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I am republishing this for the benefit of those who may not understand PreferentialVoting in Australia. This will fuilly explain what Joe Ebono is saying in one of his campaign speeches. Neville Gillmore May 12, 2010 Preferential Voting in Australia At the request of political science colleagues, I have updated an article I wrote for Continue Reading →
July 9, 2010
Julia Gillard has declared she is the woman to back if voters want action on climate change, despite confirming she will not reverse the government decision to shelve the emissions trading scheme until 2013.
Speaking yesterday in Brisbane, the Prime Minister said the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, does not believe climate change is caused by human activity and his position on a carbon price is unreliable.
Ms Gillard is preparing to announce new policies to address climate change – including an energy-efficiency program and new renewable energy projects – to fill the gap left by the decision to shelve its trading scheme.
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The Federal Government has awarded a grant to an experiment in Queensland’s South Burnett region that uses algae to convert carbon emissions into fuel.
A team of researchers at James Cook University are working with MBD Energy to perfect the algal synthesis method that converts the plant’s carbon emissions into a bio-fuel and a low-cost feed for animals.
MBD Energy spokesman Andrew Lawson says the next step is to try the technology at a one-hectare site at the Tarong Power station, south-west of Gympie.
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Prototype: the aircraft charged its batteries during 14 hours of daytime flight (AFP: Denis Balibouse)
A solar powered aircraft masterminded by a Swiss adventurer has made history as the first manned plane to fly around the clock on the sun’s energy, bringing a step closer the dream of perpetual flight.
After 26 hours in the air the experimental Solar Impulse aircraft with pilot Andre Borschberg onboard made a seamless landing at Payerne airbase in western Switzerland at 9.01am local time, about three hours after daybreak.
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A member of the Reserve Bank board says Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s decision to rule out a price on carbon for some years is ill advised.
Professor Warwick McKibbin, also an economist at Australian National University (ANU), says industry wants a price on carbon and the alternative will prove more costly.
In a report for the Lowy Institute, he argues for a new strategy for wealthy countries to reduce pollution.
Rather than waiting for a United Nations agreement, Professor McKibbin suggests rich countries use the Major Economies Forum to come up with their own solution.
The forum’s member countries, including Australia, would simply agree to adopt similar carbon prices domestically, and to increase them over time.
“We know from the Copenhagen outcome that countries are willing to take action, the problem is that they’re not willing to incur excessive costs,” Professor McKibbin said.
“This is a mechanism by which they can implement policy, they can do it in a way where they compare to each other and coordinate so that the competitiveness problems which have derailed the domestic as well as the international negotiations are taken out of the equation.
“If everyone’s moving together with a similar pricing structure, then the negative spill-over affects across countries are diminished.”
But Ms Gillard’s timeline leaves no room for such ideas, ruling out any price on carbon for years to come.
Green Loans debacle continues as audit reports reveal extent ofwrong-doing Thursday 8 July 2010 There are more questions than answers remaining about the Gillardgovernment’s household energy efficiency programs after today’sannouncement by Minister Penny Wong. The changes to the Green Loans program, rolling it into the alreadyplanned Green Start program, come as the Minister released damning Continue Reading →