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Let’s Tax Carbon: And other ideas for a better Australia
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Let’s Tax Carbon: And other ideas for a better Australia by Ross Garnaut

Few books are greater than the sum of their parts – many are less. In the case of Ross Garnaut’s latest effort, the parts are greater than the sum. As a book, Let’s Tax Carbon: And other ideas for a better Australia succeeds and fails. It succeeds as a field guide to the past, present, and future of the Australian economy’s three big policy problems: transitioning to a net-zero carbon economy; reversing social and economic inequity; and creating new industries that secure the nation’s prosperity. But it fails as a work of non-fiction.

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Calibre Essays

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June 2009, no. 312

Advances: Literary News - June 2009

Ideal climate for writing Climate change poses undoubted challenges for science – and society – but what exactly does the phenomenon mean for Australian cultural…

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September 1986, no. 84

The Gentrification of Inner Melbourne: A political geography of inner city housing by William Stewart Logan

Inner city residential areas of large Australian cities have, it is said, been transformed by a marauding band of the professional middle class. These people bought dwellings with ‘potential’, took up residence, and refurbished their houses back to their original state or into some dainty contemporary form. Such has been the demand placed upon this housing that a sharp escalation in house prices has resulted. Increasing costs associated with this rise have forced many old, long-term, working class residents – the traditional inner city occupants – out into distant suburbs. Thus, inner city residential areas are now dominated by the middle class.

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