KEITH CONLON: The Prime Minister’s in town, she’ll be in the northern suburbs today, so will the Premier Jay Weatherill. In the ‘Tiser today you’ll see the Premier is very impassioned about the Murray, of course he is, he wants to talk to the Prime Minister about it. Senator Simon Birmingham … he definitely…
DetailsLEON BYNER: Now, AGL is to apply [AGL South Australia Pty Ltd has applied] to the regulator for an increase in power prices of $150 annually. They blame the carbon tax. It’s worth remembering that Greg Combet promised a 9 per cent increase on electricity prices, with compensation based on that Treasury modelling, not on…
DetailsPETER VAN ONSELEN: You get media releases all the time from politicians. Sometimes they’re interesting; 99.9 per cent of the time they are not. An example of one that’s not, from the Greens, that came in yesterday: they welcome Rio’s attempt to protect the new crab. God, who cares? Let’s be honest. I mean,…
DetailsPAUL MURRAY: Well, you just heard John O’Donnell, the branch president of the communication workers union in WA [Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union], saying that this labour hire system to get the NBN [National Broadband Network] built in WA… he thinks that the rates are so low that it’s going to end up as…
DetailsSIMON BIRMINGHAM: Yesterday in Senate Estimates it was revealed that this Labor Government has spent more than a million dollars of taxpayers’ money on focus groups, on polling and market research into their carbon tax; that they’re giving around $100,000 to the ACTU [Australian Council of Trade Unions] to help union officials sell the carbon tax;…
DetailsNINA MAY: The Prime Minister has criticised Opposition tactics blaming the carbon tax for potential job losses in the aluminium sector. LEIGH HATCHER: Alcoa has announced it’s reviewing the viability of its Victorian smelter, putting hundreds of jobs at risk. We’re live to Canberra now Sky News chief political reporter Kieran Gilbert.…
DetailsTOM TILLEY: Now, first to Canberra and you’ve probably been back at work for quite a few weeks already since your Christmas break but for our politicians today is their first day back in Federal Parliament and our reporter John Barrington has been walking and stalking the halls of power, finding out which issues…
DetailsSTEVE CANNANE: Our panel tonight: Miriam Lyons from the Centre for Policy Development, Marius Benson from ABC NewsRadio, and economist and contributing editor to The Australian newspaper Judith Sloan. … STEVE CANNANE: Well, the future of Australia’s car industry has become the latest battleground for Labor and the Coalition. The Opposition has…
DetailsELEANOR HALL: Let’s go now to the debate inside the federal Coalition about whether it should maintain the hefty Government subsidies to the car industry in Australia. The Federal Government says that every country that makes cars props up its local industry, and it’s accusing the Opposition of putting auto industry jobs at…
DetailsDAVID LIPSON: … first, to political matters much closer to home, I want to go straight to our political panel today. The Shadow Parliamentary Secretary, Simon Birmingham, joins us from Adelaide and, here in Canberra, Labor MP Andrew Leigh. Good morning to both of you gentlemen and happy new year. ANDREW LEIGH: Morning,…
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