TONY ABBOTT: It’s good to be here at OneSteel here in Whyalla with Simon Birmingham, the Senator for South Australia. This is a very important industrial plant for Whyalla, for South Australia and for our whole country. It’s along with the BlueScope plant at Port Kembla the largest steel making facility in Australia…
DetailsLUKE GRANT: Simon Birmingham is a Senator from South Australia. He’s also the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment and he joins me on the line. Evening, Senator. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good evening, Luke. Good evening, listeners. LUKE GRANT: Appreciate your time very much indeed. A lot coming out of this today but clearly the wastage is one issue…
DetailsVANESSA TREZISE: After more than 100,000 home inspections, the Government has revealed the threat posed by dodgy installations under its trouble plagued ‘Pink Batts’ scheme isn’t as bad as many feared. For more, we’re joined by Sky News chief political reporter David Speers and, David, is that a fair assessment? DAVID SPEERS: Well, it’s the…
DetailsSANDY ALOISI: Well, joining us now for an Opposition viewpoint is the Acting Climate Action [Shadow] Minister, Simon Birmingham, who joins us now. Senator Birmingham, good afternoon to you. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good afternoon, Sandy. Good afternoon to your listeners. SANDY ALOISI: And what concerns, if any, do you have about this report? …
DetailsNAOMI WOODLEY: … the Opposition’s spokesman, Simon Birmingham, says that [the conclusion of inspections] will leave many homeowners with unanswered questions. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: We’re talking about one million homes that will be uninspected at the end of this process. We know from the 150,000 that will have been inspected that basically one in four…
DetailsLYNDAL CURTIS: Simon Birmingham, welcome to News 24. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Thanks, Lyndal. LYNDAL CURTIS: The Government’s said it’s done all that it said it would do and now’s the time to look at winding up the program. Should it be doing that now? SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Well, in winding up the program now…
DetailsHOWARD SATTLER: … a proposed carbon tax. The Government is digging its heels in. The Gillard Government just won’t see the light on this one and doesn’t recognise that just about everybody bar it is against this carbon tax sorry, bar it and the Greens but the unions are against it, the employers are…
DetailsLEON BYNER: Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham has visited us in the studio. Simon, tell us what you want the people of South Australia to know. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Well Leon, listeners, it’s great to be here and obviously Tony Abbott has highlighted a lot of the key issues around the carbon tax but today we’ve seen…
DetailsTOM TILLEY: Simon Birmingham is the acting Opposition spokesman on Climate Change and I spoke to him about today’s story, the mounting opposition to Labor’s carbon tax, just a moment ago. Simon, we’re seeing a growing number of voices joining the chorus of complaint about the Government’s carbon tax. Is the Opposition just another…
DetailsSIMON BIRMINGHAM: I want to touch on two matters today firstly, the matter of Wayne Hanson’s comments from the AWU and, secondly, the meeting today of the Multi-Party Committee on Climate Change in Canberra. Firstly, in relation to the AWU… We have a union leader, another union leader, bell the cat on the…
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