May 6, 2013
Australia’s built and natural heritage is crucially important to our sense of who we are and our place in the world.
As well as contributing to the aesthetic of our everyday lives, our heritage serves as a potent reminder of our cultu...
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May 1, 2013
The Government's Carbon Tax is in tatters and it only has itself to blame. It developed a scheme that was structurally unsound in making it completely dependent on decisions in Brussels. The entirely predictable crash in the EU price has therefore punched a chasm in the Federal Budget and ruined any prospect of actual emissions reduction in Austral...
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April 23, 2013
Featured in the Daily Telegraph on 23 April 2013
Australians are being dudded by the Carbon Tax and the crash in the European market this week confirms it.
Sadly, the consequences are felt in lost jobs and increasing power prices while Europe ...
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April 17, 2013
In 2012 Julia Gillard triumphantly announced in Parliament that she would tie her Carbon Tax to the European ETS.
It was another bad judgment by Julia Gillard.
Overnight, there were wild price fluctuations in the European carbon price with Europe’s price falling 30 per cent by the end of trading. The Economist has even now called the ...
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April 12, 2013
Appeared in The Australian- 12 April 2013
Australian electoral history is repeating itself with Julia Gillard's ironic claim that a Coalition Government would hurt Australia - China relations.
Indeed, this is taken straight from the Keating pl...
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January 11, 2013
From The Drum Website- 11 January 2013
Let me be clear from the start: there is no doubt that, contrary to David Forman’s claims on this page recently, a Coalition Government will abolish the carbon tax.
We will scrap the tax because it...
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January 11, 2013
From The Australian- Friday 11 December 2013
At its best, liberalism is focussed on allowing community to flourish by allowing individuals to flourish.
The essential path to such community fulfilment and individual development comes then throu...
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December 4, 2012
From The Punch- 4 December 2012
http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Wheres-greg-combet-nowhere-on-climate-change/
A notable absence from the climate change talks in Doha this week is Minister Greg Combet.
What's wrong with sending Dreyfus to...
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December 4, 2012
From the Australian Financial Review, 4 December 2012
The government has consciously set out to increase electricity prices while suddenly adopting some of the Coalition’s language on decreasing them. In response to Geoff Winestock (AFR, De...
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November 21, 2012
(Featured in the Daily Telegraph, 20 November 2012)
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/carbon-tax-the-true-cause-of-power-price-pain/story-e6frezz0-1226519836856
The Government has desperately been trying to justify a major policy bac...
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November 7, 2012
Published in The Australian- 7 November 2012
According to ALP backbencher Andrew Leigh "the Australian carbon price is quite typical of international schemes". Let us take one of the examples he used on this page earlier in the week -New Zealand &...
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October 2, 2012
Alan Jones Was Wrong And The ALP Is Hypocritical
By Greg Hunt
THIS is a dangerous piece to write. But here we go. It concerns the search for both a higher discourse in public life and the use of selective outrage for advancing particu...
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September 27, 2012
Featured in the Daily Telegraph- 27 September 2012
By Greg Hunt
This week Rose, an elderly caller to the Ray Hadley Program on 2GB, broke down in tears over the massive increase in her latest electricity bill. It was only the goodwill of ...
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September 4, 2012
By Greg Hunt and David Bushby- As seen on Mamamia
http://www.mamamia.com.au/news/australian-army-in-east-timor/
When news of the Afghanistan tragedies hit, we were with Australian soldiers at a small military training facility for East Timorese soldiers near Dili. All of the Australians were on deployment to help develop skills w...
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August 11, 2012
So what would a Coalition Government look like? How would it operate?
These are of course the same questions that were asked in 1995 when it was said by critics that a potential Howard Administration lacked the vision, the...
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