DAVID BEVAN: … we’re going to talk to Senator Don Farrell. Now, he’s a South Australian Labor Senator. He’s Parliamentary Secretary for Urban Water and he’s bought into the debate over recycled water. Remember we had this debate here in South Australia about… just over a year ago during the state election campaign. MATTHEW ABRAHAM: And it’s…
DAVID BEVAN: Now, something that we have just escaped from and that is the drought. We’ve had years of drought. The River Murray looked like it was in serious… well, it didn’t look like it, it was in serious, serious strife and yet when the Murray-Darling Basin Commission [Murray-Darling Basin Authority] said ‘you need to change…
LEON BYNER: … moving to water, because what is interesting is that, as you know, some months ago we had a nasty drought and then Mother Nature gave us a wonderful reprieve but a key parliamentary inquiry into the River Murray [House of Representatives Standing Committee on Regional Australia inquiry into the impact of…
The Gillard Government is keeping taxpayers in the dark on its carbon tax agenda to such an extent that it’s now being selectively secretive about the timing of decisions supposedly taken by its so-called ‘multi-party’ committee, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. “As if it isn’t bad enough that…
Labor is refusing to comply with the requirement of a Senate Estimates Committee in its latest attempt to shield the National Broadband Network (NBN) from proper scrutiny, Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham said today. Senator Birmingham described a letter* from the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy stating its refusal to meet…