Still beating around the bush
Since the beginning of the mining boom Australia’s rural sector has lost $61.5 billion in export income. This includes $18.9 billion in 2011-12 alone.
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Renewable Energy Target (RET)
If you want renewable energy, you want the RET!
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The land of the fair go?
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What's driving up electricity prices?
The RET is not a scapegoat
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Aussie coal...exporting climate change
...with help from the Australian government
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What have state mining subsidies cost you?
$18b over 6 years!
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Big Coal's Budget Boast
Time for a reality check!
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Review of the Boston Consulting Group’s report to the Minister for Communications Briefing for the CWU on Australia Post’s operations
Australia post made a profit before tax of $402.8 million in 2012-13. In the last 4 years its combined profits were more than $1.25 billion.
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Nothing liberal about Australia's superannuation industry
The Liberals will tell you that they don't like telling people how to live their lives.
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Carbon policy sinks to symbolism
Just as introducing the carbon tax didn’t really drive the cost of a leg of lamb to $100, removing it isn’t really going to have any noticeable impact on the cost of living.
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Fighting Dirty on Clean Energy
Australians love renewable energy. A recent survey by The Australia Institute found 86 per cent of respondents want to see more renewable energy and 79 per cent think governments should support an expansion in renewable energy.
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Income and wealth inequality in Australia
Inequality between those with the most and those with the least is rising in Australia. Australia is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, but there are many people in our society who are falling behind. The nature and extent of inequality is the choice of policy makers.
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Flexibility the key to tackling climate change
It's much easier to solve imaginary problems than real ones, which explains why the current Government is highly concerned about low levels of debt, and relaxed about high levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Since 1950 our national debt has fallen from 100 per cent to 14 per cent of GDP.
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Palmer puts climate in the centre
The day after Clive Palmer announced he would oppose the Abbott government’s efforts to abolish the 20 per cent renewable energy target, the price of market-traded renewable energy certificates jumped 27 per cent.
Electricity and privatisation: What happened to those promises?
Electricity prices are a major contributor to cost of living pressures and a major cause of concern for Australian consumers.
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