I welcome today’s announcement by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that it will start negotiations to continue televising South Australian National Football League (SANFL) football and other local sport beyond the current season. This announcement is a pleasing response to last week’s resolution by the Senate, which I was pleased to sponsor with…
GRANT GOLDMAN: Now, Australians concerned about Julia Gillard’s carbon tax must speak now or forever hold their peace [almost]. That’s what Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham has said today. We have him on the line. Morning, Simon. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good morning, Grant. Good morning to your listeners. GRANT GOLDMAN: Yes, and I think you’ve picked up…
The Gillard Government’s refusal to release updated modelling on its carbon tax will today see a farcical first hearing of the Labor-Greens dominated shotgun inquiry into the legislation, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment and inquiry member Simon Birmingham said today. Treasury officials are among those appearing before the Joint Select Committee this…
Updated Treasury modelling on the Carbon Tax is worthless. The revised modelling, released only minutes before today’s Join Select Committee on the Carbon Tax legislation continues to rely upon the assumption that the United States will be part of a global trading system by 2016. Yet the chance of the United States…
GREG HUNT: At six minutes to this morning’s committee hearing, the Treasurer finally released the updated Treasury modelling. What we know from today is this the ‘world’s best Treasurer’ has the world’s worst modelling. This carbon tax modelling is worthless because it is based on a fantasy. It’s based on a fantasy, still, that the United…
The Labor-Greens dominated shotgun inquiry into Julia Gillard’s carbon tax legislation is descending from farce into high farce, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment and inquiry member Simon Birmingham said today. A committee already dominated by the legislation’s Labor-Green proponents, given just three weeks to inquire into more than 1100 pages, affording Australians…
Australians only have until this Thursday 22 September to make submissions to the shotgun parliamentary inquiry into Julia Gillard’s carbon tax. The Gillard Government thinks it’s reasonable for Australians to review and comment on over 1,100 pages of carbon tax legislation in a matter of days, having only called for submissions in Saturday’s…
The Gillard Government must release in full its updated carbon tax modelling, and do so well before Treasury’s appearance before a Parliamentary inquiry this Wednesday, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. Treasury officials have been scheduled to appear this Wednesday morning before the Joint Select Committee’s inquiry into the…
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: What we have today is new data from the [Australian] Trade and Industry Alliance that demonstrates that nine out of ten Australian jobs in manufacturing are in industries that will receive no compensation under the carbon tax. Every Australian job in the services sector is in an industry, in a business that will receive…
GARY HARDGRAVE: Simon Birmingham is a Liberal Senator from South Australia and he says only three days left if you want to lodge something on the and I’m going to use the word again carbon tax submission. I hate using the so called ‘C-bomb’. Simon Birmingham joins me. Only three days left what can…