The Coalition’s Murray-Darling Basin spokesman, Simon Birmingham, is urging South Australians to make their voices heard on the draft Basin Plan. A public meeting in Renmark this afternoon is the last such meeting scheduled in South Australia by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority before formal consultation ends next month on the proposed Basin Plan…
DetailsAustralians deserve to know what the Prime Minister thinks about South Australia’s threatened High Court action over the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, Coalition Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham said today. Visiting Adelaide, Julia Gillard has today offered only platitudes about understanding South Australia’s frustration at being at the end of the river system and being…
DetailsSouth Australians should welcome the conclusion of a new TV deal that will keep local football on our TV screens, and back the broadcasts by tuning in. Today’s agreement on a new deal between the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and South Australian National Football League (SANFL) is great news for our local game…
DetailsA requested $150 hike in electricity prices is only the first such hit, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham warned today. South Australia’s largest energy retailer, AGL South Australia Pty Ltd, has written to the Essential Services Commission to seek approval for price rises directly resulting from Julia Gillard’s carbon…
DetailsTaxpayers are still millions of dollars out of pocket from dodgy activities under Labor’s disastrous $2.5 billion Home Insulation Program, linked to at least four deaths and more than 200 house fires. The extent of outstanding payments still being sought was detailed by Climate Change departmental officials in a Senate Estimates hearing under…
DetailsHundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars are going to promote the carbon tax to toddlers and union officials as part of Labor’s multi-million dollar carbon tax campaign, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. Under questioning from Senator Birmingham in Senate Estimates, the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency…
DetailsMore than $1 million of taxpayers’ money has been wasted on providing the Gillard Government with public feedback about its unpopular carbon tax, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. Climate Change departmental officials revealed, in a Senate Estimates hearing today, that $1.03 million has so far been paid to…
DetailsMore than $17 million has already been spent on setting up the agency that will enforce Julia Gillard’s carbon tax, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. The costs of setting up and ‘branding’ the new Clean Energy Regulator to be established from 2 April have been revealed…
DetailsThe Senate has today paid tribute to the late Senator Jeannie Ferris and urged all Australians to support this month’s Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. A motion* from South Australian Coalition Senators and the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Status of Women, passed unanimously by the Senate this afternoon, highlights Ms Ferris’s work in…
DetailsFormer federal Water Minister Penny Wong’s warning today to South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill over Murray-Darling Basin reform has been welcomed by the Coalition’s Basin spokesman, Simon Birmingham. Asked about Mr Weatherill’s threats of a High Court challenge to a final Basin Plan, Senator Wong delivered a clear warning to Mr Weatherill and…
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