A professor of physics at Princeton University, Professor William Happer, has dismissed claims that carbon dioxide is causing dangerous global warming, in a feature article in the Wall Street Journal. Professor Happer worked for three years with the US Department of Energy, where he headed its $3 billion research budget, before returning to Princeton…
The latest Treasury estimates that the federal budget deficit for the current financial year will rise to over $40 billion — instead of the $22.6 billion forecast in the federal budget less than a year ago — raise fundamental questions about the government’s credibility, adding to concerns that it cannot be believed when it promises…
In the first round of voting in East Timor’s presidential election, Francisco “Lú-Olo” Guterres, the candidate for the main opposition party Fretilin, led the voting with 28 per cent, followed by the protegé of Xanana Gusmão, former military chief Taur Matan Ruak with 25 per cent, and current President José Ramos-Horta in third position. The election marks the end of Ramos-Horta’s political career in East Timor, but he could take up a position internationally with the UN. Ramos-Horta — who served as East Timor’s Foreign Minister from 2002 to 2006, as Prime Minister from 2006-7, and as President from 2007-12…
Having secured the Greens’ support to get its mining tax through the Senate, the Gillard Government has completed its immediate tax reform agenda, with the carbon tax and the mining tax to take effect from July 1. For the federal Labor Government, whose economic credibility has been damaged by squandering billions of dollars in…
