TONY ABBOTT: It’s good to be here at OneSteel here in Whyalla with Simon Birmingham, the Senator for South Australia. This is a very important industrial plant for Whyalla, for South Australia and for our whole country. It’s along with the BlueScope plant at Port Kembla the largest steel making facility in Australia…
HOWARD SATTLER: … a proposed carbon tax. The Government is digging its heels in. The Gillard Government just won’t see the light on this one and doesn’t recognise that just about everybody bar it is against this carbon tax sorry, bar it and the Greens but the unions are against it, the employers are…
LEON BYNER: Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham has visited us in the studio. Simon, tell us what you want the people of South Australia to know. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Well Leon, listeners, it’s great to be here and obviously Tony Abbott has highlighted a lot of the key issues around the carbon tax but today we’ve seen…
TOM TILLEY: Simon Birmingham is the acting Opposition spokesman on Climate Change and I spoke to him about today’s story, the mounting opposition to Labor’s carbon tax, just a moment ago. Simon, we’re seeing a growing number of voices joining the chorus of complaint about the Government’s carbon tax. Is the Opposition just another…
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: I want to touch on two matters today firstly, the matter of Wayne Hanson’s comments from the AWU and, secondly, the meeting today of the Multi-Party Committee on Climate Change in Canberra. Firstly, in relation to the AWU… We have a union leader, another union leader, bell the cat on the…
DI COVENY GARLAND: On the line, Simon Birmingham, the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change and the Environment. Good Morning, Simon. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good morning, Dianne. How are you? DI COVENY GARLAND: Oh well, It’s Monday. Things have got to look up, haven’t they? SIMON BIRMINGHAM: I can hear you now. …
DAVID BEVAN: … we’re going to talk to Senator Don Farrell. Now, he’s a South Australian Labor Senator. He’s Parliamentary Secretary for Urban Water and he’s bought into the debate over recycled water. Remember we had this debate here in South Australia about… just over a year ago during the state election campaign. MATTHEW ABRAHAM: And it’s…
LYNDAL CURTIS: Hello and welcome to Capital Hill. In the midst of a bitter political debate, we’re seeing some areas of commonality between the Opposition and the Government. One of those is the need for welfare reform, but just how to accomplish the task? The other area of agreement is on the need for the body set…
LEON BYNER: … moving to water, because what is interesting is that, as you know, some months ago we had a nasty drought and then Mother Nature gave us a wonderful reprieve but a key parliamentary inquiry into the River Murray [House of Representatives Standing Committee on Regional Australia inquiry into the impact of…
DAVID BEVAN: Now, something that we have just escaped from and that is the drought. We’ve had years of drought. The River Murray looked like it was in serious… well, it didn’t look like it, it was in serious, serious strife and yet when the Murray-Darling Basin Commission [Murray-Darling Basin Authority] said ‘you need to change…