Coalition would not shut Hazelwood, Abbott

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says Victoria's Hazelwood power station won't close under the coalition's climate policy and Labor will drop its carbon tax if public protest is strong enough. Mr Abbott has met with workers at Hazelwood Power Station in ...
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Windsor loyal to doomed Gillard

Speaking to the Herald from London yesterday, where he is on a fact-finding trip on climate change policy, Mr Windsor did not resile from comments he made to Tamworth radio station 2TM on Monday, when he asserted the petrol exemptions he won as part of ...
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Warning of pain in lumber region

''We are deeply concerned that climate change policy will be based on assertions not supported by sound analysis or scientific evidence,'' the coalition said. The signatories included academics such as the Professor Emeritus of Forest Science at the ...
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Better to pay the carbon price now

Three months ago, BusinessDay polled the top 50 Australian companies on their view of climate policy. Even though any meaningful policy response would be against the immediate interests of every company, most who responded realised the inevitability of ...
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Sydney Morning Herald

Carbon numbers a line-ball call

Three months ago, BusinessDay, polled the top 50 Australian companies over their view on climate policy. Stripping out the fence-sitting and the meaningless corporate rhetoric, only three companies were openly hostile to a carbon tax. ...
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Temperatures rise at carbon rally

It was billed as a public forum, but the shadow treasurer's carbon tax town hall meeting played out more like a political rally against the federal government's proposed climate change policy. Almost all questions posed to Joe Hockey this morning by ...
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Against the odds, a nation warms to a policy

The emissions scheme is an imperfect, but solid foundation for long-term climate policy. EVERY once in a while Australia manages big-picture economic reform. The climate policy package is one of those occasions. It will help get change under way ...
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Gillard makes tentative steps towards a greener, cleaner future

Perhaps the most significant innovation is the creation of a Climate Change Authority, to be run by former Reserve Bank chairman Bernie Fraser. Helped by a board of nine economics, investment and climate policy experts, Fraser will make annual ...
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Climate policy turning politics upside down

Again, climate change policy is turning the norm of politics on its head. In a complete reversal of the usual instinct to run away from anything the public doesn't like, this Parliament has strengthened its resolve on the issue even as it has become ...
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Debating in an alternative universe

Photo: Alex Ellinghausen TONY Abbott is not often accused of being interested in climate policy, but he nailed it with this thought yesterday: a carbon tax will damage the coal industry. Forcing large industry to pay for carbon dioxide emissions should ...
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