Carly Learson

  • How Our Stupidity On Climate Change Will Cost Us More Money

    Kevin Rudd today announced he would bring the Emissions Trading Scheme forward by a year. Currently, around 500 big businesses pay about $25 for every tonne of carbon dioxide they emit. This fixed price will now be scrapped a year earlier than planned...

  • A Few Words on Kevin Rudd

    Finally, Kevin Rudd has his revenge. Julia Gillard had barely reached Yaralumla when he sent out an email with the headline: Prime Minister to address the media. His speech had been written and practiced, over and over again. Like a church Minister...

  • Some People Who Have Screwed the Labor Party, Including Some People From the Labor Party

    A look at the history of this Government shows that it has a track record of success in getting things done, but a propensity to distract voters from those achievements through a lack of discipline and some terrible PR decisions.

  • How to Oversimplify a Budget

    The Australian public is accustomed to having complicated and complex information spelled out for them in an oversimplified way, and Vice will not divert from that tradition at all.

  • Is the Chinese Government Spying on us Through the Internet?

    Huawei is the largest telecom equipment maker in the world, able to roll out broadband quicker and cheaper than anyone else. However, sometimes things are cheap because there's something a bit off about them. Now the Coalition wants to let them bid on...

  • Polls Are Dumb

    If you look at the polls, you'd think that Australia ws being run by Berlusconi.