If the Australian economy passed the GFC test as Ken Henry claims, then we should expect government guarantees whenever financial markets cut off funds to Aussie lenders. This isn’t something to be proud of, writes Tim Colebatch.
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Australia’s golden age extends to 2050
Don’t hide away your tuxedo yet, because Treasury Chief Ken Henry is declaring that Australia’s economic prosperity can stretch to at least 2050, as long as we use the population boom to our advantage.
Australia: good at being poor, crap at being rich
Post GFC Australia is, well, pretty much the same as pre GFC Australia. The resources boom is still bubbling away, our relations with Asia continue to be crucial. Now, how will we cope with the prosperity?
Garnaut: Climate change threatens Mabo’s legacy
Faced with rising sea waters, the people of Indigenous activist Eddie Mabo’s island, Mer, have had to move to higher ground. Man-made climate change could literally wash away everything he fought for, says Ross Garnaut.
If not Emissions Trading, then what?
When the Emissions Trading Scheme is eventually passed, it won’t be worth a damn thanks to all the political wrangling. So the real issue is — what’s the next step?
Garnaut: The ETS cannot be further distorted
A year since he released his final Climate Change Review, Ross Garnaut reflects on developments and disasters in the ongoing climate change challenge.
Garnaut who? Heads in sand over climate change
With the release of Malcolm Turnbull’s new carbon emissions plan, it becomes obvious that neither party wants to take decisive action on climate change, writes Tim Colebatch.
Garnaut to have “another crack” at ETS
Ross Garnaut says he will “have another crack” at making a better ETS, but is still unsure whether it’s best to pass the current one for the time being.
As global crisis deepens, Australia’s emissions rise
The global crisis isn’t cutting greenhouse emissions in Australia. They’re growing, 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.
The bushfires, the pain, the climate change
We were warned. Over and over again scientists told us of the increased danger of bushfires fueled by severe, protracted drought and record-breaking heat waves, writes Liz Conor.
Mungo: On Kevin Rudd’s new ‘balance’ catch-cry
The essential problem with balance is it assumes that the arguments of both sides are of equal value, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Clive Hamilton v. Paul Kelly: climate death match
Paul Kelly has seamlessly shifted from chief apologist for the Howard Government to the Rudd Government’s climate change approach, writes Clive Hamilton.
Middle ground government: Poznan and the ETS White Paper
The question shouldn’t be whether Australia leads the rest of the world, but how hard we beg for action, writes Bernard Keane.
Crikey Clarifier: Greening the economy
Why is what’s good for Finland bad for us? We asked
Remember the 2020 summit? Here’s what happened next …
Many of the ideas that emerged from the summit were valuable, even if at times the whole affair looked like a left-wing party, write Bernard Keane and Eleri Harris.
Mungo: On climate change and the Liberal party frog
The frog is well and truly in the pot and the water is getting steadily hotter. If we want to stop it from coming to the boil we have to act now. It’s Time, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Garnaut: the questions
The neglect of comparing the conditions of the biosphere under the respective scenarios constitutes a major omission, writes Dr Andrew Glikson.
Climate Change 2: Enviro groups need to talk dollars and cents
Suddenly we’re back talking economics, not the consequences for economic growth of unchecked climate change and the net economic benefits of addressing it, writes Bernard Keane.
The methane time bomb and the Wall St meltdown
People need leaders who will place the life and future of humans and other species ahead of the three-years election cycle, writes Dr Andrew Glikson.
Rudd to destroy the Great Barrier Reef? Bring it on!
I am in a no-lose position. Regardless of whether there is global warming, whether it is caused by man-made emissions, the truth is that nothing can or will be done about it, writes Peter Faris.
A target of 550 ppm CO2 is a recipe for disaster
Garnauts Final Reports Fateful Decisions and the uncharted brave new world of 550 ppm CO2 and + 3 degrees Celsius, Dr Andrew Glikson explains.
Garnaut focuses on stuff that might work
For Garnaut, the case for addressing climate change remains a conservative, economically cautious one, writes Bernard Keane.
Dismal logic: Garnaut at a glance
Ross Garnaut’s final report warns that Australia faces an even grimmer climate change future than previously estimated, writes Bernard Keane.
