HOWARD SATTLER: The Federal Government’s confirmed today it’s going to spend $12 million of taxpayers’ money on its campaign to advertise promote, in other words the emissions trading scheme. Climate Change Minister Greg Combet, who hasn’t got time to talk with us today about this thank you, Greg, for nothing said the…
JOHN BARRON: The Federal Government continued its drive to sell the carbon tax yesterday with Treasurer Wayne Swan releasing Treasury modelling to support his claim that the tax would have no significant impact on jobs or economic growth. The Government is hoping to finalise negotiations on the tax this month and make details of its plan…
JOURNALIST: First of all, what are your thoughts on the Australian Energy Market Commission report that says electricity prices will rise between 20 to 40 per cent by 2013? SIMON BIRMINGHAM: It’s a 30 per cent rise in electricity prices that Australians are facing and that’s without a carbon tax, so Australians really will be…
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Electricity is not a luxury. It’s an essential good. What we see today are reports that electricity prices are going up by 30 per cent or more and that’s before you factor in a carbon price. Clearly, a carbon tax will push electricity up even more than the 30 per cent that’s already forecast over…
KATHRYN STOLARCHUK: And joining us now from Adelaide is the Opposition Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment, Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham. Senator, firstly on these new emissions standards for vehicles, the Government has admitted that these measures will come with a cost, so does the Opposition support it? SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Well, good afternoon and, look, in principle…
DAVID SPEERS: So does this report undermine the Coalition’s argument that a carbon tax would unfairly punish Australian exporters? I’m joined now from Adelaide by the Acting Shadow Climate Change Minister [Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment], Senator Simon Birmingham. Senator, thanks for joining us. The Productivity Commission looked at more than a thousand different measures in…
Wayne Swan should explain why he’s hiding important work about Labor’s planned carbon tax from the Australian people. Today Mr Swan has made selective references to a Productivity Commission report into carbon pricing in other countries; a report he received last week but has not yet publicly released as had been promised. …
KIERAN GILBERT: Let’s go to our panel now and joining me from Adelaide we have the Liberal frontbencher Senator Simon Birmingham and in Sydney we have the Member for Moreton, Labor MP Graham Perrett. Gentlemen, good morning to you both. Senator Birmingham, first, what’s the Coalition’s response to this? Do you welcome this suspension of all live…
The Coalition welcomes the released report of the House of Representatives inquiry into the impact of the Guide to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan as a way of getting Labor’s shambolic Murray-Darling process back on track, said Senator Joyce and Senator Birmingham today. “The Committee’s report clearly spelled out that the current Labor Government’s…
MICHAEL SMITH: In the scheme of the Rudd and Gillard Governments, not huge money but it’s $8 million to develop the sort of panels, the solar panels, that go on your roof and generate electricity. That $8 million, or a large part of it $5 million came from your taxes through AusIndustry with…