The Government is happy to sacrifice its Renewable Energy Target for political expediency.
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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.
Time for Wong to make a tough call on ETS
“It can’t be done while supporting jobs.” Senator Wong’s comment against strengthening the ETS suggests the government thinks it can have two bob each way on this issue. It can’t, says Andrew Bartlett.
GFC killed the ETS and Wong won’t negotiate
Warren Truss can rest easy. Penny Wong isn’t serious about negotiating with the Greens and independents over the Government’s emissions trading scheme.
Mungo MacCallum: Wong and Rudd present ETS Plan B
Rudd must now be regretting he left the climate change debate to languish on the backburner for so long.
Combet fudging the carbon tax question
Listening to Combet on Radio National this morning, you could almost hear him turning the page to his Talking Points.
Ms Wong goes to Washington
Penny Wong is in the first preparatory meeting of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, writes Erwin Jackson.
The ETS is wretched, and Wong makes it worse
Penny Wong is turning what was a political strength for the Government into a growing weakness.
The Ellis view: Kevin Rudd the Chinese lesbian
ALP wordsmith Bob Ellis appears to have outdone himself with a biting salvo at the PM’s “muscular timidity” in the latest edition of Overland magazine, writes Andrew Crook.
Keep your ETS Safe!
A handy guide
The ETS is a dog. It will never pass
The ETS will not establish incentives to reduce emissions and will not drive any transition to low-carbon industries and the jobs that will emerge from them, writes Bernard Keane.
A few points on what would make a decent CPRS
While most discussion about voluntary abatement has focused on households, the big sleeper is all the businesses whose business models will be destroyed under the present CPRS, writes Alan Pears.
Wong’s ETS is better than nothing, but not by much
A bad ETS can always be improved later, but that assumes we ever get a government prepared to ignore the rentseekers and lobbyists, writes Bernard Keane.
Milne: Nobody wants a Ferrari ETS, Minister
Minister Wong, nobody wants a Ferrari ETS! We don’t want something that is flash and fancy but gas guzzling, expensive and out of reach, writes Christine Milne.
How Wong and Rudd ate their own ETS
So let’s be clear: the Government’s rationale for amending its already-generous ETS was to ensure the profitability of big polluters, writes Bernard Keane.
We can vote down the CPRS and still save the planet
Whether or not the CPRS is passed by Parliament, the trajectory of Australia’s emissions over the next decade is likely to be determined by the international agreement that comes out of Copenhagen later this year, writes Andrew Macintosh.
Penny Wong, “High Priestess” of climate change? Yeah right.
Given Penny Wong has diligently crafted an emissions trading scheme that will do virtually nothing to reduce Australia’s carbon emissions to suggest she’s in any way fanatical about the issue is nothing short of ridiculous, writes Bernard Keane.
Wong the biggest loser in Rudd’s mini-shuffle
Given they’re only parliamentary secretaries, the first reshuffle announced late yesterday by the Prime Minister has attracted a lot of tea-leaf reading by commentators, writes Bernard Keane.
Christopher Pyne
Is he gay or just a niminy-piminy flibbertigibbet?
Memo to Wong: voluntary reductions nice but won’t save the planet
Either Penny Wong doesn’t understand her own scheme or she is deliberately lying, writes Andrew Macintosh.
Penny Wong is a cipher for Kevin Rudd
Penny Wong isn’t really to blame for the growing debacle of the Government’s emissions trading scheme plans. She’s a cipher for Kevin Rudd, writes Bernard Keane.
An ETS so bad, it makes tax and Liberals look good
The ground is shifting under the Government’s climate change approach and its previously politically strong position on the issue is being undermined, writes Bernard Keane.
Xenophon’s deal turns water into gold
The Xenophon deal will cause a massive shock to the water buyback market, writes Bernard Keane.
