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.
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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 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?
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.
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.
Why won’t Wong look at bigger emissions cuts?
Why does the Government consistently refuse to even model what 40% emissions cuts would mean, something the Greens have asked for repeatedly over many months? asks Tim Hollo.
Wong’s cynical renewable energy play
The Government is happy to sacrifice its Renewable Energy Target for political expediency.
Fashions on the Hill: politics gets gussied up
The Midwinter Press Gallery Ball is Canberra’s night of nights. And as with all red-carpet events worth their salt, it’s now time for us to brutally judge the attendees on their fashion sense.
Senator Fielding, climate change scepticism and the importance of peer review
Senator Steve Fielding, while denying that he is a climate sceptic, appears to have retreated to first principles on climate change.
