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Carbon cost: reflecting upon the repeal

Carbon cost: reflecting upon the repeal

The carbon tax. Briefly here; now it is gone. On Thursday, with a motley crew of new crossbenchers finally pulled into line, Tony Abbott achieved the act that has fundamentally driven his rise from an outlying frontbencher to Prime Minister over the past five years. The repeal of Labor’s

A smaller carbon footprint for the digital citizen

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A smaller carbon footprint for the digital citizen

Having retrospectively decided to write a series on climate change, four weeks after part one of my supposed ‘series’ appeared, here is the third installment exploring the interplay between climate and economics – more specifically, all of my articles look at how to change climate change without really changing climate change.

The Carbon Tax: Tony Abbott’s Ticking Time Bomb

The Carbon Tax: Tony Abbott’s Ticking Time Bomb

On the 9th July 2010, Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the Government’s intention to introduce a ‘carbon tax’ in order to put a price on pollution and thereby give firms an incentive to reduce carbon emissions. The carbon tax passed the House of Representatives and the Senate on the