Australians should brace for a higher carbon tax and higher electricity prices following comments from Greens Leader Christine Milne, Acting Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Environment and Heritage Simon Birmingham said today. Senator Milne yesterday flagged a significantly higher carbon tax in the near future following the Government’s announcement of European linkage with…
NICK GRIMM: Australia and the European Union will be linked in what will become the world’s largest carbon market under a deal announced by Climate Change Minister Greg Combet today. Mr Combet said Australia was ditching its earlier plans to impose a floor price on carbon when the current fixed price carbon tax moves…
STEVE PRICE: Listening to that interview with Greg Combet is the acting Environment spokesman for the Coalition, Simon Birmingham Greg Hunt is on location in East Timor. Simon, thanks for your time. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good evening, Steve. Good evening to your listeners. STEVE PRICE: A $29 price where we’re going to…
JASON MORRISON: Look, I’m going to spare you the jargon in trying to explain this because jargon is how the political class nowadays confuse you into thinking they’re doing something good for you. Essentially, yesterday the Federal Government decided to ditch part of its carbon tax policy and that was as far as they…
KEITH CONLON: Well, it might be complicated but there’s been a big movement in the way in which a carbon tax and a carbon floor price and so on is going to happen in Australia. Greg Combet, the Minister involved on the Labor side federally, will be talking to Matthew [Pantelis] and to Kevin…
DAVID LIPSON: Welcome back and welcome, also, to Labor MP Rob Mitchell and Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham. Thanks for your time today, gentlemen. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good afternoon, David. ROB MITCHELL: Good afternoon, David. DAVID LIPSON: First to you, Senator. I want to ask you about this dental scheme $4.1 billion…
Less than two months into Labor’s carbon tax, the Gillard Government has announced a major backflip and redesign that only adds to the uncertainty and confusion surrounding its hugely expensive dud policy. The Government’s scramble to sort out international deals and abandon altogether its floor price confirms a carbon tax in chaos, Acting…
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: BHP Billiton’s indefinite deferral of the Olympic Dam project is potentially the most devastating blow to business confidence in South Australia since the State Bank disaster of the 1990s and this is a blow that potentially could have been avoided. Just a couple of months ago, BHP CEO Marius Kloppers was citing…
Reports today that Water Minister Tony Burke and Finance Minister Senator Wong have attacked those playing politics with the Murray-Darling Basin Plan provide a sharp rebuke of South Australian Labor Premier Jay Weatherill. Water Minister Tony Burke has warned that any MPs who vote against his plan for the Murray-Darling Basin will be…
LYNDAL CURTIS: It’s the second anniversary of the 2010 federal election. Although Australia then had to wait 17 days and for a 17-minute speech to find out that the Gillard Government had been returned to power. The Government marked the anniversary with reference to its achievements and the appointment of a new High Court…