India
India's energy needs
Julie Bishop It is not hard to be overwhelmed by the scale of the development challenge confronting the government of India.
Liberals' carbon confusion
Mark Dreyfus I've given up expecting the opposition to tell the truth about the government's clean energy future plan. But they could at least tell the truth about their own past positions.
Coal, carbon and contradictions
Julie Bishop Labor's chief carbon tax spruiker is faced with an acute dilemma. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has spent the past five months, since breaking her promise not to introduce a carbon tax, attacking the .
Why this is better than Rudd's scheme
Sarah Hanson-Young There are more than 13 billion reasons why the climate package unveiled on Sunday is better at putting a price on pollution than its predecessor.
A revolution for the ages
Sarah Hanson-Young History was made last week. Not because Prime Minister Julia Gillard broke down in Parliament or because Opposition Leader Tony Abbott was struck dumb by a Channel 7 reporter, but because the people...
Time for Good Neighbours to Act
Julie Bishop Never has there been a better time for Australia and its close neighbour Indonesia to deepen and strengthen trade and investment links.
Same book, different cover
Julie Bishop The swearing-in of a woman as Prime Minister of Australia is a milestone for women in this country, however, a number of woman leaders in our region have contacted me in recent days expressing a ...
Australian business: where the bolly hell are you?
Tim Harcourt It really is going to be an Indian summer for Australian exporters and investors with Australia’s expanded commitment to the sub-continent.
Putting the green back into the green and gold
Tim Harcourt Imagine a country that is inward looking and rarely notices the world beyond its own borders. There’s double-digit inflation and unemployment and a poor record of economic growth. Workers and their ..
Rudd's got a big one... projected population growth path, that is
Jessica Irvine Kevin Rudd's got a massive one. It's even bigger than Barack Obama's. But it's not as big as King Abdullah's. I'm talking about projected population growth rates, of course. (It's a long bow, ..
A long way from Copenhagen
Tom Arup Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse for the chances of an international climate change agreement by the end of the year the US and EU are now reportedly fighting with each other.
Pure (Green) Market Economics
Tom Arup Is it that hard to find a free marketeer nowadays, or at least a policy purist? In the climate change debate they are rare.
Rudd's rocky road to recovery
Rocco Fazzari While the rest of the country rides the back of China (India) on its road to recovery, check previous blogs , Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan have hitched their own ride on the back of Australia.
Vote count: Australia's Security Council bid
Daniel Flitton A heavy barrow of cow-dung to push up-hill? I was asked this question (or something close to it) more than once while making the dozens of phone calls all around the world to Comments 4
I still don't know what the war was for
Michael Epis Tony Blair's admission that another reason to wage war on Iraq would have been found in the absence of the supposed weapons of mass destruction is disgraceful - but I can't get excited about it.
Ending the nuclear stand-off
Daniel Flitton A noiseless flash. With those few words in the New Yorker in 1946, John Hersey captured the power of a nuclear explosion.
