LEON BYNER: Now, the River Murray is an important issue for us. Thank goodness nature is giving us a few gifts at the moment. There’s even the possibility of flooding but the State Government has turned down the chance for senior staff to be involved in drafting the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. Now, the chairman…
DetailsSIMON BIRMINGHAM: Labor appears to be deaf to the cost-of-living pressures that Australians are facing at present. They appear to be blind to the mounting evidence around the carbon tax the world’s biggest carbon tax and the reality that it will leave Australia with the world’s largest electricity bills. This ‘hear no…
DetailsLEON BYNER: Now, we find that South Australia has the highest power prices in the world or soon will have. Now, there are a number of reasons for this. One, we sold off the industry to retire the debt from Bannon’s State Bank debacle, governments invented a complicated economic model of a grid supposed…
DetailsSIMON BIRMINGHAM: It’s time for this Labor Government to wake up and look at electricity prices. Evidence released today by the Energy Users Association of Australia demonstrates that Australia has some of the highest electricity prices in the world and that, when Labor’s carbon tax is applied, Australians will be paying the highest electricity…
DetailsSIMON BIRMINGHAM: It’s time for the Government to come clean about that fact that it’s got the Treasury modelling around its carbon tax so terribly, terribly wrong. They modelled on the basis that the world carbon price would be somewhere between $29 and $61. The reality is that the European ETS is currently trading…
DetailsLEON BYNER: Riverland locals have the chance to attend a public meeting today about the draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan and the meeting’s going to be at the Greek Orthodox Community Hall [in Renmark] and, again, you may not know where that is and you might think ‘Leon, why are we talking about this?’ Well,…
DetailsLEON BYNER: We have had a lot of flooding going on that’s been reported. I’ve been watching some of the extended news services just to see the length and breadth of flooding. Where I used to work years ago in Shepparton… not long away, Numurkah is virtually a town that’s accessible only by boat.…
DetailsLEON BYNER: Now, do you remember a couple of years ago I deciphered… I went to a lawyer because the language was just so unbelievable that it was very hard to kind of decipher, so I went to a Senior Counsel, spent a bit of time with him and he deciphered the Copenhagen treaty…
DetailsKIERAN GILBERT: With me now on the program, Labor MP Andrew Leigh and Liberal frontbencher Simon Birmingham. Gentlemen, good morning to both of you. ANDREW LEIGH: Morning, Kieran. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Morning, Kieran. KIERAN GILBERT: Andrew, I’ll start where I started with the Minister [Chris Evans, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills Science…
DetailsKEITH 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…
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