DAVID LIPSON: It’s finals week this week but today’s titans’ clash is happening off the football pitch. The battle over Andrew Wilkie’s pokie reforms has intensified after several AFL [Australian Football League] club presidents slammed the mandatory pre-commitment technology. … ANTHONY BALL, Clubs Australia Executive Director: Millions of supporters, millions of players, kids and families…
DetailsGRANT GOLDMAN: Now, Australians concerned about Julia Gillard’s carbon tax must speak now or forever hold their peace [almost]. That’s what Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham has said today. We have him on the line. Morning, Simon. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good morning, Grant. Good morning to your listeners. GRANT GOLDMAN: Yes, and I think you’ve picked up…
DetailsGREG HUNT: At six minutes to this morning’s committee hearing, the Treasurer finally released the updated Treasury modelling. What we know from today is this the ‘world’s best Treasurer’ has the world’s worst modelling. This carbon tax modelling is worthless because it is based on a fantasy. It’s based on a fantasy, still, that the United…
DetailsHOWARD SATTLER: And if you think the Government wouldn’t manipulate the support or otherwise for this [carbon] tax, this series of tax bills there’s 18 of them, by the way listen to this. They total 1,100 pages of legislation. Guess how long you’ve got to respond to make submissions you, if you’re an organisation…
DetailsGARY HARDGRAVE: Simon Birmingham is a Liberal Senator from South Australia and he says only three days left if you want to lodge something on the and I’m going to use the word again carbon tax submission. I hate using the so called ‘C-bomb’. Simon Birmingham joins me. Only three days left what can…
DetailsSIMON BIRMINGHAM: What we have today is new data from the [Australian] Trade and Industry Alliance that demonstrates that nine out of ten Australian jobs in manufacturing are in industries that will receive no compensation under the carbon tax. Every Australian job in the services sector is in an industry, in a business that will receive…
DetailsBARNABY JOYCE: The purpose of this is that I think we have had enough of this ridiculous process where we are relying on information from the ‘South Tumut Advocate‘ to determine where the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is going. We seem to have this continual leak of information into certain regional newspapers, and God bless them…
DetailsSIMON BIRMINGHAM: Julia Gillard has said she wants Australia to be on the right side of history in the climate change debate. Well, if you look at what those participants in the global carbon market say and have told the World Bank, 90 per cent of them or thereabouts are pessimistic about the likelihood of…
DetailsSIMON BIRMINGHAM: Compare and contrast Labor’s approach to the carbon tax legislation with what the Howard Government did with the GST [Goods and Services Tax]. Firstly, the big difference John Howard took the GST to an election; Julia Gillard has run scared from having the people decide the fate of her carbon tax campaign.…
DetailsSIMON BIRMINGHAM: Labor has at every opportunity taken the chance to raise the hype and expectation surrounding its NBN in South Australia, especially at last year’s federal election where it was a cornerstone of their campaign. What we see now, though, are delays, cost blowouts and uncertainty. While the Coalition believes there is a better way,…
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