Senator BIRMINGHAM (South Australia) (1:00 PM) -This Saturday, South Australian voters will face a real choice when they go to the polls in our state election, a choice between continuing the 15 years of shallow, spinning leadership by Mike Rann or the straight-talking real action of Isobel Redmond. Today I want to highlight three key…
The Rudd Government must consider compensating the home sustainability assessors it has messed around and left out of pocket through its mismanaged Green Loans program, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Action Simon Birmingham said today. The organisation representing assessors, and responsible for accreditation under the program, has put a range of proposals to…
ASLEIGH GILLON: Joining me here in our Canberra studio this morning is the Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham … Bill Shorten will be with us soon from Melbourne. Simon, before we start talking about reshuffles let’s just take a moment to recognise Nick Minchin’s contribution … of course he was in the Senate for some…
MATTHEW ABRAHAM: … we have in front of us an email forwarded by Simon Birmingham but it purports to be from Peter Whiteman, Manager, Building the Education Revolution Asset Services, Department of Education and Children’s Services … division … leading the way to improved learning environments for education communities … and it is a…
In her third year as Water Minister, Senator Wong has finally committed to a $100 million investment in on-farm water infrastructure, Coalition Murray Darling Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham said today “Minister Wong and Kevin Rudd promised $5.8 billion for water-saving projects under the Sustainable Rural Water Use and Infrastructure Program, yet only now…
LEON BYNER: …lets talk about water, there’s been enormous flooding in Queensland and New South Wales … obviously these waters flow and because we’re such a distance from Queensland and New South Wales, it takes time and there’s a lot evaporation and seepage and so on, but of course we have a State election…
Senator Birmingham: (South Australia) (12:44 PM) -It is my pleasure to speak on the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2009. It is a nicely named bill whose title makes it sound fairly innocuous, but it is a bill that strikes at the very heart of shareholder risk, sovereign risk and issues to…
Water from the current Queensland floodwaters will be wasted as result of ongoing delays in promised infrastructure works to the Menindee Lakes, Coalition Murray Darling Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham said today.? The second flood in the Darling catchment in three months will see run-off of 6,215 gigalitres of water, or more than six…
SONYA FELDHOFF: … right now there is a lot of focus on water flows given that we’re about to see some of the flows that were promised in an agreement back in January between Premier Mike Rann and New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally. Questions, though, are being asked by Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham, questions…
The Rudd Government has been unable to shed light on basic details of its commitment to remove foil insulation from more than 50,000 homes, Coalition Senators Simon Birmingham and Scott Ryan said today. The failure on detail comes a day after the foil removal, or installation of electrical safety switches, was announced as…