Julia Gillard has been caught out grossly exaggerating the impact of Labor’s water buybacks during her visit to Adelaide this week, Coalition Murray Darling Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham said today. Ms Gillard claimed that “Labor has bought back one out of every 20 litres of the Murray-Darling Basin’s irrigation water and returned it…
Labor’s blank cheque on water buybacks poses questions that Julia Gillard and Penny Wong are yet to answer. Simon Birmingham, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin, asked “has anybody in the Government seen the draft Basin Plan to which Labor has unreservedly committed?” “Julia Gillard has said she hasn’t seen…
Penny Wong has today confessed that after three years of failure and missed opportunities for the Murray Darling Basin another term in office for Labor would mean more of the same, Coalition Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham said today. “I can tell you what a re-elected Gillard Government will do we will continue…
The Coalition’s Murray-Darling Basin spokesman has today indicated he is willing to debate his Labor counterpart any time and anywhere on the future of the Murray Darling Basin. Senator Simon Birmingham was today responding to Penny Wong’s desperate attempt to divert attention from her Government’s inaction: “… I am laying down a challenge…
Boothby will become home to three of the first Green Army projects to be supported in Australia under the Coalition’s Green Army Plan. Federal Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Action, Senator Simon Birmingham, and Federal Member for Boothby, Andrew Southcott, said that if a Coalition Government was elected Seacliff, Brighton, Brownhill Creek, Mitcham…
Restoration of a section of the River Torrens Linear Park will become one of the first Green Army projects to be supported in Australia, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Action Simon Birmingham announced today. Senator Birmingham and Liberal candidate for Hindmarsh, Jassmine Wood, said that if a Coalition Government is elected, an area…
The Coalition is committed to the responsible conservation of our scarce water resources. The state of our stressed river systems and the increasing demand on existing water resources from a growing population mean we must get smarter with the way we use this precious resource. All too often we wastefully use the…
The Coalition will deliver real action on stormwater harvesting in Adelaide by providing $16.5 million towards the commencement of the ‘Waterproofing Eastern Adelaide’ project. This commitment will help ensure that this important stormwater harvesting project proceeds. The project involves harvesting stormwater from the Torrens River when it rains and when most…
Penny Wong has resorted to desperate stunts to divert attention from her Government’s lack of attention to the plight of the Murray-Darling Basin, Coalition Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham said today. “… I am laying down a challenge to Barnaby Joyce: Barnaby, release your water policy and come here to Adelaide and debate me…
MICHAEL KEELAN: I was chatting about the water restrictions going out to seven hours and really, our problem here is … we’re managing here from the home gardener point of view or the householder point of view but it’s really the Murray Darling Basin, that’s where the problem is and still is. Simon Birmingham…