People & associates
Tom Switzer
Climate of emissions trading cools
We all know both Labor and the Coalition have jettisoned plans to implement an emissions trading scheme to tame climate change. But Australia is...
Despite the right turn, Gillard is no Iron Lady
When Kevin Rudd won the 2007 election, conventional wisdom suggested Labor's victory would mark a political realignment in Australia. Not only did...
Who is Kevin Rudd? No one really knows
At the height of the 1956 US presidential election, Adlai Stevenson said of Richard Nixon: "This is a man of many masks. Who can say they have seen...
Is there a plan B for the ETS?
F. Scott Fitzgerald once remarked: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time,...
Chance to combat climate change through policy has come and gone
On the ABC1's 7.30 Report last week, Barack Obama reiterated his belief that putting a price on carbon was the best way to reduce greenhouse gas...
Climate law: what's in it for the US?
After the passage of his sweeping healthcare reforms, Barack Obama is turning his sights to combating global warming. This month, the US Senate is...
The politics of climate change is changing
When I say the climate is changing, I do not mean, as many contributors to this site do, that anthropogenic global warming is destroying the...
Our Ted Heath
For more than a decade, Malcolm Fraser has won plaudits from everyone: everyone except those who respect John Howard, that is, which is to say a...
Our Nixonian PM
‘At one time or another, he had espoused almost every worthy principle, often repeatedly,' Newsweek once observed of Richard Nixon....
Obama a victim as Americans struggle to accept a lesser role
If a week is a long time in politics, then a year is an eternity. Twelve months ago, Barack Obama's presidential inauguration completed a political...