Recent publications
Greens Greg Barber refuses to rule out $500 carbon tax
Joy 94.9'S Rainbow Report @ 12.49pm, Friday 20th May 2011 Rainbow Report host, Doug Pollard: On the line we have Greg Barber who is one of the elected Greens in the Upper House of the Victorian State Parliament representing the northern...
Addressing the facts on climate change and energy
A response to an internal ALP strategy paper.
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...
IPA applauds Gillard honesty: carbon tax will send electricity prices soaring, honesty now needed on price of renewables
'The Institute of Public Affairs congratulates Julia Gillard's honesty today when she admitted that a carbon tax would send electricity prices soaring', said Director of Climate Change Policy, Tim Wilson. In her press conference today announcing...
People are not buying the climate scare
Only a third of Australians think the world is warming and human carbon dioxide emissions are to blame, according to a Galaxy poll commissioned by the Institute of Public Affairs.
Climate Change Polling
Galaxy Climate Change Polling
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...
Turning up the heat on climate change alarmists
In February this year, Penny Wong, the then climate change minister said: ‘Globally, 14 of the 15 warmest years on record occurred between 1995 and 2009' and she argued that the Bureau of Meteorology had concluded that ‘2009 was the...
Submission to the Senate Select Committee on the Scrutiny of New Taxes: Minerals Taxes & Carbon Taxes
A letter from Kelvin Thomson MP
A letter from Kelvin Thomson MP on the politics of climate change.