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…
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: The sad news today is that 60 jobs are now, of course, going to come to an end at Penrice down at Port Adelaide. This, of course, is a tragedy for the individual workers but the awful truth is that Labor Government policies are contributing to these job losses. Penrice, in their…
LAURA TCHILINGUIRIAN: … the Australian Federal Opposition has written a third letter to the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, about whaling in the Southern Ocean. It wants the Australian Government to send a Customs vessel to monitor any fights between protesters and the Japanese fleet. The Government has consistently said that sending a boat would…
CHRIS KENNY: … we’ve been talking just moments ago about the River Murray as a holiday destination, as a place where Kevin Foley likes to get up and relax a bit and hoon around on a speedboat, but I want to talk about serious issues related to the River Murray at the moment and…