June InSight mailout

In advance of the Garnaut Review’s final report, Iain McGill and Regina
Betz argue that the introduction of a national Emissions Trading Scheme
should see all permits auctioned rather than given away to industry.

Gavan McDonell untangles the history and politics of Australia’s National Energy Market.

In the second of two articles on consumer policy and competition, CPD
fellow Ian McAuley examines the limits of competition in the Australian
policy marketplace.

In the first and second articles in this series, Robert Salter argued
for the society-wide benefits of more substantial public investment in
the disadvantaged and identified obstacles and tasks to be addressed in
pursuit of this goal. In this final article, he proposes two measures
that might help achieve the higher level of investment he advocates.

In this article, Ariel Salleh explores the interrelation of gender and climate change.