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Following on from yesterday’s post on the New Zealand ETS that, according to PM John Key, is “working”, The Australian today reports that our neighbour across the ditch is actually scaling ...

https://australianclimatemadness.com/2011/06/21/kiwis-not-so-dumb-scaling-back-ets-already/

Hmm. “Worked” in what sense, John? Added costs to every business in New Zealand? Check. Raised electricity prices for every Kiwi in the land? Double Check-a-rooney. Made everything that they ...

https://australianclimatemadness.com/2011/06/20/new-zealand-climate-madness-pm-john-key-says-our-ets-worked/

Earlier in the week we had the government plugging the same old line: “Australia is falling behind other countries and we need to catch up – and by the way, here’s a Productivity Commission...

https://australianclimatemadness.com/2011/06/17/world-of-sham-carbon-policies-exposed/

That would be the same Gillard and Swan who are now trying to railroad through a carbon tax in breach of an explicit pre-election promise not to. To discover this fact, all The Australian had to ...

https://australianclimatemadness.com/2011/04/06/gillard-and-swan-wanted-to-abandon-ets/

Kevin Rudd was in good form on Q & A last night, breaching cabinet confidentiality to reveal that senior Labor figures were against an ETS, and leaving open the possibility (heaven forbid) of ano...

https://australianclimatemadness.com/2011/04/05/labor-nightmare-the-return-of-rudd/

Any ETS is ripe for fraud and corruption. In December 2009, ACM reported that fraudsters had pocketed an eye-popping €5bn from the European ETS, so it’s little surprise when stories like this...

https://australianclimatemadness.com/2010/12/30/denmarks-ets-scam/

China and India have no intention of strangling their economic growth with emissions reductions, the US won’t be enacting climate legislation anytime soon, but plucky little Australia, with its...

https://australianclimatemadness.com/2010/12/29/japan-shelves-ets-australia-should-do-the-same/

It will be down to a bunch of independent MPs to determine whether Julia Gillard or Tony Abbott forms the next Australian government, with both the major parties unable to command an overall majo...

https://australianclimatemadness.com/2010/08/23/election-2010-climate-role-in-choosing-new-government/

Does Labor want an ETS or not? Flip a coin – the answer you get will be about as reliable as asking Joolya, who also doesn’t want to admit to wanting a carbon tax or ETS. Labor are in disarra...

https://australianclimatemadness.com/2010/08/20/labor-all-over-the-place-on-climate/

There’s a surprise – not. Finally climate crawls back onto the electoral agenda again, as Joolya reveals her desire for an ETS or carbon tax: Prime Minister Julia Gillard has left open the do...

https://australianclimatemadness.com/2010/08/19/shock-gillard-open-to-carbon-tax/