Everywhere Man Josh Frydenberg: The minister who could make or break the Turnbull government

Josh Frydenberg has always been a man in a hurry.

The scene when Josh Frydenberg's press
conference in South Australia was crashed
by state Premier Jay Weatherill.

By 35, he had achieved honours degrees in law and economics, studied at Oxford and Harvard, advised Alexander Downer and John Howard, and been head of global banking at Deutsche Bank. Determined to enter Parliament, he tried to blast long-time member Petro Georgiou out of Kooyong - a prestigious Melbourne seat that had been held by Liberal Party founder Robert Menzies. He lost. But by the next election in 2010 the seat was his.

A prodigious networker and media performer, Frydenberg was touted as a potential future leader as soon as he arrived in Canberra. No job, it seemed, would be enough to contain his enthusiasm and ambition. Then Malcolm Turnbull found it. 

Read Matthew Knott’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “Everywhere Man Josh Frydenberg: The minister who could make or break the Turnbull government.”

Proposed carbon emissions were set to save lives

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ew carbon emissions standards that were proposed last year for coal-fired power plants in the United States would substantially improve human health and prevent more than 3,000 premature deaths per year, according to a new study.

The study, led by researchers at Syracuse and Harvard Universities, used modeling to predict the effect on human health of changes to national carbon standards for power plants. The researchers calculated three different outcomes using data from the Census Bureau and detailed maps of the more than 2,400 fossil-fuel power plants across the country.

The model with the biggest health benefit was the one that most closely resembled the changes that the Environmental Protection Agency proposed in a rule in June.

Read The New York Times story here: “E.P.A. Carbon Emissions Plan Could Save Thousands of Lives, Study Finds”.