The switchover to digital TV in regional South Australia will cost many hotels, motels and caravan parks thousands of dollars in areas where terrestrial TV transmission towers aren’t being upgraded, Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham said today. It could cost tourism operators up to $750 to convert each TV to digital satellite under the…
SIMON ROYAL: Residents of the South Australian town of Truro are taking their fight over digital television to Canberra. They’re furious at the extra costs they’ll have to pay to install individual satellite dishes to receive the signal when it’s switched over. This, mind you, is for free-to-air TV the stuff you’re watching…
“Julia Gillard must today reveal why the Federal Labor Government’s smoke and mirrors funding con will leave South Australians paying higher water bills,” Coalition Murray-Darling Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham said today. Labor promised $328 million to South Australia for the desalination plant at Port Stanvac. The Australian Government will commit a further…
The Gillard Government is set to waste millions more of taxpayers’ dollars on a ‘phase 2’ carbon tax advertising campaign assault on the very same taxpayers, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today The Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency has revealed in response to a question asked…
Labor’s carbon tax will be a disincentive for efficient irrigation water use and penalise some of Australia’s most efficient water users, Coalition Murray-Darling Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham said today. Irrigation water suppliers are warning that rising electricity bills will see an average irrigator’s water bill jump by $282, on top of the increased…
The ABC’s reports today that Water Minister Tony Burke won’t support a bad Murray-Darling Basin Plan expose his hypocrisy and political game playing, Coalition Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham said. ?On 4 April this year Minister Burke wrote to the Leader of the Opposition stating: ? ?”I have been concerned with recent statements you…
Tony Burke’s call for the Coalition to decide on the draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan treats the notion of consultation with contempt, the Coalition says today. “Dear Tony, I hear that you want to know our position on the draft basin plan? I didn’t know you had made up your mind. I didn’t realise…
A $190 hike in electricity prices is only the first such hit Canberra households will face under the carbon price and is an example of what all Australians will pay, Acting Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Environment and HeritageSimon Birmingham warned today. The ACT Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission has release its draft…
CHRIS UHLMANN: Today offered another insight into the dysfunction at the heart of the Gillard Government during its simmering leadership tensions. An Auditor-General’s report declared the flawed tender process for the overseas television service cast the Government in a poor light and raised questions about its fairness. The tender panel twice recommended Sky TV…
ANDREW GREENE: Hello and welcome to Capital Hill. I’m Andrew Greene on a day of dramatic developments in two long-awaited investigations troubling the Gillard Government. First, this morning, the Commonwealth Auditor-General highlighted a series of flaws in the Government’s handling of the tender for the Australia Network contract. Then, hours later, Fair Work Australia…