cleverly might it have been orchestrated? Step one: make Rudd dump the emissions trading scheme (ETS). Step two: dump Rudd for dumping the ETS. Had that been the tactic all along? The Greens were major players, of course; they had denied Rudd his ETS, only to agree to a weaker version under Gillard. They could have had ...

The Monthly - Rhys Muldoon - 2012-03-01 10:51 - 12 comments - 0 attachments

of attack dogs – Andrew Bolt, Piers Akerman, Miranda Devine, Tim Blair et hoc genus emerge from ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-03-07 15:28 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(Annabel Crabb, Carbon tax, ETS, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott, The Drum) ...

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in 2009 and, with it, Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership. His opposition to the ETS, and later the carbon tax, ... ‘grassroots’ campaign – also known as ‘astro-turfing’ – against the ETS. Their efforts persuaded Liberal MPs to revolt against Turnbull, killing the ETS and propelling Abbott into leadership. Some of his moderate ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

of anthropogenic climate change.  In 2009 Doran et al in EOS, The Transactions of the American Geophysical ... in PNAS, The Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences of the United States , Anderegg et ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-10-31 14:21 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

wanted to have it both ways – by calling himself a Liberal while pushing for Labor’s ETS. Turnbull wasn’t ...

The Monthly - George Megalogenis - 2011-12-01 15:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

of the Racial Discrimination Act (Eatock et al).  My story has a curious ending. When the erstwhile ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-10-24 09:45 - 28 comments - 0 attachments

(Martin Amis, Peter Porter, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes et al .). Hitchens says the tradition began ...

The Monthly - Paola Totaro - 2011-10-11 11:33 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

(Carbon tax, Climate Change, ETS, National Times) ...

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(Carbon abatement schemes, Climate Change, ETS, Greenhouse gas emissions, The Age) ...

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and five other shadow cabinet members) to support Mr Rudd’s ETS, the party room clearly rejected it. The majority of the party room was not persuaded that we should change our policy of not enacting an ETS until after the Copenhagen conference and the outcome of the US Congress consideration of an ETS. The right ...

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for Rudd”. But the truce came too late for Rudd. His ETS backdown that April sent his popularity ... on the ETS, it destroyed his coven-ant with the electorate.” Still, he argues, “the government should have ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2011-09-03 12:03 - 3 comments - 0 attachments

backdown on the emission trading scheme (ETS) legislation lifted the Green vote in gentrified electorates ... of the ETS were so devastating. These decisions confirmed the Opposition’s attack-line that he was “all talk, ... or compensation-free ETS, disadvantage both producers and consumers. Consequently, affiliated unions representing ...

The Monthly - Mark Latham - 2010-11-04 12:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Nation Reviewed, SOCIETY, Asylum Seekers, Climate Change, Emissions trading, ETS, Nuclear, Tony Abbott) ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-03-08 10:00 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

volte-face on the ETS, under intense pressure from Arbib and his supporters, was the critical turning point ... of the ETS. As with Caesar, Rudd’s personal weaknesses and failings were instrumental in his fall, but he ... during which he heaped contempt on the unelected faction leaders of the ALP. Et tu, Arbib? Little ...

The Monthly - Mark Aarons - 2012-02-15 15:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

the prospect of Rudd calling a double-dissolution election on an emissions trading scheme (ETS) was regarded ... this in the electorate’s mind. The failure of the ETS and the surprising resurgence of the Liberal–National Coalition point ... nation-building prime minister wouldn’t have squandered the opportunity to define the ETS as a deep structural ...

The Monthly - Tim Soutphommasane - 2010-05-06 16:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Rudd’s ETS Backflip Tim Flannery Kevin Rudd’s decision to defer his emissions trading bill until 2012 represents an abrupt and dramatic policy reversal, the significance of which, both nationally ...

The Monthly - Tim Flannery - 2010-07-19 10:21 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

such as a carbon tax dressed up as an emissions trading scheme (ETS) – on which the minor partner simply could not, ... to the Nationals – to support his decision to negotiate with the government over the ETS or to remove him ... the urban fringe “that just fervently disagrees with the ETS”. Describing the scheme variously ...

The Monthly - John Birmingham - 2010-05-20 15:26 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

by the backflip on the ETS but not prepared to vote Liberal. * It is early on Sunday morning, and Maxine ...

The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2010-07-01 14:09 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

him a troglodyte. But Abbott is much more complicated than those labels suggest. His defeat of the ETS ... to the Holocaust. But Abbott did tap into a large group of Australians who didn’t understand the ETS and, because ... the ETS battle for the moment. I hear the bell ringing for the start of round two. Published ...

The Monthly - Louis Nowra - 2012-02-15 15:45 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

are being created. Once an ETS is in place, I suspect the current phase of the energy industry protesting ... POLITICS, WORLD, Australian Scientists, China, Climate Change, Ecology, ETS, Global Warming, Literature, ...

The Monthly - Peter Doherty - 2010-02-15 08:56 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

by the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris. There is no such thing as Australian couture. And nor should ...

The Monthly - Clare Press - 2010-09-20 14:18 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

with inalienable rights, et cetera – and commented, “These truths are ... self-evident, are they not?” Jefferson ...

The Monthly - Geoffrey Robertson - 2010-04-08 14:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

magazine he and two friends founded in the spirit of EE Cummings. Although Et Cetera fell far short ... position for his antiwar campaigning ..." Et cetera. "But what about the Nobel Prize!" ...

The Monthly - Drusilla Modjeska - 2010-05-22 16:05 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

to "looking for better company" than the crude agitprop of The O'Reilly Factor et al. A strange ...

The Monthly - Gideon Haigh - 2010-05-22 16:00 - 0 comments - 0 attachments