Tonight’s Lateline program: Tony Jones interviews John Cleese and Eric Idle.
The Result Of Clive Palmer’s Al Gore Stunt: Carbon Tax Abolished, ETS Dead
Jun 25, 2014
The cynicism of today’s stunt by Clive Palmer became clear late tonight as the Palmer United Party leader confirmed that his senators will vote for the abolition of the carbon tax and the emissions trading scheme.
Earlier today, Palmer called for the establishment of an emissions trade scheme (ETS) that would only come into force once China, the United States, the European Union, Japan and Korea had also taken action to establish similar schemes. International action of this order is all but impossible to imagine. [Read more…]
Hockey On Lateline: The End Of The Age Of Entitlement
Apr 18, 2012
11.15pm – Notwithstanding the usual annoying and incessant interruptions from his interlocutor, Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey has just offered up a remarkably woolly performance on Lateline.
Hockey has delivered a speech in London – transcript not yet available – in which he argues that The Age of Entitlement is over.
In the interview he was pressed on how this would be achieved in government. Aside from a defence of the Health Insurance Rebate as a government spending measure which actually reduces expenditure on other entitlements, Hockey was less than specific about what he will do as Treasurer in less than 18 months time.
- Listen to Hockey explain his entitlement policy:
- Update: Transcript of Hockey’s speech.
Paul Keating Defends Carbon Tax On Lateline
Jul 15, 2011
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating appeared on Lateline last night to defend the carbon tax.
Keating said the carbon tax was an essential step on the path to new industries in the new age: “See, the question is, I think: do we want a first-rate industrial economy or do we want an economy with a brown, fat underbelly? You know, do we want to get into the new age with the new industries, or do we stay in the old ones, talking as Tony Abbott is talking about industries that were important a hundred years ago?”
- Watch Keating on Lateline (20m)
- Listen to Keating (20m)
Transcript of Paul Keating’s Lateline interview.
TONY JONES, PRESENTER: To discuss the media and politics, I’m now joined in the studio by the former prime minister Paul Keating.
Thanks for being here. [Read more…]