Independents crucial to breaking climate deadlock
Australia’s clean energy industry urges Federal Independent MPs to back whichever party will deliver a carbon price as soon as possible and provide the optimal conditions for investment in renewable energy.
Click here for full storyINDEPENDENT MP Tony Windsor wants the next government to implement policies that will encourage ethanol use in cars.
Click here for full storyCLIVE Hamilton's latest foray into the climate debate ("MPs' obligation is to the planet", Commentary, 28-29/8) reinforces the need for better media scrutiny of dogmatic calls for "urgent action" to reduce carbon emissions which have, for two electoral cycles now, dominated political debate beyond all reason.
Click here for full storyDespite the drought, few in the rural region of Guyra support the Greens, fearing tax increases if climate change rules the national agenda.
Click here for full storyIt seems, on the face of it, a particularly stupid question - given we don't yet know who won this federal election. And given the glacier-like pace of negotiations between the major parties and the independents and Greens, history may eventually describe this poll as the 2010-2011 election.
Click here for full storyHopes surged this week that a swing to the Greens will result in meaningful action on climate change in the new Parliament. On the Climate Spectator website, Fiona Wain, the head of the Environment Business Australia think tank, urged the crossbenchers to grasp the "unprecedented opportunity in their hands - to help re-attract investment lost by the Rudd-Gillard deferral of putting a price on carbon".
Click here for full storyPlanning processes for renewable energy projects will be streamlined with Victorian councils receiving support to administer wind farm permits, the State Government has announced.
Click here for full storyThree independent and one Green MP who could decide the make-up of Australia's next government will hold their first meeting on Tuesday to discuss whether to back Labor or the conservative opposition.
Click here for full storyAustralia could accelerate action on climate change, possibly resurrecting an emissions trading scheme, after independent and Greens MPs won the balance of power in elections that left a hung parliament.
Click here for full storyFederal officials are trying to secure $400,000 for the city of Reedsport. They say the funding will increase the likelihood that proposed wave energy projects will bring jobs to the South Coast by next year. Energy developers and government officials hope demand for wave-generated electricity will make Oregon’s coast home to a new industry.
Click here for full storyIndependent MP Rob Oakeshott says an emissions trading scheme should be a key policy of any government he and the other crossbenchers will help to form.
Click here for full storyBUSINESS believes a hung parliament and the Greens holding the Senate balance of power could cause uncertainty and hit economic reform.
Click here for full storyLabor and the Coalition justify their weak policies on climate change and pollution by arguing that they do not want Australia to move too far ahead of other countries. The truth is that their policies are already falling behind China and other major emitters.
Click here for full storyCLIMATE change, education and immigration are the top three political issues Australians seek on the internet, new research reveals.
Click here for full storyClimate change is the most popular search engine query election issue, followed by education then immigration, according to Experian Hitwis
Click here for full storyA new survey of Australian politicians shows a clear majority believe climate change is happening, but many appear to be unsure about some of its consequences.
Click here for full storyFEDERAL opposition leader Tony Abbott has begun a one day visit to Perth with a $418.3 million funding commitment for the resources and energy sector.
Click here for full storyThe policy agenda on climate change of the two major parties is dominated by two disturbing trends. The Coalition has become more resolute in its refusal to consider a carbon price and the ALP has outsourced policy leadership to consensus builders within a citizen's assembly.
Click here for full storyA poll has found climate change is a big issue in voters' minds, as Labor hastily reassesses its climate policy before election day.
Click here for full storyTHE climate change morass, with the two major political parties refusing to tackle the issue, will hurt business and the economy. And business is beginning to demand more than an ad hoc approach that will lead to market failures.
Click here for full storyAfter supposedly abandoning the much-touted cap-and-trade scheme due to a lack of support, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced a scaled-back $15 billion energy bill that supporters hope will muster enough votes. But it’s already coming under attack from all angles, and critics are warning that the carbon regime could still be in the cards.
Click here for full storyJohn F. Kennedy, in the wake of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, once said that "victory has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan." Not so climate change legislation, which has now failed in both the US Congress and the Australian Senate.
Click here for full storyAustralia’s government will set up a citizen’s assembly to build consensus on putting a price on carbon and will today outline plans on renewable energy and power generation, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said.
Click here for full storyTHE Victorian government will present itself as the national leader in tackling climate change by pledging to cut the state's greenhouse gas emissions by at least a fifth over the next decade.
Click here for full storyLABOR has promised business $1 billion in tax breaks on investments in energy-saving measures for commercial building under its latest climate change election promise.
Click here for full storyThe Australian Labor party’s climate protection policies will pave the way for creating limits on carbon emissions, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said.
Click here for full storyWhen I first heard on Thursday that Senate Democrats were abandoning the effort to pass an energy/climate bill that would begin to cap greenhouse gases that cause global warming and promote renewable energy that could diminish our addiction to oil ...
Click here for full storyFederal Opposition leader Tony Abbott has vowed to look after the interests of the resources industry during a whistlestop trip to the West Australian mining town of Kalgoorlie.
Click here for full storyThe Gillard government has been accused of leaving its climate change policy to a ''giant focus group'' and proposing pointless power station regulations that would not stop new coal-fired plants being built.
Click here for full storyAustralia won't be able to meet its targets for reducing carbon gas emissions without charging polluters, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Friday as she announced her government's climate change policy ahead of elections next month.
Click here for full storyA year and a half after President Barack Obama breathed new life into global talks on a climate treaty, the United States is back in a familiar role -- the holdout.
Click here for full storyThe Greens want to completely replace Australia's reliance on coal with renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.
Click here for full storyBARACK Obama's push for bold climate change legislation to curb US carbon emissions has been abandoned, after leaders of his Democratic Party accepted they lacked enough votes in the Senate.
Click here for full storyThe Greens want to completely replace Australia's reliance on coal with renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.
Greens Senator Christine Milne said yesterday: “Australia can harness our tremendous resources of the sun, wind, ocean, Earth and human ingenuity to replace our reliance on coal with 100 per cent renewable energy within decades."
Senator Milne said this could be achieved by 2030 with the right preparation and infrastructure
Click here for full storyAUSTRALIA’S renewable energy industry was reeling yesterday after discovering a $520million budget cut to low-emissions technology in the fine print of Julia Gillard’s ‘‘cash-for-clunkers’’ announcement.
Ms Gillard said that owners of pre-1995 vehicles will be able to claim $2000 from January 1 next year to upgrade to cleaner cars.
Click here for full storyTHE Coalition, Greens and a chorus of economists and environmental groups have condemned Labor's new climate change policy.
Click here for full storyAustralia's prime minister Julia Gillard has unveiled a revised climate change policy, promising tougher standards for new power stations.
Click here for full storyAS CROCODILE Dundee might say if he took to the stump: ''That's not a policy, this is a policy.'' Prime Minister Julia Gillard's exercise in small-target politics in Brisbane yesterday confirmed both major parties are missing in action on climate this election.
Click here for full storyFederal Labor's plan to connect more green energy to the nation's electricity grid is the best possible news for South Australia, Premier Mike Rann says.
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