(Joe O’Brien: Opposition Murray Darling Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham says hundreds of billions of litres of water flowing from the Darling River into the Menindee Lakes in New South Wales will be wasted because of delays in processing long overdue infrastructure works. For more, Mr Birmingham joins us now from Adelaide. Simon Birmingham, good…
Details(Mike Smithson: Simon, will the Premier’s letter to Kevin Rudd have any impact? Will it make a splash?) Good morning Mike and listeners. It’s very disappointing that the Premier finds himself so weak and hopeless in this debate that he has to now resort simply to firing off the occasional letter. The problems we’re…
Details…we were a tad disorganised and didn’t have candles that we brought along with us, so there were electric light candles on sale at the venue which was fine. But either side of us there were a few groups of people who had candles with them… the types of candles that you light with a…
Details(David Speers: Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham… he is one who has been supporting Malcolm Turnbull but was not in the Senate chamber for this afternoon’s, well, no vote… there was no eventual vote as it turns out in the Senate. Simon Birmingham, why were you absent from the chamber first of all?) David, good afternoon. I…
Details(Virginia Trioli: Good morning … It’s good and important to clarify, I guess, lines of allegiance this morning… it’s fair to say that you’re a supporter of Malcolm Turnbull?) Virginia, I’ve been very clear throughout this debate that I am a supporter of Malcolm Turnbull and I’m a supporter of action on climate change,…
Details(Matthew Abraham: Good morning … Is Malcolm Turnbull dead in the water?) Absolutely not, Malcolm Turnbull has had a very good win, a win in terms of taking the Liberal Party forward into the future, as a party that stands for action on climate change and as a party that has negotiated an outcome on…
Details(Byner: Simon Birmingham … what do you make of this? …) … I’ve been approached by numerous irrigators, water brokers and others … there are numerous problems, many of which you’ve already highlighted here … firstly for those irrigators, those farming families in South Australia’s Riverland who have been treated so unfairly, this is…
Details(Byner: One issue that’s been talked about a lot in this community is healthcare, the possibility of building a new hospital … I’ve always taken the view that it’s not just about one hospital … it’s about the whole system which is very much overcrowded, there’s no question about that and the health outcomes…
Details(Presenter: Well my next guest thinks the Rudd Government has a pretty loose definition of urgent because 18 months ago, Anthony Albanese was then Opposition water spokesperson, promised to give urgent attention to a proposal for a water recycling project in Port Pirie. Well now he’s in Government and nothing has happened. Now that…
Details(Abraham: Liberal Senator, Simon Birmingham has called … good morning … you now want the Water Security Minister or the Government to do something about the Victorian pipeline? …) I welcome any progress towards a free and fair market trading system, but we also have this mad situation where Victoria continues building this pipeline…
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