Taxpayers deserve transparency over Desal Plant funding

Federal and State Labor are both treating taxpayers with contempt by refusing to release information surrounding decisions to fund the Adelaid...

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Auditor-General slams federal Labor over Adelaide Desal Plant funding

Federal Labor Government decisions to fund the Adelaide Desalination Plant have been slammed in a damning report by the Commonwealth Auditor-G...

22

Hunt-Birmingham - Labor's high business costs hit Whyalla

Rising business costs, which are being exacerbated by factors such as the carbon tax and excessive regulation, have delivered a third major bl...

22

South Australia’s NBN rollout in disarray

“Labor’s failing of South Australians on broadband is plain for all to see and no amount of grandstanding by Senator Conroy and Kate Ellis can...

21

Taxpayers foot bill for Labor’s lavish carbon tax party

The Gillard Government spent nearly $17,000 of taxpayers’ money on a lavish party to launch its Carbon Cop, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for...

09

When the PM flies for free she goes to Rio... de Janeiro (but with more than 50 companions and costing taxpayers $850,000+)

Australian taxpayers have footed a bill approaching $1 million to send an extravagant 52 person delegation to a single three-day conference in...

15

Basin communities suffer land lock conditions

The Gillard Government should remove land use restrictions locking up thousands of hectares of previously irrigated land, Coalition Murray-Dar...

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Birmingham calls for urgent Murray-Darling Ministerial Council

Tony Burke must act to end the funding dispute engulfing the states and Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) which MDBA Chair Craig Knowles s...

13

South Australia’s NBN rollout in disarray: no connections in ‘volume rollout’

Labor’s failing of South Australians on broadband has been exposed in Senate Estimates overnight, Liberal Senator for South Australia Simon Bi...

12

Environment officials in dark on asylum boat dumping

Environment Department officials might have been turning a blind eye to the sinking of asylum seeker boats by the Gillard Government, Shadow P...

11

‘Pink Batts’ nasty legacy of lingering debts and write-offs

Australian taxpayers have officially lost millions of dollars more as a result of bad debts now written off under Labor’s disastrous ‘Pink Bat...

11

Company collapse adds to blowout in new Climate Change headquarters

Australian taxpayers are likely to wear a $1 million blowout in the cost of moving the Gillard Government’s climate change bureaucracy, largel...

18

Carbon tax cited in Penrice Soda closure

Penrice Soda has today announced it is closing Australia’s only soda ash production plant resulting in 60 job losses in Adelaide. “Th...

11

Desperate Georganas already trying to mislead voters

“The desperation of the Member for Hindmarsh, Steve Georganas MP, is on full show this week as he seeks to mislead voters in Hindmarsh,” Senat...

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Weatherill goes to water and into hiding over Murray deal

Jay Weatherill and the South Australian Government have extraordinarily passed on the opportunity to explain the benefits of his Murray-Darlin...

Senator Simon Birmingham

Liberal Senator for South Australia

Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray-Darling Basin

Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment

Welcome

Media Releases

Taxpayers deserve transparency over Desal Plant funding

Auditor-General slams federal Labor over Adelaide Desal Plant funding

Hunt-Birmingham - Labor's high business costs hit Whyalla

South Australia’s NBN rollout in disarray

Taxpayers foot bill for Labor’s lavish carbon tax party

When the PM flies for free she goes to Rio... de Janeiro (but with more than 50 companions and costing taxpayers $850,000+)

Basin communities suffer land lock conditions

Birmingham calls for urgent Murray-Darling Ministerial Council

South Australia’s NBN rollout in disarray: no connections in ‘volume rollout’

Environment officials in dark on asylum boat dumping

‘Pink Batts’ nasty legacy of lingering debts and write-offs

Company collapse adds to blowout in new Climate Change headquarters

Carbon tax cited in Penrice Soda closure

Desperate Georganas already trying to mislead voters

Weatherill goes to water and into hiding over Murray deal