Unanswered questions on the future of the River Murray should be addressed at a Basin Plan public meeting in Adelaide today, Coalition Murray-Darling Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham said. The meeting at the Adelaide Convention Centre today from 10am is the last such one scheduled by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority before formal consultation ends…
Labor’s carbon tax is perversely about to make it harder to help the environment, Acting Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Environment and Heritage Simon Birmingham said today. Plastics recycling companies are warning they will have to cut hundreds of jobs or go broke due to soaring electricity costs. The Gillard Government expects…
The Auditor-General’s report into the conduct of the Australia Network tender is a damning indictment of the handling of this tender by both Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy. It demonstrates that the dysfunction at the heart of this Government is responsible for the ultimate corruption of this $223 million…
KIERAN GILBERT: We’re now going to cross to Adelaide Liberal frontbencher Senator Simon Birmingham, spokesman for the Coalition on Murray-Darling and [in the Senate see below] Communications. Senator, thanks for your time. First of all, can I get your thoughts on this [Australia21] report and the prominent Australians calling for a rethink…
ELEANOR HALL: The Auditor-General today flayed the Federal Government over its tender process for the Australia Network contract, pointing to several serious flaws in the process. The Auditor General’s report, which was released this morning, says the process cost the two tenderers the ABC and Sky News time and money. …