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KIERAN GILBERT: This is AM Agenda.  Thanks for your company.  With me now Parliamentary Secretary for Environment, Senator Simon Birmingham, and the Shadow Financial Services Minister, Bernie Ripoll.  Gentlemen, good morning.  Senator Birmingham, first to you.  Barnaby Joyce on the front page of The Australian, this story about a rural reconstruction and development bank.  He…

Celebrating 40 years of the Ramsar Convention in Australia

On World Wetlands Day today we celebrate Australia’s significant contribution to the global wetland conservation movement. This year marks the 40th anniversary of Cobourg Peninsula in the Northern Territory, being listed as the world’s first Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention. Through a number of governments there has been bipartisan recognition that our…

$11 million to support Murray-Darling Basin irrigation in Queensland

The Australian Government will inject $11 million into Queensland’s Murray-Darling Basin communities to improve the efficiency of irrigation in the catchment.  Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment Senator Simon Birmingham and Queensland Minister for Natural Resources and Mines Andrew Cripps said the funding would provide much needed upgrades to the resources and agriculture…