Fiona Conolly writes: Fossil gasoline subsidies are a drain on the economic system (“Labor’s billions to fossil gasoline corporations heralds a brand new period of political betrayal”). Coal, gasoline and oil are quick turning into stranded property and coal and gasoline corporations must be restricted to purchasing renewable vitality certificates in the event that they need to declare carbon credit. That might enhance innovation and the roll-out of renewables and hasten the demise of coal, oil and gasoline. It might additionally set us on the street to a profitable renewable vitality business that delivers low-cost, clear vitality and jobs, benefiting our communities, our planet and rising manufacturing industries.
Ivan Davis writes: Fossil gasoline subsidies don’t make an iota of sense except the primary order of enterprise is corruption. Then and solely then do they make excellent sense.
John Peel writes: Sufficient to make you puke. Maeve McGregor at her finest.
Jane Rayner writes: That is another excuse I’ve misplaced religion in Labor. As a substitute of handing the polluting industries billions in subsidies, it must be fixing Medicare, addressing the housing, schooling and hospital crises and elevating JobSeeker. The place is Gough’s Labor?
John Blyth writes: It’s arduous to place it extra eloquently than this text. What is going to it take to vary the dominant paradigm?
Jean John writes: Each time a authorities does one thing it is aware of will probably be unpopular it sells it on the idea of making jobs, e.g. buying nuclear submarines, fracking the Beetaloo Basin, funding extra fossil-fuel initiatives.
We don’t want extra jobs. We now have low unemployment and a scarcity of building employees and tradies. What we want is extra reasonably priced housing and leases for low-paid employees equivalent to care and well being employees, the unemployed and so forth, and an honest rise in JobSeeker.
Brian Ede writes: I bear in mind discussing the diesel gasoline rebate with Peter Walsh when he was finance minister. He was of the very sturdy view that you don’t tax exports. As I perceive it, a lot of the quantities you discuss with are the return of excise duties paid on diesel gasoline. Most of our mined minerals are exported. If the excise responsibility was not returned it might characterize an added value to the exported product. The same state of affairs exists for many of our farming merchandise. I’m not positive what changes, if any, are made for industries that produce into the home market.
Neither saint nor sinner
Eva Cox writes: I’m shocked Leslie Cannold wrote “Girls leaders are not any extra morally pure than males” as I’m involved it is going to be utilized by nasty anti-feminists to marketing campaign towards equality for ladies. As a long-term energetic feminist who has copped it from different feminists and males, I’m conscious that ladies are human and neither mechanically saintly nor evil.
So few of us declare girls are inherently extra ethical than males. We’d like actual equality so the vary of expertise and experiences we usually tend to personal are wanted in positions of energy, wanted to stability those who males primarily supply. The actions of the 2 older girls Cannold used as proof is a really poor foundation of this “discovery”.
The mess that’s neoliberalism is a harmful paradigm that has a macho rejection of unpaid contribution as well-being, preferring the monetised. That has produced crappy male drive issues that feminists want to deal with because it ignores our unpaid care wants. We will’t declare all males are egocentric… Gender is complicated… and never holy!
Megan Stoyles writes: Are girls there to be “God’s police” or have they got the identical flaws as males however nonetheless deserve half the chocolate bikkies, as Leslie Cannold asks. Your story “Rank hypocrisy: Seymour takes the autumn as PwC enters fame rehab mode” suggests a twist on the previous.
After the “fall” of CEO Tom Seymour he’s changed by a girl, Kristin Stubbins, as an “appearing” CEO. Presumably she’ll mop up the blood up then get out the Dyson to hoover up the carpets, or sweep beneath them to guard the others. A glorified housekeeper except she finds some extra actually soiled enterprise — linen or in any other case — that may assist her to maintain the highest job (if she desires it).
Zero sum recreation
Roger Clifton writes: A nationwide internet zero authority is a courageous and vital establishment to transform Australia to non-fossil vitality (“Australia has a net-zero authority in the end. Right here’s what it’ll do”). For it to arrange employees for a fossil-free future, it must prepare them to scale back iron ore manufacturing with electrical energy, make fondu cement in electrical furnaces, synthesise gasoline, petrochemicals and plastics from recycled CO2 and, sure, easy methods to function nuclear energy stations. We should embrace nuclear within the combine if we’re ever to free ourselves from gasoline.
Lower to the core
Kristian Eldridge writes: The federal government shouldn’t scrap the stage three tax cuts (“The merciless and unfair stage three tax cuts will solely worsen inequality”). I’m Australian, however I come from a migrant background with mother and father who additionally suffered from vital monetary drawback for a lot of their lives. So I labored arduous and made sacrifices to earn the earnings I earn at the moment and doubtless gained’t proceed to earn perpetually. So scrapping the stage three tax cuts could be vastly unfair and merciless to me and many individuals like me, and can result in extra inequality.
