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Time for Investment-Centred Climate Policy?
Published at Crikey’s environment blog, Rooted. It’s time for the government and climate change advocates to stop obsessing over carbon pricing and get behind an investment-centred climate policy....
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Pricing Policy and Substitutes: To Gas or Not To Gas?
At the weekend, The Age reported that increased alcohol prices are driving many young people* to switch to the party drug ecstasy. A new phenomenon of young people ‘switching’ to the increasingly cheap...
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Grattan Institute: Focus on Effectiveness
The non-partisan think tank the Grattan Institute has published a new report that identifies improved teacher effectiveness as the key to achieving better educational outcomes for Australian students....
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Victorian Greens: Too Many Chiefs, Not Enough Indians?
This Saturday the state of Victoria goes to the polls. The Victorian Greens party were originally expected to mount a serious challenge to Labor in the inner-city seats of Melbourne, Richmond,...
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Call for New Walkley Award for Climate and Energy Journalism
Tonight in Melbourne, Australia’s leading journalists will gather for the annual Walkley Awards—the profession’s highest honour. Noting the absence of a Walkley that recognises excellence in...
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Top 5 Posts of 2010
Following the trend of the last several years, climate change will be a key political issue in the year 2011. The Gillard government’s Multi-Party Climate Change Committee and the quest for a...
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US-China Energy Trade Dispute Supports ‘New Sputnik’ Moment
Published by the US-based clean energy advocate, Americans for Energy Leadership. In an attempt to advance the “new Sputnik” narrative, the Obama administration filed a complaint with the World Trade...
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‘Buy American’ Solar Provision Highlights the Role of Military Procurement
Published by the US-based clean energy advocate, Americans for Energy Leadership. On the heels of filing a complaint with the WTO against China’s subsidies for its domestic wind turbine manufacturers,...
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Gillard Govt Changes Climate Pitch
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has reframed her government’s carbon pricing agenda in an attempt to tap into the chief concerns of the electorate. Rather than making the case for climate legislation with...
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Say Yes… To Better Climate Change Policy?
Crossposted by Crikey’s environment blog, Rooted. At the weekend, a coalition of environment groups and unions launched a television advertisement featuring the award-winning actress Cate Blanchett...
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