KIERAN GILBERT: … and in Adelaide we have the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Climate [Action], Senator Simon Birmingham. Senator Birmingham, thank you for joining us this morning. I want to ask you first of all, has Tony Abbott once again being caught up in this WorkChoices discussion where he wants the debate elsewhere… the…
DetailsALEXANDRA KIRK: Coalition senators who formed a majority on the Senate inquiry want a royal commission into the home insulation program. They say the scheme was open to an unacceptable level of fraud and abuse and the Government had “clear and unambiguous warnings” that rolling out such a big program so quickly would be…
DetailsSONYA FELDHOFF: We’ve been waiting for these particular reports on the Green Loans scheme and I don’t think anyone expected that it would continue but now we have a definite time frame for the phasing out of this program, Simon. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: We have been waiting for these reports for some months. I’ve…
DetailsMIKE SMITHSON: Remember if you’ve got Isobel’s revenge don’t hesitate to give us a call after midday for a prize. She was stood up on a date with an unnamed Government Minister on Saturday night. She attended a performance of the [Adelaide] Cabaret [Festival] Natalie Cole. I actually saw her there and she…
DetailsLEON BYNER: More than 200 billion litres of precious floodwaters is evaporating upstream in the Menindee Lakes while dying Riverland towns and desperate irrigators battle for water entitlements. Now, the ordinary person … says, how can we do this? Let’s put some sense to this… … LEON BYNER: Now Simon Birmingham, you’re…
Details… KIERAN GILBERT: … today Andrew Forrest is going to be outside the WA Press Club putting the boot in to Kevin Rudd… Simon Birmingham, if the Government is able to secure a compromise with the likes of Andrew Forrest and some mining giants over there, does that not leave the Coalition extremely…
Details… CELINA EDMONDS: Senator Birmingham, you have to admit that we are going to hear that line, ‘phoney Tony’ a lot now? It does seem that ‘straight shooting Tony Abbott’ may have shot himself in the foot on this one. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Celina, Tony’s only sin last night was to give a direct…
DetailsLEON BYNER: … do you remember yesterday we spoke to [South Australian Attorney-General] John Rau and John said look we’re going to deliver quickly on two promises we made and that’s a credit to the Government, first one … you remember during the election campaign [then South Australian Attorney-General] Michael Atkinson wanted bloggers on the…
DetailsPETER MARES: While Special Minister of State Senator Joe Ludwig hasn’t yet had time to take a serious look at the questionable use of how-to-vote cards in the South Australian election, other politicians at state and federal level have vowed to push for reform. Labor’s deployment of blue T-shirted Family First look-alikes at polling booths in…
DetailsASLEIGH GILLON: Joining me here in our Canberra studio this morning is the Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham … Bill Shorten will be with us soon from Melbourne. Simon, before we start talking about reshuffles let’s just take a moment to recognise Nick Minchin’s contribution … of course he was in the Senate for some…
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