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No nudging, please
Despite what politicians and senior bureaucrats may let on, governments are highly susceptible to the allure of policy fads. Federal Finance and...
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...
Conservative Meltdown: Right in the grip of a growing malaise
It's no understatement to say the Coalition is in the doldrums in Canberra and across much of the nation. But the crisis of conservatism is hardly...
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...
Going green is just another rinse in government washer
There's no better way to dress up your drab, colourless economic plan than calling it ''green''. The Victorian Government has been trying to create...
Haste makes waste in the carbon countdown
Countdown For Climate Change Vote is the banner on the ALP web site. It explains that only five days remain before Parliament's climate change...
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...
A Treasury trove of errors
We now have the OzCar scheme to add to the list of Labor's failed grand designs. But OzCar won't be remembered as another of the federal...
Glenn Stevens' high wire act on rates
The Reserve Bank of Australia has begun softening up the public for interest rate rises. Given that the official rate is at 3 per cent, it's not...