MATTHEW ABRAHAM: Simon Birmingham is a Liberal Senator. Simon Birmingham, good morning… ah, good afternoon, Simon. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Habits die hard, Matthew. Good afternoon to you two and the listeners. MATTHEW ABRAHAM: Senator Simon Birmingham, what’s your… do you feel shattered? SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Look, it’s obviously disappointing and… to come so close, to win 600,000 more primary…
DAVID SPEERS: … let’s go from the Labor camp to the Liberal camp in Adelaide and Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham. Simon, we are seeing big swings in some seats but not in all and indeed in a couple of very marginal Labor seats… Light, we were looking at just earlier, it looks like a swing…
DAVID SPEERS: Let’s go to Adelaide and the Liberal camp there, the Isobel Redmond camp tonight, and Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham joins us now. Senator, thanks for your time. What are you hearing so far there tonight? We haven’t seen any real results through but the exit polls are somewhat encouraging for the Liberals? SIMON…
ALI MOORE: The Opposition’s Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin is Senator Simon Birmingham. He joins myself and Political Editor Chris Uhlmann from the ABC’s Adelaide bureau. Simon Birmingham, welcome to the program. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Thanks Ali… good afternoon… good afternoon Chris. ALI MOORE: You’ve committed to implementing the Murray-Darling Basin Authority Plan,…
SONYA FELDHOFF: …Senator Simon Birmingham … today has been talking about a promise by the Coalition to put in $4 million towards an Adelaide City Council project regarding stormwater at Victoria Park … thanks for your time … why was this project singled out as being something that was worthwhile? SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Well…
LEON BYNER: A multi billion dollar submarine project designed to provide thousands of jobs is at risk if the Coalition is elected. That was suggested by the Premier Mike Rann today. Now, I notice that the Opposition Defence Spokesman, David Johnston, was reported in Perth saying that it might not be feasible to build…
MATTHEW ABRAHAM: … Simon Birmingham … is in transit at the moment but we recorded this interview earlier this morning … and we’re picking up on a story in The Sydney Morning Herald this morning. DAVID BEVAN: What this article is saying is that almost one-third of the 900 billion litres of water…
LEON BYNER: It’s been revealed that the amount of water Minister Wong already purchased using taxpayer funds is grossly exaggerated. An audit by the Department of Environment and Heritage [federal Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts] shows that 40 per cent of what water was purchased will actually reach the river…
KEITH CONLON: The River Murray, we’ve had a Gillard plan for the Murray … an accepting of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority’s Plan … then we had Tony Abbott at the Murray Mouth yesterday … major announcements. The Greens have come out and said, well nice try but look, it’s not good enough. Simon Birmingham,…
SONYA FELDHOFF: Yesterday we focused very much on the release of the ALP’s policy on the River Murray. Today the Coalition made their announcement, Tony Abbott flanked by his other South Australian Parliamentarians, Liberal Parliamentarians, was on Hindmarsh Island to release their policy of providing $750 million towards the River Murray. Senator Simon Birmingham is…