Henry in The Australian Friday 8 April 2011:

"Something about climate change makes people say silly things. Treasury documents just released under Freedom of Information laws provide telling examples, as they misinterpret the simple economics of carbon taxes v emissions trading schemes. "

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Henry in The Australian Monday 4 April 2011:

"She's gone, and good thing too. But solving NSW's 266 mess will be far more difficult than turfing Kristina Keneally out of office.

The risk is that Barry O'Farrell will fall into the trap of throwing money around, rather than addressing the failures that plague NSW's transport system."

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Henry in The Australian Friday 25 March 2011:

"You don't need to be a professor to know that any policy sells better if it can be linked to tax cuts.

And packaging those tax cuts as "productivity enhancing tax reform" is even smarter: bribes are cheap and tawdry; compensation, Ross Garnaut tells us, is all too readily "unprincipled"; but tax reform is beyond reproach."

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Henry in The Australian Friday 18 March 2011:

"No one knows how Japan's nuclear drama will end. Rightly or wrongly, however, it will greatly undermine public confidence in nuclear power. And even if new plants are built, their costs will rise substantially, as precautions are heaped on precautions."

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Henry in The Australian Friday 11 March 2011:

'"MY son," Timothy Smith from the Fortitude Parents Group told the Productivity Commission's disability inquiry, "is 113cm tall at four, weighs 25kg and does not walk." Yet Smith has spent over a year seeking approval to get his son a high-low bed.

While Smith struggled, Kristina Keneally's 264, which should have provided the funding, splurged on multimillion-dollar payments to the advisers who concocted its failed sale of electricity assets, and the Rudd and Gillard 264s threw billions at school halls, pink batts and subsidies to auto companies to reinvent hybrid cars.'

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Henry in The Australian Monday 28 February 2011:

"HAWKE and Keating floated the dollar; we will price carbon," Julia Gillard said just prior to last week's deal with the Greens.

The comparison is inaccurate, however, for floating the dollar, like cutting tariffs, was desirable even if Australia acted alone; in contrast, a carbon tax can only yield benefits if major emitting countries do the same.

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