Capital Hill, ABC News 24 – Labor-Greens alliance; federal election; Community Cabinet

  LYNDAL CURTIS: The election year has begun to focus the minds of politicians on the relationships that count and the Greens have declared their relationship with Labor over – sort of – saying the Prime Minister has effectively ended the agreement between the parties. Labor, meanwhile, has been soaking up the friendship from one…

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South Australia’s NBN rollout in disarray: no connections in ‘volume rollout’

  Labor’s failing of South Australians on broadband has been exposed in Senate Estimates overnight, Liberal Senator for South Australia Simon Birmingham said today.   Under questioning from Senator Birmingham, NBN Co confirmed a failure to connect any South Australians to the National Broadband Network (NBN) in the 19 months of its so-called ‘volume rollout’.…

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‘Pink Batts’ nasty legacy of lingering debts and write-offs

  Australian taxpayers have officially lost millions of dollars more as a result of bad debts now written off under Labor’s disastrous ‘Pink Batts’ Home Insulation Program, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham has said today.   The Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency has told a Senate Estimates hearing they are…

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Clean Energy Bills 2012

Senator BIRMINGHAM (South Australia) (18:04): I rise to speak on the Clean Energy Amendment (International Emissions Trading and Other Measures) Bill 2012, which is part of a package of legislation that once again demonstrates— The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Order! Senator Birmingham, I am sorry. Order, please! If you are not participating, could you leave the…

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