Climate Tasmania

A Tasmanian take on the thorniest global issue since the dinosaurs. Based on Peter Boyer’s newspaper column in the Hobart Mercury.

Climate gets a leg up, but questions remain in the new government

Tasmania’s first climate change minister is a positive note for the new Labor-Green ministry, but the proof of the pudding will be in the eating. [27 April 2010 | Peter Boyer]
At last we have a government. A bit cobbled together, not a neat Labor or Liberal package like we’ve been used to, but it seems to [...]

How party greed is perverting democratic intentions

The voters have spoken: they care about climate and environmental issues and they want this to be expressed in the makeup of Parliament. But there’s an obstacle — the attitude of Labor and Liberal leaders to those not-so-new kids on the block, the Greens. [30 March 2010 | Peter Boyer]
Hare-Clark — what a wonderful voting system! [...]

The politics of climate in Tasmania

Concerned Hobart citizens have drafted an achievable set of strategies that would be an excellent basis for government policy for Tasmania. A campaign by Climate Action Hobart will seek to bring climate policy to the fore in the coming Tasmanian elections. [20 February 2010 | Peter Boyer]
Address to “Climate Solutions” rally, Parliament House, Hobart, 20 February [...]