GREG HUNT: At six minutes to this morning’s committee hearing, the Treasurer finally released the updated Treasury modelling. What we know from today is this the ‘world’s best Treasurer’ has the world’s worst modelling. This carbon tax modelling is worthless because it is based on a fantasy. It’s based on a fantasy, still, that the United…
GARY HARDGRAVE: Simon Birmingham is a Liberal Senator from South Australia and he says only three days left if you want to lodge something on the and I’m going to use the word again carbon tax submission. I hate using the so called ‘C-bomb’. Simon Birmingham joins me. Only three days left what can…
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: What we have today is new data from the [Australian] Trade and Industry Alliance that demonstrates that nine out of ten Australian jobs in manufacturing are in industries that will receive no compensation under the carbon tax. Every Australian job in the services sector is in an industry, in a business that will receive…
HOWARD SATTLER: And if you think the Government wouldn’t manipulate the support or otherwise for this [carbon] tax, this series of tax bills there’s 18 of them, by the way listen to this. They total 1,100 pages of legislation. Guess how long you’ve got to respond to make submissions you, if you’re an organisation…
BARNABY JOYCE: The purpose of this is that I think we have had enough of this ridiculous process where we are relying on information from the ‘South Tumut Advocate‘ to determine where the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is going. We seem to have this continual leak of information into certain regional newspapers, and God bless them…
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Julia Gillard has said she wants Australia to be on the right side of history in the climate change debate. Well, if you look at what those participants in the global carbon market say and have told the World Bank, 90 per cent of them or thereabouts are pessimistic about the likelihood of…
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Compare and contrast Labor’s approach to the carbon tax legislation with what the Howard Government did with the GST [Goods and Services Tax]. Firstly, the big difference John Howard took the GST to an election; Julia Gillard has run scared from having the people decide the fate of her carbon tax campaign.…
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Labor has at every opportunity taken the chance to raise the hype and expectation surrounding its NBN in South Australia, especially at last year’s federal election where it was a cornerstone of their campaign. What we see now, though, are delays, cost blowouts and uncertainty. While the Coalition believes there is a better way,…
CHRIS LEWIS: [Barnaby Joyce, Shadow Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Water] … does have a sense of humour regarding this new delay for the release of the draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan. He reckons it’s now a race between who comes first Santa or the draft Basin Plan. I mean, this Plan’s been put…
KIERAN GILBERT: With me this morning, now, we’ve got the Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change, Mark Dreyfus, and from Adelaide the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment, Senator Simon Birmingham. Gentlemen, good morning to you both. MARK DREYFUS: Morning, Kieran. Morning, Simon. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Morning, Kieran. Morning, Mark. KIERAN GILBERT: Fellas, I want to ask you both…