SENATOR BIRMINGHAM: (South Australia) (13:01): It is a pleasure to follow Senator Colbeck who, as always, has provided a very wise and thoughtful contribution. Certainly on this Minerals Resource Rent Tax Bill 2011 and associated bills, his contribution and analysis are spot on. I thought it would be useful in this debate today to go…
SENATOR BIRMINGHAM: (South Australia) (10:53): It is often a pleasure to follow Senator Faulkner in debates in this place and it is no less so on this occasion. As Senator Faulkner said in his concluding remarks, the threat of terrorism against Australians is real and the need to deal appropriately with all aspects of that…
South Australians and other Australians will only be more worried about electricity prices as they climb even more steeply under Julia Gillard’s carbon tax, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today His comments follow a poll showing that Australians are most concerned about electricity costs of all the major household…
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: It’s time for the Government to come clean about that fact that it’s got the Treasury modelling around its carbon tax so terribly, terribly wrong. They modelled on the basis that the world carbon price would be somewhere between $29 and $61. The reality is that the European ETS is currently trading…
SENATOR BIRMINGHAM (South Australia) (18:06): I come to this debate with a fairly firm belief. It is a belief that private investment in activities like health care is something that should be encouraged. It is a belief that the systems that we support out of this place-that are society, that are government, that are laws-should…
Penny Wong has today joined Wayne Swan in turning a blind eye to the mounting evidence that the Treasury modelling of Labor’s carbon tax is based on completely flawed assumptions of the world carbon price. Page 29 of the Treasury document Strong Growth, Low Pollution Modelling a Carbon Price states that “world…
SENATOR BIRMINGHAM (South Australia) (19:52): Many people grapple with new media and how it can be used for good and how we can ensure that, as a society, it achieves positive benefits. We have seen over recent years many social, political and corporate successes and failures as people have made different forays into the use of…
The Coalition’s Murray-Darling Basin spokesman, Simon Birmingham, is urging South Australians to make their voices heard on the draft Basin Plan. A public meeting in Renmark this afternoon is the last such meeting scheduled in South Australia by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority before formal consultation ends next month on the proposed Basin Plan…
LEON BYNER: Riverland locals have the chance to attend a public meeting today about the draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan and the meeting’s going to be at the Greek Orthodox Community Hall [in Renmark] and, again, you may not know where that is and you might think ‘Leon, why are we talking about this?’ Well,…
LEON BYNER: We have had a lot of flooding going on that’s been reported. I’ve been watching some of the extended news services just to see the length and breadth of flooding. Where I used to work years ago in Shepparton… not long away, Numurkah is virtually a town that’s accessible only by boat.…