Portfolio Media Releases, Workplace Relations, Emissions Trading Scheme
The Prime Minister has demonstrated the complexity of the government’s emissions trading scheme by getting a major detail incorrect in question time today.
“In question time today the Prime Minister was asked about concerns raised by Xstrata that the government’s emissions trading scheme will lea... (16-Mar)
Portfolio Media Releases, Emissions Trading Scheme
Topics: Emissions Trading Scheme, Government obsession with Coalition, Telegraph poll.
DAVID SPEERS: Andrew Robb, welcome to the programme.
ANDREW ROBB: Thanks David.
DAVID SPEERS: Let me first try to clear up what the Coalition’s position now is on climate change. Do you accept that the c... (16-Mar)
Portfolio Media Releases, Emissions Trading Scheme
Topics: Emissions Trading Scheme.
PRESENTER (ELIZABETH BYRNE): But the Coalition’s climate change spokesman Andrew Robb says he hopes the inquiry will examine other carbon reduction measures.
ANDREW ROBB: We, with the Greens, are interested in exploring, what sorts of schemes can maintain the ... (16-Mar)
Portfolio Media Releases, Emissions Trading Scheme
The circus surrounding Kevin Rudd’s emissions trading scheme has moved from the bumbling to the ridiculous with revelations that the Government’s own Senate inquiry into their scheme will only accept submissions for a week.
“Vitally affected businesses and green organisations have been given 30 w... (13-Mar)
Portfolio Media Releases, The Economy, Emissions Trading Scheme
The Treasurer, Wayne Swan, has had a shot at the Coalition for initiating a Senate Select Committee inquiry into the best way to tackle climate change.
Yet, it is only three weeks ago that the Treasurer himself sent a panicked Terms of Reference to the House of Representatives Standing Committee ... (11-Mar)
Speeches, The Economy, Workplace Relations, Emissions Trading Scheme
This is an issue of great consequence for all Australians, yet it requires judgment and great common sense, especially in the difficult times that the country is now experiencing. Sadly, however, on the question of climate change this government is legislating for certainty—the certainty of unemploy... (11-Mar)
Portfolio Media Releases, Workplace Relations, Emissions Trading Scheme
Topics: Industrial Relations, ETS, Polls.
MARIUS BENSON: Andrew Robb, the Opposition has had a range of opinions on the Industrial Relations legislation of the Government. Last night the Shadow Cabinet debated it. Is there now a settled view that you will take to the Parliament and put in the Se... (10-Mar)
Portfolio Media Releases, Emissions Trading Scheme
Topics: Government’s Emissions Trading Scheme.
ANDREW ROBB: I think I agree with Bob Brown when he said a deeply flawed scheme is worse than no scheme.
PRESENTER: The Opposition has yet to declare whether it will support the Government's legislation. Already it’s talking to the Greens about ... (10-Mar)
Portfolio Media Releases, Emissions Trading Scheme
Topics: Government’s Emissions Trading Scheme.
PRESENTER: The Coalition say they will oppose it unless it includes 100% free permits to the trade exposed polluters. So your bottom line in terms of getting an ETS through the Senate is that there should be no cost impost on the so-called trade exp... (10-Mar)
Portfolio Media Releases, Workplace Relations, Emissions Trading Scheme
Topics: Government’s Emissions Trading Scheme, Industrial Relations, Polls.
JOE O’BRIEN: Now as we’ve been reporting this morning the Climate Change Minister, Penny Wong, is today going to release a draft of the Federal Government’s plans for an emissions trading scheme. To hear the Opposition's... (10-Mar)