NICK GRIMM: Australia and the European Union will be linked in what will become the world’s largest carbon market under a deal announced by Climate Change Minister Greg Combet today. Mr Combet said Australia was ditching its earlier plans to impose a floor price on carbon when the current fixed price carbon tax moves…
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: BHP Billiton’s indefinite deferral of the Olympic Dam project is potentially the most devastating blow to business confidence in South Australia since the State Bank disaster of the 1990s and this is a blow that potentially could have been avoided. Just a couple of months ago, BHP CEO Marius Kloppers was citing…
LYNDAL CURTIS: It’s the second anniversary of the 2010 federal election. Although Australia then had to wait 17 days and for a 17-minute speech to find out that the Gillard Government had been returned to power. The Government marked the anniversary with reference to its achievements and the appointment of a new High Court…
TREVOR SCOTT: … yesterday a little headline in The Advertiser grabbed my attention “New tax hits footy clubs” which… I went ‘hang on, what’s this all about?’ “SANFL clubs may be forced to cut back their community programs because of rising electricity costs.” Now, also yesterday, an email came to me from…
MATTHEW PANTELIS: Now, the SA Liberals have had their AGM on the weekend, during which, of course, Isobel Redmond came under the spotlight on leadership. It came at the end of a tumultuous three weeks, Ms Redmond revealing in that time revealing she considered standing for the Senate, then she left on a long…
KIERAN GILBERT: This afternoon our focus is on the battle over the power bill the Federal Government and the Opposition, the Commonwealth and the states each blaming each other for soaring electricity prices but is it all too late for Prime Minister Gillard to reframe this debate and why didn’t she take on…
JULIE DOYLE: Hello and welcome to Capital Hill. I’m Julie Doyle. Ford’s decision to cut hundreds of jobs in Victoria has put debate about Government handouts to the car industry at the front and centre again. Today we’ll discuss car subsidies and are they worth the cost? Joining me, in Melbourne, we have Labor…
KIERAN GILBERT: Joining us now, Labor frontbencher Mike Kelly here in the Canberra studio; in Adelaide, Liberal frontbencher Senator Simon Birmingham. Good to see you both, gentlemen. Mike, first to you… the asylum seeker panel today Angus Houston meeting with various representatives of the political parties… … KIERAN GILBERT: Senator Birmingham, there…
DAVID LIPSON: First, to more disturbing claims of sexual abuse within Defence. The full report from law firm DLA Piper has now been released and, among other things, outlines 24 cases of rape in the late ’90s alone and none of them are believed to have gone to trial. Also, claims that sections of…
CHRIS KENNY: I want to go to this other issue that was spruiked about by the Government on Sunday and Monday and that, of course, was the future of Whyalla Whyalla, the town that Tony Abbott and a prominent union leader said would be wiped off the map by the carbon tax. Now,…