Chairman of the Inquiry into the impact of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan in Regional Australia, Tony Windsor, must confirm if he knows more than the Government has let on about the Basin Plan. ?Mr Windsor has reportedly today suggested the Murray-Darling Basin Authority, now preparing a proposed Basin Plan, is revising downwards the…
DetailsALEXANDRA KIRK: As Tony Abbott takes his anti-carbon tax crusade to Western Australia for the next couple of days, the Opposition’s got hold of Labor’s draft plans for a $30 million taxpayer-funded advertising blitz slated for January last year. It’s centred on Kevin Rudd’s emissions trading scheme but was dumped as was his…
DetailsGARY HARDGRAVE: If you went to Nambour High, you probably almost want to disown the school. I went to MacGregor High and I never want to disown that school but it just beats me. Nambour High produced both Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan and both of them have made great virtues out of that. No offence to…
DetailsJulia Gillard must not dust off plans to use taxpayers’ money as part of a carbon tax sales pitch, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. It follows revelations, under Freedom of Information legislation, of the Labor Government’s plans for a multi-million dollar taxpayer funded political ad blitz in early…
DetailsLYNDAL CURTIS: Simon Birmingham and Nick Champion, welcome to News 24. NICK CHAMPION: Good morning [sic]. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good afternoon, Lyndal. G’day, Nick. LYNDAL CURTIS: The Government has not ruled out advertising to sell its carbon tax plan. That’s not something that has won the backing of either Tony Windsor or the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott,…
DetailsLabor and the Greens must rule out a taxpayer funded advertising campaign to sell their carbon tax, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. It follows strong signals in the last 24 hours from Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Greens Senator Christine Milne that a carbon tax advertising blitz is…
DetailsLEON BYNER: We’re talking today about this proposed carbon tax, its impact on South Australia … let’s talk to Simon Birmingham, Senator in South Australia for the Opposition. Good morning. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good morning, Leon, and good morning to your listeners. Leon, you and Haydon Manning [Department of Politics and Public Policy, Flinders University] this morning…
DetailsIt is untenable for the Water Minister and his newly appointed Chair of the MurrayDarling Basin Authority to neither express confidence in the Authority’s board nor explain why or how they plan to fix it, Coalition Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham said today. Tony Burke and Craig Knowles were both interviewed for a Four…
DetailsWater Minister Tony Burke must guarantee that neither he nor Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) Chair Craig Knowles encouraged Dr Diana Day to resign from the MDBA board, Coalition Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham said today. “Given recent media reports that Mr Knowles has been planning to sideline the board and Mr Burke planning to…
DetailsA Parliamentary inquiry should consider whether Water Minister Tony Burke has interfered with the independent Murray-Darling Basin Authority’s (MDBA’s) preparation of its Basin Plan, Coalition Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham said today. Senator Birmingham has written to the chair of an inquiry into the Basin Plan’s effects on regional Australia, Independent MP Tony Windsor,…
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