Alan Kohler, of Business Spectator fame, wrote yesterday in Crikey:
Against all expectations, Tony Abbott and Greg Hunt have actually come up with a clever climate change policy, and certainly one that will change the debate in Australia.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will now have to quickly do a deal with the Greens to get a government [...]
Tag Archives: ETS
Alan Kohler shows he doesn’t know about politics
Explaining cap and trade
An interesting little video from the creators of the Story of Stuff, this has an explanation of how “cap and trade” (emissions trading) works, and the major pitfalls with the system.
Unfortunately, the video is one of those preachy, moralising videos that is full of criticisms but no solutions. The closest it comes is proposing a [...]
Media beat up, part I
I recently had a debate with a friend about new media versus old media. One of the points I made was that journalists at major newspapers and TV stations are just as likely as PR spin doctors and politicians to be pushing a line. Furthermore, I argued that journalists “beat up” stories to get copy [...]
Willful ignorance or straw man
Alex Robson from Concept Economics has not bothered to read the Australia Institute paper into the CPRS emissions floor (pdf link). Amazingly, his uninformed and un-researched tirade against environmentalists was published in The Australian today.
Mr Robson writes:
Clearly, if the number of permits in circulation could never fall, then the Australia Institute view would be correct: [...]
We need strong action on emissions trading
The Garnaut report released earlier this year made the case for a robust emissions trading scheme. If Australia is to combat climate change, Federal Labor needs to take immediate action to reduce the amount of carbon put into the atmosphere.
As activists, we have a duty to lobby senior Ministers in parliament to do everything they [...]
- Alan Kohler shows he doesn’t know about politics
- No Clean Feed campaign needs to drop their “censorship” obsession
- Seven ways for unions to use Twitter
- QLD Liberal National Party plagiarise
- Why unions should embrace social media
- Two tips for rank and file union members to lobby members of parliament
- Happy Women’s Day
- Should you block ads on the Internet?
- Website outage now fixed
- Don’t prosecute the messenger
-
LaborHood: I built a site for my members of my Local that is ...
-
Alexander White: It's true - I think a lot of people give up bl...
-
-
-
Recent Comments