LEON BYNER: Now, wind farms have been very controversial because, first of all, they’re not cheap. We keep getting told that it’s cheap energy but it isn’t really because it’s heavily subsidised and, of course, if the people that build them have an issue where they need to connect to the grid, they want…
TREVOR SCOTT: … there’s no need for me to tell you that the River is the lifeblood of our community and many communities along the River and we’re still wondering how it’s going to pan out the Murray-Darling Basin and there seems that there may be some funding worries that we have…
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Julia Gillard stood at the Press Club earlier this year to announce September 14 as the election day but she said there were many more days of governing to come. What we’re now seeing, though, are instead days of stunts and days of campaigning, far from days of governing. The challenge for…
DAVID SPEERS: … as we heard before the break, Climate Change Minister Greg Combet reckons the Coalition’s plans on climate change are all over the shop, pointing to various comments today, particularly about what happens to businesses who are actually pretty happy with the carbon tax would they be compensated if it is…
KIERAN GILBERT: Let’s go to our panel now. In Melbourne, Labor Parliamentary Secretary for Trade Kelvin Thomson and in Adelaide, Liberal Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Water [the Murray-Darling Basin] and Environment Senator Simon Birmingham. Gentlemen, good morning. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Morning, Kieran. KELVIN THOMSON: Good morning, Kieran, Simon. … KIERAN GILBERT:…
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…
KEITH CONLON: Jane, you’ve probably seen the ads for the NBN, the National Broadband Network, this big pipe that’ll bring us high-speed everything and, indeed, it is… in the end, it’s about the future and not just in the home but in the business. How’s it going in South Australia? Well, it would appear…
STEVE PRICE: Now, forgive me if I sound confused over this next issue. As we all know, the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in what is seen as a highly unusual move, announced a fortnight ago the election date will be September 14. Depending on who you talk to, it’s either a masterstroke or a…
KIERAN GILBERT: … joining me now on the program are Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs Richard Marles and the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment, Senator Simon Birmingham. Gentlemen, good to see you this morning. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Morning. RICHARD MARLES: Morning. … RICHARD MARLES: … we go forward knowing that…
DAVID LIPSON: … welcome back to 2013 to our panellists for today, Labor MP Graham Perrett and Shadow Parliamentary Secretary Senator Simon Birmingham. Thank you so much for your time this morning, gentlemen. I want to start first with Barack Obama’s inauguration speech today. … DAVID LIPSON: Senator Birmingham, there was…