Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Student Services and Amenities) Bill 2010

Simon BIRMINGHAM: (South Australia) (12:56): The Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Student Services and Amenities) Bill 2010 does feel a little like a back-to-the-future scenario. We debated a very similar bill in the previous parliament and the parliament before that debated the matter of voluntary student unionism and an end to the compulsion of student union…

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Joyce-Birmingham – Coalition petition calls on Murray-Darling Basin Authority to hold public meetings

  Senators Barnaby Joyce and Simon Birmingham have today released a petition* asking people to call on the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) to hold public meetings after the release of the draft Basin Plan and for the Water Minister, Tony Burke, to attend those meetings.   Yesterday, it was revealed to the Senate that the…

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6PR – Julia Gillard’s carbon tax, taxpayer funded advertising, abuse of taxpayer dollars

  PAUL MURRAY: … in the Senate Estimates committee. Under the spotlight at that stage was the amount of money that the Federal Government has been spending advertising its carbon tax package. Senator Simon Birmingham was in those Senate Estimates yesterday. What we found out was that the Government has actually blown the budget on…

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News Hour, FIVEaa – National Broadband Network, Labor waste, Labor debt and deficit, Julia Gillard’s carbon tax, taxpayer funded advertising

  ANDREW REIMER: You heard just a moment ago, on the News Hour, that construction work is about to begin on the infrastructure for the next stage of the rollout of the high speed National Broadband Network. The company undertaking the work for the Federal Government, NBN Co, released a 12-month plan today listing the…

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