BTW: “seeing investments move to other countries” (17-November-2008) might in a globalized economic system be good – according to CSIRO’s 2007 Australia’s emissions in a global context says “Australia’s carbon intensity of GDP (amount of carbon burned as fossil fuel per dollar of wealth created) is 25 per cent higher than the world average. It is a little higher than the USA and nearly double that of Europe and Japan.”

BANANA = Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything

But it is very pompous.

Surely, as a classical liberal yourself, you can see that many might (and do) object to some of the proposed government action on the grounds that they will involve massive intrusion into the lives of individuals and encroachment on individual liberty? (Particularly when no one is able to say how much the government actions will change the climate for the better, if at all).

It is not NIMBYism when you object to these policies based on a fundamental philosophical value.

It is quite an achievement that the Union leadership has given up representing the concerns of their members and is now devoted to providing the ALP with aparatchiks.

But surely someone must break ranks and point out that an ETS will result in some job losses, particularly for heavily unionised sectors.