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Off target
The 20 per cent Renewable Energy Target (RET), passed in the Senate yesterday, represents a triumph for vested interests in creating negative...
Power play distorts reality
Apparently Australia has just got a brand new $28 billion industry. It's in renewable energy. Media outlets have breathlessly reported that...
The great CPRS green jobs con
The Senate has rejected the Rudd government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme today. By all accounts it will be be reintroduced and then passed...
Political godsend
Conventional wisdom says the federal Opposition is out of wriggle room on the emissions trading scheme. Malcolm Turnbull, the argument goes, has no...
Green jobs subtract value
One justification being given for the government's emissions trading bill is that it will provide tens of thousands of new "green jobs". Our...
Softly, softly
The goal of international agreements being considered on climate change is to stabilise the world's human-caused carbon dioxide emissions. This...