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Archive for 'ETS'
Labor and the carbon tax: will they or won’t they?
Posted by John, October 29th, 2013 - under ALP, Australian Labor Party, Capitalism, Carbon tax, Climate change, Emissions Trading Scheme, ETS, Revolution.
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It looks to me as if profit and competition are the barriers to addressing climate change. If that is the case then only a democratic revolution of workers to run society to satisfy human need can address climate change. As the banners at some environmental demonstrations and eco-socialist conferences say ‘System Change, not Climate Change.’
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The Greens’ renewable energy fantasies go up in smoke
Posted by John, August 28th, 2012 - under Carbon tax, Emissions Trading Scheme, ETS, European Union.
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The abandonment of the proposed floor price from the Australian ETS scheduled to start in 2015 is a political, not an environmental, decision. It means the Gillard government can say we are on track to be part of a global market in permits, although that market will do little or nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions if the price remains low. The neoliberal Greens have sold us yet another market dud.
The battlers’ buffer or the battlers’ bluffer?
Posted by John, June 27th, 2011 - under Battlers' buffer, Carbon tax, Emissions Trading Scheme, ETS.
Comments: 6
So what is all this talk about a battler’s buffer for the carbon tax? Small details like the actual carbon price and the amount of the compensation could be weeks away. But the Gillard Government’s approach is pretty clear. The carbon tax won’t cost us anything. In fact in terms of money 3 million Australians – […]
Greens: trust us, not Rudd
Posted by John, October 12th, 2009 - under Australian politics, Capitalism, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Environment, ETS, Fighting back, The Greens.
Comments: 3
Imagine how a militant radical campaign for green jobs could ignite society and actually have a chance of winning. Put your faith in us, Greens, not Rudd.
The Minerals Council: mining bullshit
Posted by Bill, May 24th, 2009 - under Australian politics, Capitalism, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, CFMEU, Climate change, CPRS, Emissions Trading Scheme, ETS, Global Warming, Great Recession, Green jobs, Greenhouse gases, Jobs, Labor Party, Minerals Council, Mining, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, sackings, unemployment, Unions, Workers.
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Employment in the mining industry will double over the next decade. Scaremongering about job losses is so the bosses can get even more money out of us.
Get Up – the facts on Rudd’s climate change retreat
Posted by Bill, May 5th, 2009 - under Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Climate change, CPRS, Emissions Trading Scheme, Environment, ETS, Get Up.
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Get Up has a very readable analysis of the Rudd Government’s complete capitulation to the big polluters and a laughable postponement of the start up date.
Real tax reform: a love letter to Ken Henry
Posted by Leonie, April 26th, 2009 - under Australian politics, Big business, Bosses pay, Capital gains, Capitalism, Carbon tax, Class struggle, Classes, Democracy, Economic crisis, Economics, Emissions Trading Scheme, ETS, Henry tax review, Inheritance tax, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Reformism, Socialism, Tax.
Comments: 8
We should look at taxation through the eyes of the working class. Tax labour lightly and capital heavily.
An early election
Posted by John, March 20th, 2009 - under ALP, Australian politics, Economics, Elections, Emissions Trading Scheme, ETS, Fair Work Australia, Labor Party, sackings, The Liberals, The Right, unemployment, WorkChoices, WorkChoices Lite.
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When Labor votes in the House of Representatives against the Senate amended Fair Work Bill, it is a clear sign there will be an early election. Unemployment is going to skyrocket over the next year (if not earlier) and Labor wants to do anything to avoid voter anger over that. Given 3 month Constitutional requirements – […]
Follow the Maldives Kevin
Posted by John, March 17th, 2009 - under ALP, Australian politics, Big business, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Emissions Trading Scheme, ETS, Global Warming, Green energy, Green jobs, Greenhouse gases, Labor Party, The Maldives.
Comments: 6
The Maldives is going carbon neutral. Force Rudd, the Mister Magoo of climate change, to follow them and lead the developed world.
Emissions trading: a pollution and profits bonanza
Posted by John, March 13th, 2009 - under ALP, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian politics, Big business, Capitalism, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Climate change, CPRS, Emissions Trading Scheme, ETS, Global Warming, Green energy, Green jobs, Greenhouse gases, Jobs, Labor Party, Living standards, Penny Wong, Resistance, Socialism, The Left.
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Labor’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme is about profits for the polluters, not cutting greenhouse gas emissions, Liz Ross argues in the latest edition of Socialist Alternative. Rudd’s done it again! One more broken promise. Remember when Labor said they’d tear up WorkChoices – well we’ve got WorkChoices-not-so-lite instead and they kept all the “special” laws […]