SENATOR BIRMINGHAM: (South Australia) (17:13): I seek leave to move a motion in relation to the response by the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities regarding the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. Leave granted. SENATOR BIRMINGHAM: I move: That the Senate take note of the document. This is a brief response from the minister to…
DetailsKIERAN GILBERT: This afternoon our focus is on the battle over the power bill the Federal Government and the Opposition, the Commonwealth and the states each blaming each other for soaring electricity prices but is it all too late for Prime Minister Gillard to reframe this debate and why didn’t she take on…
DetailsWater Minister Tony Burke should provide certainty to all Murray-Darling stakeholders by indicating quickly whether he is happy with the latest iteration of the Proposed Basin Plan released by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority today. With just three weeks left for the States to provide further comment on the plan, Coalition Murray-Darling Basin spokesman…
DetailsJULIE DOYLE: Hello and welcome to Capital Hill. I’m Julie Doyle. Ford’s decision to cut hundreds of jobs in Victoria has put debate about Government handouts to the car industry at the front and centre again. Today we’ll discuss car subsidies and are they worth the cost? Joining me, in Melbourne, we have Labor…
DetailsKIERAN GILBERT: Joining us now, Labor frontbencher Mike Kelly here in the Canberra studio; in Adelaide, Liberal frontbencher Senator Simon Birmingham. Good to see you both, gentlemen. Mike, first to you… the asylum seeker panel today Angus Houston meeting with various representatives of the political parties… … KIERAN GILBERT: Senator Birmingham, there…
DetailsMinisterial briefings prepared for the South Australian Labor Government have confirmed that Federal Labor’s carbon tax risks investment, jobs and population in Port Pirie. The briefings, released to the State Liberal Opposition under freedom of information laws, confirm the future of Nyrstar’s lead smelter at Port Pirie has been placed at direct risk…
DetailsDAVID LIPSON: First, to more disturbing claims of sexual abuse within Defence. The full report from law firm DLA Piper has now been released and, among other things, outlines 24 cases of rape in the late ’90s alone and none of them are believed to have gone to trial. Also, claims that sections of…
DetailsCHRIS KENNY: I want to go to this other issue that was spruiked about by the Government on Sunday and Monday and that, of course, was the future of Whyalla Whyalla, the town that Tony Abbott and a prominent union leader said would be wiped off the map by the carbon tax. Now,…
DetailsPETER VAN ONSELEN: I’m joined here in the Sky News studio by Labor’s Bruce Hawker… can we still call you Labor’s Bruce Hawker after you were backing Kevin Rudd and not the Prime Minister? BRUCE HAWKER: A bit of a Labor outsider in some parts of Canberra but, yeah, still loyal. PETER…
DetailsJulia Gillard is trying to deceive Australians about the real impact for them of her carbon tax, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. On Adelaide radio today, the Prime Minister deliberately avoided the most severe cost impacts of the carbon tax which took effect yesterday: “People can, you…
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