LEON BYNER: Riverland locals have the chance to attend a public meeting today about the draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan and the meeting’s going to be at the Greek Orthodox Community Hall [in Renmark] and, again, you may not know where that is and you might think ‘Leon, why are we talking about this?’ Well,…
LEON BYNER: We have had a lot of flooding going on that’s been reported. I’ve been watching some of the extended news services just to see the length and breadth of flooding. Where I used to work years ago in Shepparton… not long away, Numurkah is virtually a town that’s accessible only by boat.…
LEON BYNER: Now, do you remember a couple of years ago I deciphered… I went to a lawyer because the language was just so unbelievable that it was very hard to kind of decipher, so I went to a Senior Counsel, spent a bit of time with him and he deciphered the Copenhagen treaty…
KIERAN GILBERT: With me now on the program, Labor MP Andrew Leigh and Liberal frontbencher Simon Birmingham. Gentlemen, good morning to both of you. ANDREW LEIGH: Morning, Kieran. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Morning, Kieran. KIERAN GILBERT: Andrew, I’ll start where I started with the Minister [Chris Evans, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills Science…
KEITH CONLON: The Prime Minister’s in town, she’ll be in the northern suburbs today, so will the Premier Jay Weatherill. In the ‘Tiser today you’ll see the Premier is very impassioned about the Murray, of course he is, he wants to talk to the Prime Minister about it. Senator Simon Birmingham … he definitely…
LEON BYNER: Now, AGL is to apply [AGL South Australia Pty Ltd has applied] to the regulator for an increase in power prices of $150 annually. They blame the carbon tax. It’s worth remembering that Greg Combet promised a 9 per cent increase on electricity prices, with compensation based on that Treasury modelling, not on…
PETER VAN ONSELEN: You get media releases all the time from politicians. Sometimes they’re interesting; 99.9 per cent of the time they are not. An example of one that’s not, from the Greens, that came in yesterday: they welcome Rio’s attempt to protect the new crab. God, who cares? Let’s be honest. I mean,…
PAUL MURRAY: Well, you just heard John O’Donnell, the branch president of the communication workers union in WA [Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union], saying that this labour hire system to get the NBN [National Broadband Network] built in WA… he thinks that the rates are so low that it’s going to end up as…
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Yesterday in Senate Estimates it was revealed that this Labor Government has spent more than a million dollars of taxpayers’ money on focus groups, on polling and market research into their carbon tax; that they’re giving around $100,000 to the ACTU [Australian Council of Trade Unions] to help union officials sell the carbon tax;…
NINA MAY: The Prime Minister has criticised Opposition tactics blaming the carbon tax for potential job losses in the aluminium sector. LEIGH HATCHER: Alcoa has announced it’s reviewing the viability of its Victorian smelter, putting hundreds of jobs at risk. We’re live to Canberra now Sky News chief political reporter Kieran Gilbert.…