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GST points the way for carbon tax
Ross Garnaut describes the dilemma of imposing a carbon tax on the trade-exposed emission-intensive industries as "truly dreadful problem". His...
Burden of a carbon tax
A carbon tax in the form of an emissions trading scheme (ETS) could be the best thing to happen to corporate Australia since the invention of...
Delusions of Grandeur in the Wake of Garnaut
Since the election of the Rudd Labor government last year, and now with the release of the Garnaut Climate Change Review's Draft Report last...
Prepare for dim, costly future
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong accused the Opposition of not knowing whether it was Arthur or Martha on climate change. As the realities of a...
Get real: nuclear the sane option
Last week in parliament, Kevin Rudd wheeled himself in to respond to a Dorothy Dixer on emissions trading. This allowed him to traverse the whole...
Horrendous price on the cards for greenhouse plan
The main game in emission policy awaits the Garnaut report and perhaps the "strategic review" of the Government's climate change policies being...
Pollies Cool on Warming Fixes
Last week the US Senate debated a 500-page global warming bill known as the Warner-Lieberman Cap-and-Trade bill. The Democrats knew it would likely...
Driving in two directions on fuel
Two things stand out about the Rudd era of Australian politics. First, there is the Prime Minister's love of slogans - "working families" and...
The alternative that dare not speak its name
Ross Garnaut issued his interim report on climate change in February and is due to issue a draft report next month. Conspicuously absent from the...
Opinions Clash at Climate Conference
I was recently in New York for the International Conference on Climate Change. The 500 delegates came from a great diversity of professions...