People & associates
Alan Moran
Energy costs, labour power block road to productivity
A recent AcilTasman report shows Australia's productivity performance has slowed, with Victoria, post-2005, collecting the wooden spoon. One cause...
Suffocating the economy one tax at a time
If implemented, Julia Gillard's proposed carbon price starting at $23 per tonne will push us closer to economic stagnation. If the Government...
Gillard is no Hawke or Keating: in economic policy or market economics
Julia Gillard has adopted a polar extreme policy approach to the Hawke-Keating Governments. The ALP regained power in 1983 on the back of Bob...
Subsidising solar power is just plain crazy
A 100-megawatt solar power station is planned for Mildura. And last weekend Energy Minister Martin Ferguson announced funding for two new projects,...
Australia's emission levels are overstated
In a chapter of a recentIy published Anthology, "Energy, Sustainability and the Environment" edited by F.P. Sioshansi, I observed that...
Winning the war against electricity
Writing on The Drum last week, Jane Shaw saw the carbon tax as a Trinity comprising an ideological touchstone for the Greens, a political weapon...
Hazelwood decision is a victory for common sense
THE Commonwealth Government is flooding the media with climate change and carbon tax reports from taxpayer-financed scientists and other...
We emit less CO2 than Combet gives us credit for
On April 13, Climate Change Minister Greg Combet's spin for a carbon tax pushed new frontiers in the art of being economical with the truth. He...
Power rules steal from state
SENSIBLY, the Australian Industry Group has recommended the Queensland Government privatise its $2 billion electricity transmission business,...
Mismanaging water policy can drain a budget
FOLLOWING the report into state finances by an independent committee, we are seeing the hollowness of the previous Victorian government's claim to...