Emissions trading: a pollution and profits bonanza
Labor’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme is about profits for the polluters, not cutting greenhouse gas emissions, Liz Ross argues in the latest edition of Socialist Alternative. Rudd’s done it...
View ArticleFollow the Maldives Kevin
The Maldives is going carbon-neutral in the next ten years. The 385,000 people who live on 200 of the 1200 islands that make up the nation will meet all their energy needs from green sources such as...
View ArticleReal tax reform: a love letter to Ken Henry
Dear Ken I am pleased to be able to make a submission to your Inquiry into Australia’s Future Tax System. We live in a society divided into classes. The exploitative capital accumulation system means...
View ArticleThe Minerals Council: mining bullshit
‘ETS means 23,500 mining jobs will go.’ So screamed the headlines. And so said the Minerals Council of Australia. They commissioned research which ‘proved’ that Kevin Rudd’s pathetic 5 percent...
View ArticleGreens: trust us, not Rudd
The Greens have proposed amendments to the Rudd Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme which expose Labor for the environmental hypocrites they are. The Greens would replace the ALP’s...
View ArticleThe battlers’ buffer or the battlers’ bluffer?
So what is all this talk about a battler’s buffer for the carbon tax? Small details like the actual carbon price and the amount of the compensation could be weeks away. But the Gillard Government’s...
View ArticleThe Greens’ renewable energy fantasies go up in smoke
Greg Combet announced on Tuesday that the Labor Government would abandon a floor price of $15 for the Emissions Trading Scheme scheduled to begin on 1 July 2015. That is the day earmarked for the...
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Labor and the carbon tax: will they or won’t they?
I live in Canberra, a supposedly a left wing town. It is more the town of comfortable middle class leftism than working class struggle, although the Liberals’ threat to get rid of 12000 public...
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