Turnbull’s Innovation – a rebranding of the same old pocketful of promises
Malcolm Turnbull’s ‘Innovation! Package‘, turns out to be another boost to small business and nothing to do with innovation at all. It is another conjuring […]
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China illustrates the true meaning of Direct Action on climate
By Dr Anthony Horton With 37 days to go until the Paris Climate Change conference in December, a report released by the Paulson Institute in […]
Has anything changed? Not judging by the comments
While many Australians, and no doubt the rest of the world, are still breathing a collective sigh of relief at the deposal of Tony Abbott, […]
Australia’s $234 billion climate gamble
By Dr Anthony Horton As of last year, China and the US were first and third on the list of Australia’s trading partners. Australian trade […]
Labor’s Asylum Seeker Policy Should Be A Seven Point Star!
“I’m not in favour of changing the flag, I’ve got to say. Although I have to say that if the Commonwealth star was to be a […]
Words are cheap, but Direct Action sure isn’t.
In an interview on Lateline in October last year, Greg Hunt said that the carbon price “doesn’t work”, “doesn’t do the job” and is “a […]
Axing the taxes equates to self harm
I am trying to understand why we are repealing the carbon and mining taxes. “The carbon tax is a $7.6 billion dollar hit on the […]
Solving the real problems
We have a budget problem. It’s not a budget emergency. Everyone agrees about that… at least, everyone who understands about national finance and economics, which […]
The truth about the ‘carbon tax’
Firstly, let’s remember that from June 2007 to December 2012, before the introduction of carbon pricing, average electricity prices rose by 70 per cent, so the […]
What’s there to crow about?
Tony Abbott is gleefully crowing about “100+ days without a boat”. What Mr Abbott seems oblivious to is that he has closed yet another door […]
The Peter Principle
The Peter Principle suggests that people will tend to be promoted until they reach their “position of incompetence”, and that is exactly what we are […]
An act of betrayal
Before the introduction of carbon pricing Tony Abbott claimed that the price of petrol would go up by 6.5c per litre. It actually went down […]
Could they?
Next week, the 19th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC and the 9th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as […]
What do we do now?
So it’s over; the Coalition has triumphed in the contest of ideas and will (eventually, one hopes) form a government. Tony Abbott has been described […]