South Australians should welcome the conclusion of a new TV deal that will keep local football on our TV screens, and back the broadcasts by tuning in. Today’s agreement on a new deal between the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and South Australian National Football League (SANFL) is great news for our local game…
A requested $150 hike in electricity prices is only the first such hit, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham warned today. South Australia’s largest energy retailer, AGL South Australia Pty Ltd, has written to the Essential Services Commission to seek approval for price rises directly resulting from Julia Gillard’s carbon…
Taxpayers are still millions of dollars out of pocket from dodgy activities under Labor’s disastrous $2.5 billion Home Insulation Program, linked to at least four deaths and more than 200 house fires. The extent of outstanding payments still being sought was detailed by Climate Change departmental officials in a Senate Estimates hearing under…
Hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars are going to promote the carbon tax to toddlers and union officials as part of Labor’s multi-million dollar carbon tax campaign, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. Under questioning from Senator Birmingham in Senate Estimates, the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency…
More than $1 million of taxpayers’ money has been wasted on providing the Gillard Government with public feedback about its unpopular carbon tax, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. Climate Change departmental officials revealed, in a Senate Estimates hearing today, that $1.03 million has so far been paid to…
More than $17 million has already been spent on setting up the agency that will enforce Julia Gillard’s carbon tax, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. The costs of setting up and ‘branding’ the new Clean Energy Regulator to be established from 2 April have been revealed…
Former federal Water Minister Penny Wong’s warning today to South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill over Murray-Darling Basin reform has been welcomed by the Coalition’s Basin spokesman, Simon Birmingham. Asked about Mr Weatherill’s threats of a High Court challenge to a final Basin Plan, Senator Wong delivered a clear warning to Mr Weatherill and…
Jay Weatherill’s fascination of where the federal Coalition stands on the proposed Murray-Darling Basin Plan ignores one simple and salient fact Labor occupies the Federal Government benches, not the Coalition. Julia Gillard is the Prime Minister. Tony Burke is the Water Minister. South Australian Labor MPs Penny Wong and Mark Butler sit in the…
The Senate has today paid tribute to the late Senator Jeannie Ferris and urged all Australians to support this month’s Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. A motion* from South Australian Coalition Senators and the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Status of Women, passed unanimously by the Senate this afternoon, highlights Ms Ferris’s work in…
Divisions within South Australian Labor on Murray-Darling Basin reform are now spreading into federal Labor, putting at risk the entire reform process, Coalition Murray-Darling Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham said today. “Premier Weatherill’s threats to challenge the Basin Plan in the High Court have been rejected by most SA federal Labor MPs, who have…