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…
DAVID BEVAN: Now, people in South Australia have been waiting a long time for the Murray-Darling Basin plan to finally be released and implementation to start but the news today that the plan has been postponed yet again… … MATTHEW ABRAHAM: Simon Birmingham, just quickly, Coalition spokesperson Senator from South Australia on…
ELEANOR HALL: The head of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority today put the release of the draft Plan for the future of the Basin on hold again. The report was due to be released this week and was set to go to Parliament at the beginning of next year, but the Authority issued a statement today…
LEON BYNER: Now, ever since John Howard tried to take over the Murray-Darling Basin before Kevin07, there’s been a succession of debates, plans, policies, the appointment of a Murray-Darling Basin Authority, that itself lost its CEO over a matter of legal opinion the Water Act required economic impact to be held in the…
MATHIAS CORMANN: Simon Birmingham and I… we are meeting with South Australian families and businesses today to talk with them about the impact of the carbon tax on them. The carbon tax, of course, will push up the cost of everything, it will make Australia less competitive internationally, it will cost jobs, it’ll hurt…
ASHLEIGH GILLON: For more on this [News of the World phone hacking scandal] this morning, joining me on our panel of politicians is the Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change and Energy, Mark Dreyfus, and Simon Birmingham, the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment. We will get to some domestic political matters a little…