Last week’s budget included funding cuts to many areas of government, and the environment certainly was one of the areas to suffer. There were some
read moreAmidst all the discussions about carbon taxes and emissions trading schemes for mitigating climate change, we hear very little about fossil fuel subsidies. You’d be
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It is obvious that the budgets of our public environmental programs are small relative to the cost of fixing all of our environmental problems. If
read moreMick Keogh, from the Australian Farm Institute, recently argued that “much greater caution is required when considering policy responses for issues where the main science
read moreIf I buy something, I have to pay the asking price, but I may also incur a range of extra costs. These might include things
read moreThe proposed carbon pricing policy in Australia is now routinely referred to as a carbon tax by both government and opposition. This is odd, because
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