Recent publications
Recalculating the Impact of the Carbon Tax: How changes to global carbon accounting standards will wipe our household over-compensation
By the end of this year household carbon tax ‘over-compensation' will be wiped out by changes to the global carbon accounting rules used to calculate the environmental impact of greenhouse gases. The changes will: Increase Australia's...
A history of scientific alarms
Dr Kesten Green lists the 20 most unscientific scares. There is a long and dismal history of alarming forecasts that were literally too bad to be true. But many people believed these predictions that human actions would harm the environment and...
An unsustainable economic transformation: How Green groups are creating false foundations and restricting the Australian economy
An unsustainable economic transformation: How Green groups are creating false foundations and restricting the Australian economy. Released 7 November 2011.
An unsustainable economic transformation
An unsustainable economic transformation: How Green groups are creating false foundations and restricting the Australian economy. Released 7 November 2011.
Naked extortion? Environmental NGOs imposing involuntary regulations on consumers and business
Naked extortion? Environmental NGOs imposing [in]voluntary regulations on consumers and business
Green groups admit 'good cop/bad cop' collusion to push higher costs on businesses, consumers
Green groups admit 'good cop/bad cop' collusion to push higher costs on businesses, consumers
Green groups admit 'good cop/bad cop' collusion to push higher costs on businesses, consumers
‘Environmental groups have been caught admitting they collude to use Good Cop/Bad Cop strategies to push businesses to adopt expensive ‘voluntary' certification standards that increase costs to business and consumers', said, Tim...
Submission: To the exposure draft of the 'Illegal Logging Prohibition Bill 2011'
Submission: To the exposure draft of the 'Illegal Logging Prohibition Bill 2011'
Address to the Revolt Against the Carbon Tax
My focus is on the economic and political implications of the measures restraining carbon dioxide emissions. First, the outcome on the climate, if any, as a result of Australia taking action alone is negligible. Not only do we account for a...
Victorian Election Kills Carbon Tax
The prospects of Australia having a carbon tax are now virtually zero following the Victorian state election according to John Roskam, the executive director of the free market think tank, Institute of Public Affairs. 'Rising electricity...