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ben.b.shah - sorry but someSunday, July 10, 2011 @ 11:02PMIn reply to The Carbon Tax We Had To Have : ben.b.shah - sorry but some readers are not in the esoteric group. Are you suggesting it is better that energy developments, particularly with so-called baseload, are publicly owned? I would agree with that and would also disagree with tinkering at the edges which is what the Greens seem to have, maximally, been able to extract from this Government. I ...

Gillard should have takenSunday, July 10, 2011 @ 11:02PMIn reply to The Carbon Tax We Had To Have : Gillard should have taken the opportunity to announce a winding back of population growth (via progressive reductions in immigration) as a fundamental part of the carbon tax strategy. Building an Australian laager state here, apart from being utterly reactionary and likely to fuel poisonous bigotry, simply can’t alter the trajectory of world emissions ...

Thanks, Gideon andSunday, July 10, 2011 @ 11:02PMIn reply to The Carbon Tax We Had To Have : Thanks, Gideon and Ben.b.shah for your thoughtful responses It is difficult to make sense of so much data when you have to constantly dive underneath to question the bias. I find it unfortunate that this blog is as polarised as it is with what seems an ungenerous attempt by the better informed to move the conversation forward. It would be great to have ...

ben.eltham, You keep mixingSunday, July 10, 2011 @ 11:02PMIn reply to The Carbon Tax We Had To Have : ben.eltham, You keep mixing up the use of price mechanisms in some situations with those in others. It is mistaken to assume they operate identically in all parts of economies. But, being a doctor, I’m also familiar with taxes on alcohol and tobacco. In both cases these have been of limited effect, with other regulatory measures (e.g. bans on ...

Dr Tad - A medical doctorSunday, July 10, 2011 @ 11:02PMIn reply to The Carbon Tax We Had To Have : Dr Tad - A medical doctor claiming taxes on tobacco and alcohol have been of “limited effect”. Now I really have seen everything. I don’t normally get angry in comments, but your post made me angry. Angry enough to examine the peer-reviewed literature on the effect of price on tobacco consumption. Here’s a paper in the prestigious British Medical ...

Now Ben, don’t be so hardSunday, July 10, 2011 @ 11:02PMIn reply to The Carbon Tax We Had To Have : Now Ben, don’t be so hard on Dr Tadtietze — we all rationalise our emotional commitments, don’t we, and emotional commitments don’t come much deeper than ideology!

Sorry, figure 3 on page 51Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 11:02PMIn reply to The Carbon Tax We Had To Have : Sorry, figure 3 on page 51 of that PDF . @Dr_Tad — http://left-flank.blogspot.com/

The phone hacking and policeThursday, July 7, 2011 @ 10:32PMIn reply to Murdoch's Business Is A Pox On Democracy : The phone hacking and police bribery by News Corp employees in the UK are the least of the crimes of the Murdoch Empire. Holocaust ignoring is even worse than repugnant holocaust denial (at least the latter permits public discussion) but the pro-war Murdoch media have resolutely refused to report the horrendous carnage of the Iraqi Holocaust ...

I agree with the conclusionThursday, July 7, 2011 @ 10:32PMIn reply to Murdoch's Business Is A Pox On Democracy : I agree with the conclusion of the article that “News Limited here in Australia has long been understood to have a culture inimical to everyday understandings of democratic beliefs or professional ethics. The toxic culture of News Limited is alive and well in this country, much for the worse of our democracy. ” However the censorship and ...