Penny Wong: Climate change deniers are the cigarette supporters of yorePenny Wong launches a scathing attack on climate change deniers, including the lies of Climategate and says the worst thing about Copenhagen’s failure was the smugness that it gave sceptics.
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Wong: CPRS: you know it makes sense
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong makes her last-ditch case for the government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, ahead of today’s vote: it’s the easiest way to limit on our emissions before Mexico.
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.
Kerr: Abbott ducks, weaves and then hits where it hurts
Penny Wong loves to rile the Opposition about not yet having a clear climate change policy. But as much as she’d like that to be the issue, Tony Abbott is right to point out that only the government’s actions count, says Christian Kerr.
Bronwyn Bishop: The Copenhagen fairy tale with no happy ending
The Hans Christian Anderson classic, ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’, is a nice allegory for the Copenhagen climate summit. Who’s going to mention that the Copenhagen Accord is spun from lies? asks Bronwyn Bishop.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: 2009: a merry media year for the PM
Who were our biggest media hogs this year? Kevin Rudd’s dominance of media coverage was slightly less than last year, even if he did come out on top.
2009: the year in Canberra
Bernard Keane takes a look back at some of the key events of the year in federal politics.
Remember the Murray-Darling? It’s still in deep trouble …
While the Murray-Darling has dropped out of the media cycle, the goal of sustainable management remains as far off as ever, particularly after events this month.
Akerman: What part of the word “failure” doesn’t Rudd understand?
Copenhagen was an “abject disaster, a dud, a dog, a bust” and a “flopperoo of grand proportions”, says Piers Akerman — so why is he still determined to push forward with an ETS?
Taylor: Wong jeered, Chavez cheered
Our Penny was upstaged in her big speech to Copenhagen by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who spoke four times as long as he was supposed to and received a standing ovation by quoting everyone from Karl Marx to Jesus Christ himself, reports Lenore Taylor.
Penny Wong, live in Copenhagen!
Matthew Knott liveblogs Penny Wong’s speech to Copenhagen. She forewarned the crowd that her speech would not be exciting, and she sure delivered. Hugo Chavez, on the other hand…
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Copenhagen returns Kevin to his popularity throne
KevinPM finally back to the top as the Copenhagen summit starts looking more like a two week condensation of the climate change debate over the last 12 months in Australia.
What Copenhagen means to Canberra
Ben Eltham examines the domestic implications of the international Copenhagen negotiations. Labor needs a successful outcome to give them a boost pre election and right now they’re stressing that it might not happen.
Senate Hansard reveals The Great Climate Change Conspiracy (with apologies to Dan Brown)
The sacred Hansard manuscripts describe the attempts of Penny Wong, Senator from South Australia, to solve the murder of Malcolm Turnbull’s climate change amendments, writes Walter Slurry.
Copenhagen the Libs’ MacGuffin for total immolation
Copenhagen is the reason the government insists that the CPRS issue must be resolved now. Copenhagen is the reason many in the coalition think the CPRS issue shouldn’t be resolved now. Both are wrong.
Fake Stephen Fielding: PMS and a One World Government
Fake Stephen Fielding has been following the climate change and Emissions Trading Scheme debate very closely, and is very excited at the prospect of a One World Government.
Keane: The ETS Chainsaw Massacre
What a difference a few years makes. Ian “Chainsaw” Macfarlane has moved from a climate change denier in the Howard government to a CPRS loving greenie, writes Bernard Keane.
Taylor: How four people run our whole government
How controlling is Rudd and how does he compare to prior Australian PMs? Micro-manager, control freak Rudd keeps his leadership group small and lets his power loom. Is it time for more voices to be heard? asks Lenore Taylor.
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.
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.
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.
