray-Darling Basin.
