LYNDAL CURTIS: Now to our panel and today we’re joined by Labor Senator Lisa Singh and Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham. Welcome to you both. LISA SINGH: Hi, Lyndal. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good afternoon, Lyndal. Hello, Lisa. LYNDAL CURTIS: Simon, if I could start with you, quickly, because the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott,…
DetailsROD TILEY: … happy to take your calls on whatever we’re talking about this afternoon or maybe something that’s on your mind. You may have a view on the health or the lack of it of the Swan and Canning river systems and, as Senator Simon Birmingham joins us now, a moment…
DetailsRUSSELL WOOLF: Senator Simon Birmingham is the Liberal Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment and joins us on Drive very shortly. The Swan and Canning Rivers were on the election agenda today and Senator Birmingham, the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment, was in Perth to announce the Coalition’s commitment to improve our Swan…
DetailsA Coalition Government will commit $1 million over two years to improve the environmental health of the Swan River. Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham announced the Coalition’s Swan-Canning River Recovery Programme with Member for Swan Steve Irons today. “The Swan River is an iconic feature of Perth as well…
DetailsKIERAN GILBERT: … I’m joined from Adelaide by Liberal frontbencher Senator Simon Birmingham. Senator Birmingham, on this announcement by Kevin Rudd today committing in the long term to a lot of money to the automotive industry, pivotal in your state, is this potentially a risk to your Liberal counterparts in a number of those…
DetailsBurpengary Creek will be one of the first sites to benefit from the Coalition’s 15,000-strong Green Army. Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham today announced that, if elected, a Coalition government would undertake a major riparian repair and boardwalk project along the fringe of creek. The work will involve the…
DetailsKIERAN GILBERT: Let’s go now to… we’ll bring in Liberal frontbencher Senator Simon Birmingham, who joins us from Adelaide. Senator Birmingham, thanks for joining us this Saturday evening. I want to ask you first of all… your reaction to the opinion polls today… you’ve got to be encouraged by them the Galaxy and…
DetailsKEITH CONLON: … a local Member, a local Labor Member in South Australia, is in the news and he has been accused of a lie that doesn’t get much bigger that’s what Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham says about a claim Nick Champion makes about Holden [GM Holden Ltd]. JANE REILLY: And Nick…
DetailsKIERAN GILBERT: Joining me now from Brisbane, Liberal frontbencher Senator Simon Birmingham and, in Adelaide, Labor frontbencher Amanda Rishworth. Amanda Rishworth, first to you on this likely rate cut later today. It is going to take the rates… official cash rate to well below what was previously described as emergency levels by the Gillard/Rudd…
DetailsKevin Rudd is already reaping more in carbon tax receipts this year than was forecast under Julia Gillard and, if re-elected, by 2016-17 would again be reaping even more again. Buried in the detail of yesterday’s Economic Statement* is that: · Kevin Rudd is now estimating $6.435 billion in carbon tax receipts…
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