Emissions target `cannot be met’
KEVIN Rudd’s goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 5 per cent by 2020 has been shown to have little prospect of success.
KEVIN Rudd’s goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 5 per cent by 2020 has been shown to have little prospect of success.
THE Newspoll published in The Australian yesterday included good and bad news for the Coalition, says Peter van Onselen.
KEVIN Rudd’s lack of a power base means he needs high approval ratings, which rules out any hope of significant policy reform, says Peter van Onselen.
THERE will be a spate of state and federal elections across Australia this year, but most incumbent governments are safe.
LIBERALS should copy the ALP in the way it draws on the support of its natural constituencies, especially in opposition, says Peter van Onselen.
Kevin Rudd said the Copenhagen outcome “represents a significant global agreement”. Does it now? asks Peter van Onselen.
THE maverick will hurt the opposition, says Peter van Onselen.
STYMIED on carbon trading, Labor appears unwilling to call a climate change election.
IT is hard to know which of our political leaders is more inconsistent with their rhetoric on emissions trading and climate change.
THERE are a good deal of similarities between the way NSW Premier Nathan Rees lost his job yesterday and the way Malcolm Turnbull lost his on Tuesday.
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