PETER MARES: While Special Minister of State Senator Joe Ludwig hasn’t yet had time to take a serious look at the questionable use of how-to-vote cards in the South Australian election, other politicians at state and federal level have vowed to push for reform. Labor’s deployment of blue T-shirted Family First look-alikes at polling booths in…
MATTHEW ABRAHAM: … we have in front of us an email forwarded by Simon Birmingham but it purports to be from Peter Whiteman, Manager, Building the Education Revolution Asset Services, Department of Education and Children’s Services … division … leading the way to improved learning environments for education communities … and it is a…
ASLEIGH GILLON: Joining me here in our Canberra studio this morning is the Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham … Bill Shorten will be with us soon from Melbourne. Simon, before we start talking about reshuffles let’s just take a moment to recognise Nick Minchin’s contribution … of course he was in the Senate for some…
LEON BYNER: …lets talk about water, there’s been enormous flooding in Queensland and New South Wales … obviously these waters flow and because we’re such a distance from Queensland and New South Wales, it takes time and there’s a lot evaporation and seepage and so on, but of course we have a State election…
SONYA FELDHOFF: … right now there is a lot of focus on water flows given that we’re about to see some of the flows that were promised in an agreement back in January between Premier Mike Rann and New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally. Questions, though, are being asked by Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham, questions…
MATTHEW ABRAHAM: Simon Birmingham is the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Action… South Australian Senator… Simon Birmingham, good morning. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good morning Matthew, David, listeners. MATTHEW ABRAHAM: You want to respond to Penny Wong on the Green Loans scheme. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Thanks, Matt. I didn’t hear all of Penny but I…
KIERAN GILBERT: Welcome back to AM Agenda, joining me now from Adelaide the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Action, Senator Simon Birmingham. Good morning Senator. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good morning Kieran. KIERAN GILBERT: And in Sydney the Parliamentary Secretary for Employment, Jason Clare. Jason thanks for coming in and I’ll start with you.…
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Kevin Rudd is really misrepresenting the conclusions from Minter Ellison in that regard. There are three separate instances in the Minter Ellison Risk Register, the final copy that Minter Ellison provided to the Government, where it says that the risk is not tolerable and it recommended a delayed scheme and other actions…
JOE O’BRIEN: As we’ve been hearing this morning, the Electrical Trades Union has raised concerns about home insulation installers inspecting their own work under the new Government scheme. For more, the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Action, Senator Simon Birmingham, joins us now from Canberra. Senator Birmingham, good morning. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good morning,…
JOHN BARRON: A Senate probe continues into the Rudd Government’s home insulation scheme despite its scrapping last week following the deaths of those four installers and more than 90 house fires associated with the program. The Senate committee has this morning heard a strong defence of the scheme from senior Environment Department officials who…