Tim Flannery: the divisive Akubra-wearing palaeontologistTim Flannery has perhaps the most unenviable job in the country: explaining to the Australian public why they should pay for pollution before the rest of the world, writes Tom Cowie.
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Coba Point residents back Flannery in 2GB spat
Residents of the Sydney riverside retreat of Coba Point have backed environmentalist Tim Flannery in his bitter climate spat with 2GB presenter Ray Hadley and a dissenting neighbour David.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Morals take back seat when it comes to taking political advantage
Crikey readers have their say.
Ray Hadley v Tim Flannery … and ‘David’ the neighbour
High-rating 2GB presenter Ray Hadley has unloaded again on Crikey and Tim Flannery over an allegation he hatched a plot with one of his neighbours to expose him as a climate change hypocrite.
Hadley v Flannery: who’s telling the truth?
Ray Hadley blasted Tim Flannery and Crikey over claims the 2GB host arranged a call to his program that sparked a flurry of criticism over his waterfront property. But Flannery is standing by his story.
Listen to Ray Hadley’s Tim Flannery/Crikey spray
Ray Hadley let fly today on his 2GB show over claims made by Tim Flannery in the latest Quarterly Essay — and republished by Crikey yesterday — that a caller who revealed details about Flannery’s house knew Hadley. And on Thursday morning, Hadley had another crack on his 2GB show:
Flannery: Hadley concocted story on my waterside home
Of all the responses to Robert Manne’s Quarterly Essay on The Australian it is the letter from Tim Flannery published in the latest edition that adds the juiciest grist to the mill.
Media briefs: No privacy at The Oz … Nine’s 2012 season ‘excitment’ …
The Australian caught out on privacy … “excitment” at Nine for 2012 season … front page of the day … the Department of Corrections …
Political snippets: All key inflation indicators point downwards
The inflationary crisis seems to have passed Australia by with the key measurements that influence the Reserve Bank when it comes to fixing interest rates all pointing downwards.
The 7PM Project and a dose of climate misinfotainment
The 7PM Project’s producers went looking for conflict and argument and in so doing, failed its audience, writes journalist Graham Readfearn.
Global warming over 1000 years: why Flannery is correct
Tim Flannery is right in his summing up of global warming, writes Dr Andrew Glikson, earth and paleoclimate scientist at the ANU.
Tony Abbott misrepresents Tim Flannery
The latest idiotic noisemaking from Tony Abbott has the alternative PM misrepresenting the words of Professor Tim Flannery. Will the media call him on it? asks Jeremy Sear.
The Long View: communicating the science honestly
It’s the Gillard versus Abbott drawcard event. The debate over carbon price legislation is a decisive battle in Australia’s climate policy war, writes author David Spratt.
Come in Spinner: Gillard’s carbon price campaign outguns Rudd’s
If Kevin Rudd had approached his mining tax, and the emissions trading system, in the way Julia Gillard is approaching the carbon tax, he might still be Prime Minister.
murray darling Come in Spinner: What the Basin Authority should have done
The frightening thing about the Murray-Darling Basin Authority’s current efforts is that they apparently spent about $60 million getting to where they are while ignoring almost every lesson about how to undertake consultation.
Crikey Says: Meet the political vacuum on climate change
Tim Flannery has urged people to become more politically active with climate change. Let’s take a look at what politicians are filling the vacuum for the Politics of Climate Change panel.
Video of the Day: Flannery at the Deakins
Tim Flannery delivers a cracking keynote address for the Alfred Deakins Lectures 2010, a series of talks at the Wheeler Centre discussing the climate change challenge.
Flannery: Never trust a Liberal
Don’t trust a word the Liberal Party says on climate change, says Tim Flannery. It has betrayed the trust of voters too many times on the issue, and doesn’t deserve another chance.
50 years of TIME in Australia (and a few less-important islands, too)
TIME magazine is celebrating 50 years of publication in Australia (well, the “South Pacific”, but it pretty much ignores everyone else), including a tribute to its pick of most influential Aussies of the last five decades: Robert Menzies, Germaine Greer, Victor Chang, Eddie Mabo, and Tim Flannery.
Flannery’s new gig is far out
Environmentalist Tim Flannery has come under fire after accepting a role as Richard Branson’s “environmental consultant” on green space travel.
Gossip Queen mags are mere ants
To Tim Flannery, beacons of journalism like New Idea and Woman's Day resemble nothing more than a certain type of ant, writes Kevin Childs.
Flannery: Garnaut has made a good first step
Speaking exclusively to Crikey, Tim Flannery has solid praise for the emissions targets set today by Ross Garnaut, but says the game could change drastically in as little as five years from now.
