VANESSA TREZISE: After more than 100,000 home inspections, the Government has revealed the threat posed by dodgy installations under its trouble plagued ‘Pink Batts’ scheme isn’t as bad as many feared. For more, we’re joined by Sky News chief political reporter David Speers and, David, is that a fair assessment? DAVID SPEERS: Well, it’s the…
DetailsLUKE GRANT: Simon Birmingham is a Senator from South Australia. He’s also the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment and he joins me on the line. Evening, Senator. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good evening, Luke. Good evening, listeners. LUKE GRANT: Appreciate your time very much indeed. A lot coming out of this today but clearly the wastage is one issue…
DetailsTONY ABBOTT: It’s good to be here at OneSteel here in Whyalla with Simon Birmingham, the Senator for South Australia. This is a very important industrial plant for Whyalla, for South Australia and for our whole country. It’s along with the BlueScope plant at Port Kembla the largest steel making facility in Australia…
DetailsLabor’s carbon tax chaos has continued with delays announced to tax incentives for energy efficiency measures that would have helped to reduce the impact of the carbon tax on many businesses. The Tax Breaks for Green Buildings program has become another of Labor’s election promises to be broken in some way. By delaying…
DetailsLabor’s reported commitment to yesterday’s meeting of the carbon tax Industry Transitional Assistance Working Group that the 2009 Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) assistance package is “now back on the table” means petrol is on the way up or other promises are set to be broken. Labor has now: · stated the carbon…
DetailsLabor’s home insulation scheme leaves a sorry tale of destruction and a million homeowners still in the dark. Four installers working on the program died, around 200 house fires are known to have occurred, many businesses have been destroyed, significant numbers of jobs lost and approaching $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds have been…
DetailsTOM TILLEY: Simon Birmingham is the acting Opposition spokesman on Climate Change and I spoke to him about today’s story, the mounting opposition to Labor’s carbon tax, just a moment ago. Simon, we’re seeing a growing number of voices joining the chorus of complaint about the Government’s carbon tax. Is the Opposition just another…
DetailsLEON BYNER: Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham has visited us in the studio. Simon, tell us what you want the people of South Australia to know. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Well Leon, listeners, it’s great to be here and obviously Tony Abbott has highlighted a lot of the key issues around the carbon tax but today we’ve seen…
DetailsHOWARD SATTLER: … a proposed carbon tax. The Government is digging its heels in. The Gillard Government just won’t see the light on this one and doesn’t recognise that just about everybody bar it is against this carbon tax sorry, bar it and the Greens but the unions are against it, the employers are…
DetailsPrices of everyday household goods will go up and keep going up under Labor’s carbon tax, according to the Acting Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Simon Birmingham. “Australia’s food and grocery manufacturers are right to highlight the impact the carbon tax would have on the prices of everyday goods,” Senator Birmingham said today.…
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