Any advance on $100 a tonne for emissions? The bid is with the young lady on the far Left

THE bid is with the young lady on the far Left.

When it comes to putting a price on CO2, it seems that the only way is up.

Chris Uhlmann with Climate Change Minister Greg Combet on ABC1's 7:30 , March 17:

Uhlmann: Greg Combet, is a carbon price of between $20 and $30 a tonne around about where the government will land?

Combet: Well the first point, Chris, is that Professor Garnaut is an independent economic adviser over the issue of carbon pricing. That's his view of where a starting price should be.

$40? Greens senator Christine Milne on AM yesterday:

It's simplistic to rush out with a price now, but I certainly recognise that you are going to need a price at $40 or more to shift from coal to gas.

$100? Sarah Hanson-Young on ABC 24 yesterday:

If we want to transition from coal to gas it's going to need to be in, the report's point of view -- although we haven't seen it yet -- $40 a tonne at least, and we know if we want to transition right through to renewables it's going to have to be in the vicinity of $100 a tonne, but that's of course not on the table.

Tony Abbott yesterday:

Whatever level it starts at, it's going to go up and up and up.

Deal or no deal? Leigh Sales with Immigration Minister Chris Bowen on ABC 7:30 on Monday:

Sales: So how far away do you think you are from being able to tell us where they'll be going and under what conditions?

Bowen: Well, look, we'll make further announcements when we're in a position to.

Sales: And do you know how far away?

Bowen: Well, look, I'm not gonna put a time frame on it, Leigh.

Sales: Days? Weeks?

Bowen: The discussions we've had with other countries have been very productive.

Sales: You've not really been able to answer in detail any of the questions that I've put to you so far about these people, where or when they'll be transferred. Why did the Gillard government announce this Malaysia deal before the details are pinned down?

Bowen: Australia and Malaysia agreed that we'd reached the level of commitment that it was appropriate to make that public.

Trees have rights too! Peter Burdon, law lecturer at the University of Adelaide, on ABC online's The Drum:

The legal recognition of nature's rights is a novel but potentially important step toward an ecologically sustainable human presence on Earth. When the legal standing of the entity shifts, so too does our understanding of it.

In a country like Australia, which does not recognise a bill of rights for human beings, we are a long way off achieving such recognition for nature. But if nature is recognised as a bedrock value and limit on human activity, then it could create opportunity for a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship. Of course, achieving the delicate balance between human use and access to nature and its rights would be key. However, to translate existing rights of nature law in a way that protects the environment would certainly be a decisive step for an Australian government.

ABC dole bludger Julian Morrow speaks to Kara Greiner on ABC News 24's The Drum last Thursday:

Morrow: There's a tendency for people to become reliant on rebates and think that is part of their entitlement. I think this is a problem across the board. And at some point this is going to have to stop.

Greiner: Isn't your entire income coming from public funding through the ABC?

Morrow: Yeah, and I don't want a cap.

Vote of no confidence . . . William Morris Hughes debates the Australian Broadcasting Commission bill, March 10, 1932:

I shall not be a party to the adoption of a policy which deliberately vests control of this great agency in the hands of mediocrities. I am profoundly disappointed with this measure. I cannot conceive that it will create those conditions which are desirable in the control of broadcasting.

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