Treasury’s advocacy of a CO2 tax
One thing on which I agree with Julia Gillard is the poor quality of many journalists’ analysis of her proposals. But when you cram journalists with no...
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The “clean energy” hustle
Some aspects of the Prime Minister’s advocacy for her coal tax are, at best, misleading: a wedge for the much greater costs implied by the Labor/Greens ag...
Prices to grow 20 percent faster
Among the slogans that the Labor/Greens alliance will pound out over the next few weeks is that their coal tax is “low cost.” They don’t seem to understand th...
Australia’s trade outlook is strong
By 2030 China, especially, dramatically increases its share of world imports of agriculture, fossil fuels and services, according to the World Bank...
Reading on climate
Debate about global warming is grubby because there are so many un-acknowledged private agendas running just below the surface. Many participants in ...
Let’s end WTO’s Doha agony
Just in … some old news from Geneva: "The WTO's week-long "stocktaking" of the Doha Round trade talks ended on Friday with a whimper, not a bang. The mu...
Simple deductions about climate change
The UK Met Office (which has been unable to predict British weather recently) now claims to be certain about climate. "The fingerprint of human influence has b...