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FIVEaa – Murray Darling Basin referendum proposal

Interview TranscriptsBy Senator Simon Birmingham22 January, 2010

  Good morning Tony, good morning Keith, listeners. Look, Minister Wong is being particularly misleading when it comes to Tony Abbott’s plan for a referendum, quite misleading. Nobody wants to wait until 2013, nobody hopes that we have to leave it ’til then to resolve once and for all management issues in the Basin but…

Sky News Australia – Coalition Murray Darling Basin policy

Interview TranscriptsBy Senator Simon Birmingham15 January, 2010

  (Leigh Hatcher: Joining us now from Adelaide is the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Murray Darling Basin, Simon Birmingham. Simon Birmingham, thanks for your time this morning. Hasn’t this idea been trialled in the past and failed?) Well no, not at all, Leigh. What Tony [Abbott] has outlined is a clear plan of action to tackle some…

891 ABC Adelaide – NSW floodwaters, national water management

Interview TranscriptsBy Senator Simon Birmingham8 January, 2010

  (Spence Denny: It’s fair to say that the relationship between South Australia and New South Wales is strained at the moment … it’s all to do with water … with the significant flood in New South Wales falling into the Murray Darling Basin area and making its way south but just how much of…

ABC News Breakfast, ABC2 – Basin management, Menindee Lakes inflows

Interview TranscriptsBy Senator Simon Birmingham7 January, 2010

  (Joe O’Brien: Opposition Murray Darling Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham says hundreds of billions of litres of water flowing from the Darling River into the Menindee Lakes in New South Wales will be wasted because of delays in processing long overdue infrastructure works. For more, Mr Birmingham joins us now from Adelaide. Simon Birmingham, good…

FIVEaa – National water management, Menindee Lakes

Interview TranscriptsBy Senator Simon Birmingham6 January, 2010

  (Mike Smithson: Simon, will the Premier’s letter to Kevin Rudd have any impact? Will it make a splash?) Good morning Mike and listeners. It’s very disappointing that the Premier finds himself so weak and hopeless in this debate that he has to now resort simply to firing off the occasional letter.  The problems we’re…

FIVEaa – Carols by Candlelight candle ban

Interview TranscriptsBy Senator Simon Birmingham21 December, 2009

  …we were a tad disorganised and didn’t have candles that we brought along with us, so there were electric light candles on sale at the venue which was fine. But either side of us there were a few groups of people who had candles with them… the types of candles that you light with a…

PM Agenda, Sky News – Emissions trading scheme legislation

Interview TranscriptsBy Senator Simon Birmingham3 December, 2009

  (David Speers: Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham… he is one who has been supporting Malcolm Turnbull but was not in the Senate chamber for this afternoon’s, well, no vote… there was no eventual vote as it turns out in the Senate. Simon Birmingham, why were you absent from the chamber first of all?)  David, good afternoon. I…

ABC News Breakfast, ABC2 – Emissions trading scheme legislation

Interview TranscriptsBy Senator Simon Birmingham27 November, 2009

  (Virginia Trioli: Good morning … It’s good and important to clarify, I guess, lines of allegiance this morning… it’s fair to say that you’re a supporter of Malcolm Turnbull?) Virginia, I’ve been very clear throughout this debate that I am a supporter of Malcolm Turnbull and I’m a supporter of action on climate change,…

891 ABC Adelaide – Emissions trading scheme legislation

Interview TranscriptsBy Senator Simon Birmingham27 November, 2009

  (Matthew Abraham: Good morning … Is Malcolm Turnbull dead in the water?) Absolutely not, Malcolm Turnbull has had a very good win, a win in terms of taking the Liberal Party forward into the future, as a party that stands for action on climate change and as a party that has negotiated an outcome on…

FIVEaa – Buyback of water entitlements

Interview TranscriptsBy Senator Simon Birmingham14 September, 2009

  (Byner: Simon Birmingham … what do you make of this? …) … I’ve been approached by numerous irrigators, water brokers and others … there are numerous problems, many of which you’ve already highlighted here … firstly for those irrigators, those farming families in South Australia’s Riverland who have been treated so unfairly, this is…

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