TONY PILKINGTON: The Prime Minister expected to make an announcement today whereby a major commitment of buying back all of the water required to save our River Murray … Simon Birmingham … KEITH CONLON: …you rang and obviously you know the Prime Minister’s coming in? SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Look, certainly do … very…
DAVID BEVAN: Simon Birmingham is a Liberal Senator for South Australia and he’s been involved in the campaign, obviously, but not just to try and get… well I’m not too sure he was standing but he was acting as something of a campaign manager for the Liberals, I think the candidate for Hindmarsh… …
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,…
MATTHEW ABRAHAM: A very interesting story raised by Leanne from Kilburn; I think let’s let Leanne tell her story, but it’s about getting your hopes up and then having them dashed after getting a leaflet from Kate Ellis [plays back audio from previous day] CALLER, LEANNE:I was flicking through the election junk…
LEON BYNER: The Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin is Simon Birmingham. Simon, where do you think South Australia stands in this horse trade that’s going on at the moment? SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Well good morning, Leon and listeners, and look, I’m pleased to hear Quentin [Grafton, Director, Centre for Water Economics,…
… KIERAN GILBERT: Senator Birmingham, I want to bring you into the discussion now, as you heard there from Bill Shorten, the message from Labor will be that this is a show of solidarity, that it’s all shoulders to the wheel and that Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard share values in terms of the…