Nuclear power deserves a level playing field
A nuclear engineer makes the case that nuclear power plants are important resources and should receive economic rewards for providing steady supplies of carbon-free electricity.
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The economic case for the mining industry to support carbon taxation
Simple economic modelling shows the mining industry would benefit from a carbon tax.
The carbon tax package
The Australian government announced on 10 July it would introduce a carbon tax at $23 a tonne in July 2012, rising 2.5% annually plus inflation and moving to a market-based emissions trading scheme in…
The view from abroad on a year of Abbott’s muscular conservatism
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s government was sworn in just over one year ago, making this an opportune moment to review its performance from an international perspective. Abbott and his Canadian…
For this generation, and the next, it’s time to bring back the carbon tax
Discouraging carbon emissions via a carbon tax could deliver the government much needed revenue.
We got fed a line but carbon tax compo wasn’t ‘swallowed’ by pokies
Like many policy issues in Australia, the public debate and media coverage on the relationship between government payments and spending at electronic gaming machines or ‘pokies’ is sensationalist and exaggerated…
The ethics of climate change: what we owe people – and the rest of the planet
A narrow debate of what countries should pay to respond to climate change obscures a bigger moral discussion that touches on economics, ethics and people’s relationship to the natural world.
I helped balance the federal budget in the 1990s – here’s just how hard it will be for the GOP to achieve that same rare feat
House Speaker McCarthy wants to put the US on a path to a balanced budget as debt ceiling negotiations begin with President Biden. Here’s why it won’t be easy to repeat what Bill Clinton accomplished.
Taxes out, subsidies in: Australia and the US are passing major climate bills – without taxing carbon
Climate bills in Australia and the US promise progress without carbon taxes or markets. Here’s why.
To cut more emissions, a carbon tax needs to raise less revenue
Carbon (emissions) taxes have proved unpalatable world-wide, compared to (carbon) emissions trading schemes. But taxes give stable carbon prices while prices in emissions trading schemes yo-yo, plunge…
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