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• Australia carbon emissions law hit by opposition revolt

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  The Australian governments plans to enact a law for an emissions trading scheme have been thrown into chaos. A revolt within the opposition Liberal Party could overturn an agreement reached earlier in the week with the Liberal leader, Malcolm Turnbull. He agreed to pass the measure through the upper house of ...
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• Australia – Climate Change Turmoil

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 445
  Could it just be that Australia has become the touchstone in the fight against Climate Change Legislation to introduce an emissions trading scheme. This story is raging across Australia at the moment. At that link are further links to related matters, all worth looking at. The story is also making headway in the ...
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  BIG NEWS — Authority: 427
  Goff’s Nationhood speech Rather than do an immediate post on Goff’s Nationhood speech , I thought I’d wait rather than attack Goff for a racist speech that Shane Jones vetted before delivery. What Goff appeared to want to do is open up a split within the Māori Party at the same time as divide a wedge ...
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• Insensitive and hypersensitive

  
  Kiwipolitico — Authority: 484
  In the Insensitivity and hypersensitivity paper I referred to previously, Raymond Nairn and Timothy McCreanor studied submissions to the Human Rights Commission in response to the Haka Party Incident in which He Taua, including one Hone Harawira, broke up an offensive Auckland University engineering school mock-haka ...
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• The great Leader of the Opposition yawnfest

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 140
  Rudd has so effectively wedged the Libs on virtually every issue of importance over the last year that they simply might as well not even bother turning up to the House, and I don’t think that’s a good thing for our system of government at all. I wish we actually had a more effective Federal Opposition (one here ...
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• AFGC welcomes amendments to CPRS

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 512
  The recognition and support for food processing in the Federal Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) amendments has been welcomed by Australia’s largest manufacturing sector, the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) said today.The Government’s proposed $150 million allocation under the ...
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  BIG NEWS — Authority: 427
  Interesting interview with Shane Jones on the ETS
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  BIG NEWS — Authority: 427
  The Māori Party and ETS updated It is well known that the Māori Party has voted for the emissions trading scheme, despite Rahui Katene and Hone Harawira being opposed to the scheme, as do many of those in the five iwi who this deal is proported to support. Harawira has said he only answers to his constituents. ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• NZ a square peg in round ETS hole

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 446
  New Zealand’s problem is that we’re different. Primary production and industries based on it are our bigeest export earners; almost all our forestry is from exotic species; we have relatively little heavy industry and the bulk of our power is already from renewable sources. The Kyoto Protocol wasn’t designed ...
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• Quote of the day: Wall Street Journal on Nick Smith’s Emissions Trading Scam [update 2]

  
  Not PC — Authority: 592
  In the week that the Key Government is rushing to shackle New Zealand with its rushed-through Emissions Trading Scam, it’s worth recalling what the Wall Street Journal   said of it back in September: To the annals of global warming lunacy, add this gem from New Zealand: According to [the Key ...
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  BIG NEWS — Authority: 427
  Maori seats and ETS Could someone explain how the Maori seats are seen by National as special treatment, whereas horsetrading over the Emissions Trading Scheme with the holders of most of the Maori seats in a willingness to disproportionately benefit the Maori elite (and earlier the not-so-elite Maori ) is not ...
  1 week ago

• A government at war with its own Treasury

  
  frogblog — Authority: 583
  In all the time I’ve been hopping around Parliament I’ve never heard a statement more extraordinary than this one: The numbers from Treasury are nonsense. Treasury can’t tell us what the deficit is going to be in December let alone what’s happening in 2030 or 2040. Now, I’ll admit to having a go at ...
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• Quotation for Today, Wednesday November 18

  
  The Inquiring Mind — Authority: 484
  If anyone can get this mangy three-legged dog of a law through Parliament it’s National’s Excitable Boy, but I’m starting to wonder whether even Smith himself wishes National hadn’t opposed Labour’s earlier plan of a simple carbon tax quite so vehemently Colin Espiner blogging at Stuff on the ETS ...
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• That’s a “responsible” $100 billion burden, thank you [update]

  
  Not PC — Authority: 592
  The Not Evil Just Wrong blog awards New Zealand’s Environment Minister Nick Smith the Oxymoron Promise of the Day prize today for talking “responsibility” while imposing a $100 billion burden on taxpayers by 2050. Not sure if that’s a prize-winning Oxymoron or award-winning chutzpah. Either way it’s par ...
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• Consensus: No Climate Deal at Copenhagen

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  The decision by some world leaders to not seek a binding climate change agreement in Copenhagen has dealt a significant setback to efforts leading up to December’s meeting, reports the Wall Street Journal.Instead, Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has proposed to Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ...
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• The subsidy myth

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 446
  Business New Zealand has released a paper analysing claims that farms and other businesses will be subsidised by households under the proposed emissions trading scheme. Chief Executive Phil O’Reilly says : The subsidy myth is based on the mistaken belief that ‘households are good and business is bad’ and ...
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• APEC Declaration is another fatal blow for Copenhagen talks

  
  Woolly Days — Authority: 465
  The two-day APEC economic leaders’ summit in Singapore has ended with a leaders’ declaration that promoted free trade but promised little action on climate change three weeks ahead of Copenhagen. Kevin Rudd joined 20 other Pacific Rim leaders in Singapore including US’s Barack Obama and China’s Hu Jintao. ...
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• Ag exempt from Aussie ETS

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 446
  The Melbourne Age reports : Labor has agreed to a keystone Coalition demand that agriculture be excluded permanently from the carbon pollution reduction scheme, raising hopes that Government legislation will pass through Parliament before the Copenhagen climate summit in December. And the Australian reports ...
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• Australian farmers to be exempt from CPRS

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 535
  The Labor Government has conceded one of the non-negotiable points in discussions over the CPRS by exempting farming from the CPRS according to reports in the Murdoch press , The Age and elsewhere. Penny Wong as the special guest on Insiders this morning said it showed that they were serious in wanting to get ...
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