From: Prodos
Phone: 9428 1234

Dear Friends,

I invite you to join us this Monday evening (October 26) to meet ....

Dr Alan Moran of the Institute of Public Affairs, who will talk about - and take your questions on ....

This is your opportunity to learn from one of Australia's best, straight-shooting Economists.

As well as being head of the Deregulation Unit of the Institute of Public Affairs and having received the Melbourne Capitalism Award for his work in helping Victoria and Australia move towards a more free market - or at least a less unfree one! - Dr Moran has in recent times addressed the Heartland Institute International Conference on Climate Change in New York.

At that gathering Dr Moran presented his own papers AND rubbed shoulders with the world's leading Climate Skeptics and Rejectionists, including: Lord Christopher Monckton, Ross McKitrick, Fred Singer, Bob Carter, Michael Economides, Ann McElhinney & Phelim McAleer (do you recognize those names?), Steven Milloy, Barun Mitra, Vaclav Klaus, John Stossel, Roy Spencer, and many others.

Would you like to ask him anything about any of that?

Or about any of the following ... ?

What exactly is an ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme)? In simple terms, how does it work? What is it meant to do?
Is an ETS - as so many have claimed - really a "market solution"?
What is the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme?
What are the consequences of taxing carbon dioxide emissions?
What about so-called renewables such as solar or wind power?
What about nuclear energy?
The effect on the coal industry is obvious, but what about the effects of an ETS or Carbon Tax on manufacturing? Transport? Agriculture?
Is it possible to tax carbon with one hand but offset the overall harm by offering tax cuts with the other?
Are "Green Jobs" efficient? Practical?
The effect on REAL jobs?
What is - or should be - the job of a serious economist in assessing alternative carbon reduction policies?
What about "encouraging" low carbon technologies?
What about Carbon Capture?
Does "The Science" matter? i.e. Does it matter whether or not CO2 drives warming?
What about the legal instruments that would be put in place to set up and administer an ETS? What has been proposed by the Australian government and other governments and international bodies?
The effect on Australia's standard of living? Wealth? Capital? Rate of growth?
Has anyone yet tested Carbon Taxing? Green Job "creation"? Funding "renewables" technologies? Shooting themselves through the head? If so, are any consequences yet evident?
Why won't China and India submit to Gaia's commands? Blasphemers! Heretics!
How did we get to this point?
Personal non-Economist observations about the Warmists and Alarmists?

Venue: Hollywood Palace (cafe), 179 Bridge Road, Richmond
Time: Presentation and chaired discussion starts 7.30 PM sharp and concludes 9.30 PM sharp.
(But Barboo and I will be there from 6.30, setting up and having dinner. Join us if you want to!)
Cost: A donation is greatly appreciated.

Best Wishes,

PRODOS
Phone: 9428 1234

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• Saturday October 31: Lunch with Sydney-based free market activist, poet, and political mover and shaker, Michael Darby
  
• Monday November 02: (No meeting)
  
• Monday November 09: Penny Gamlin talks about her experiences in Sudan
  
• Monday November 16: Rabbi Dr Shimon Cowen: How Judaism views Free Will, Creativity, Self-ownership
  
• Monday November 23: Gilla discusses the story books of Antonia Forest
  
• Monday November 30: Ron Manners visits us from Perth to talk about his new book and the Heroic Misadventures of a libertarian
  

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