GARY HARDGRAVE: If you went to Nambour High, you probably almost want to disown the school. I went to MacGregor High and I never want to disown that school but it just beats me. Nambour High produced both Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan and both of them have made great virtues out of that. No offence to…
DetailsALEXANDRA KIRK: As Tony Abbott takes his anti-carbon tax crusade to Western Australia for the next couple of days, the Opposition’s got hold of Labor’s draft plans for a $30 million taxpayer-funded advertising blitz slated for January last year. It’s centred on Kevin Rudd’s emissions trading scheme but was dumped as was his…
DetailsLYNDAL CURTIS: Simon Birmingham and Nick Champion, welcome to News 24. NICK CHAMPION: Good morning [sic]. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good afternoon, Lyndal. G’day, Nick. LYNDAL CURTIS: The Government has not ruled out advertising to sell its carbon tax plan. That’s not something that has won the backing of either Tony Windsor or the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott,…
DetailsLEON BYNER: We’re talking today about this proposed carbon tax, its impact on South Australia … let’s talk to Simon Birmingham, Senator in South Australia for the Opposition. Good morning. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good morning, Leon, and good morning to your listeners. Leon, you and Haydon Manning [Department of Politics and Public Policy, Flinders University] this morning…
DetailsHAYDEN COOPER: Gentlemen, thanks for joining us. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: A pleasure, Hayden. DAVID BRADBURY: Afternoon. HAYDEN COOPER: Well timing is everything and Scott Morrison has admitted that he got it wrong. You’ll remember that yesterday he raised questions about the cost to taxpayers of flying relatives to Sydney for the funerals of some of the Christmas…
DetailsLEON BYNER: … set top box, you’ve got all these extra channels like 7TWO/mate, GEM, GO!, ELEVEN. A lot of these shows [digital channels] have got repeats which sometimes rate better than the free-to-air ‘one’ service [primary channel]. The problem for those people outside Adelaide is that analogue television’s basically gone. That is, the traditional 2 [ABC],…
DetailsJOSEPH THOMSEN: … the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray-Darling Basin, Simon Birmingham, who is in Albury for today only. Simon Birmingham, good morning. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good morning, Joseph and listeners. It’s a pleasure to be with you. JOSEPH THOMSEN: Now, you’re going to be focusing today on what exactly? SIMON BIRMINGHAM: I will be…
DetailsMIKE SMITHSON: Now, as we heard last week, Tony Abbott’s Coalition has formed a task force to build more dams around Australia to capture stormwater and floodwater given the enormity of the flood in the eastern states, it seems like a pretty sound idea but the Federal Government has already started throwing mud at…
DetailsLAINIE ANDERSON: … Simon Birmingham … what do you think or what do you make of the idea that former South Australian Water Minister Karlene Maywald could head the Murray-Darling Basin Authority or is one of many being touted as a possible head? SIMON BIRMINGHAM: … Karlene’s obviously an ably intelligent woman, she…
DetailsELIZABETH JACKSON: With many communities still dealing with the damage from widespread flooding, the Federal Opposition has accused the Government of failing to reveal warnings that its plan to put more water back into the Murray-Darling river system could increase the risk of flooding. A document the Coalition has obtained under Freedom of…
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