TONY EASTLEY: While last night’s Community Cabinet meeting might have given him a break of sorts, Environment Minister Peter Garrett can expect no let up from the Federal Opposition. A Senate inquiry into the insulation scheme has decided to call Department of Environment officials to appear before it on Monday. They’ll be quizzed about…
Details(Leon Byner: Simon, yesterday your boss announced a remedy to reduce CO2 emissions but it’s received a degree of criticism. In a nutshell, what does Mr Abbott’s and your Opposition policy do?) Good morning, Leon and listeners. Yesterday, Tony Abbott released what is a very clear alternative to the Government’s emissions trading scheme and the alternative is…
Details(Sonya Feldhoff: Good afternoon, Senator.) Good afternoon, Sonya and listeners, a pleasure to be with you. (Feldhoff: This policy, how does it differ from the climate change policy we’ve seen from the Government in the past?) Sonya, this is a markedly different approach that the Coalition is taking to climate change in Australia and it’s an…
DetailsGood morning Tony, good morning Keith, listeners. Look, Minister Wong is being particularly misleading when it comes to Tony Abbott’s plan for a referendum, quite misleading. Nobody wants to wait until 2013, nobody hopes that we have to leave it ’til then to resolve once and for all management issues in the Basin but…
Details(Leigh Hatcher: Joining us now from Adelaide is the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Murray Darling Basin, Simon Birmingham. Simon Birmingham, thanks for your time this morning. Hasn’t this idea been trialled in the past and failed?) Well no, not at all, Leigh. What Tony [Abbott] has outlined is a clear plan of action to tackle some…
Details(Spence Denny: It’s fair to say that the relationship between South Australia and New South Wales is strained at the moment … it’s all to do with water … with the significant flood in New South Wales falling into the Murray Darling Basin area and making its way south but just how much of…
Details(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