By Tony Wood, Grattan Institute
Carbon pricing has helped to destroy three political leaders – Malcolm Turnbull, Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard – since 2009. Why would a re-minted Prime Minister Rudd want to touch such a poisoned chalice in the short time he has to recapture the hearts and minds of the Australian electorate?.
By Tony Press, University of Tasmania
Dispatches from The Hague: Tony Press, CEO of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre at the University of Tasmania, is in The Hague for four weeks of hearings at the International Court of Justice. The case will decide.
Prof Paul Meredith, GCI, UQ[/caption]
26 June 2013: A shift from coal-fired to gas-fired power generation will not significantly lower carbon dioxide emissions, new research by the Global Change Institute at The University of Queensland has found. Energy economics researcher.
Unburnable carbon has been getting some attention in Australia since Bill McKibben toured Australia in June. He received considerable media coverage, at least by the ABC, including this 7 minute story on Lateline on 6 June 2013 entitled, Read more
By Brad Farrant, University of Western Australia; David Holmes, Monash University, and Mark G Edwards, University of Western Australia
Four months ago, the big media proprietors were fighting proposed federal government press reforms, arguing that “the press” needs freedom if it is to defend the public interest. But these arguments were raised.
By Kristian Handberg, Monash University
After a much-hyped return to the market in 2011, the shine has again worn off electric vehicles. High profile failures (such as the bankruptcy of charging infrastructure company Better Place) and poor sales of the vehicles themselves have bolstered the opinions of naysayers, who have variously referred.