The Greens should come clean on all details they know about the Government’s carbon tax package but which are yet to be released or announced, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. It follows what appears to be today’s latest example of Greens Deputy Leader Christine Milne jumping the gun…
DetailsToday marks one year since the release of Labor’s widely criticised Guide to the proposed Basin Plan, yet anxious Murray-Darling Basin communities continue waiting for release of the actual plan, Coalition Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham said today. The Murray-Darling Basin Authority’s Guide was released a year ago today, and provoked angst throughout the…
DetailsThe Coalition has given voice to thousands of Australians the Government tried to silence on the carbon tax debate, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. Senator Birmingham is one of five Coalition Members and Senators on a carbon tax legislation inquiry committee dominated by nine Labor and Greens…
DetailsAustralia’s union movement is backing the Government’s carbon tax even though it expects it to reduce both real wages and economic production, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. Joel Fetter, Policy Director at peak body the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), today told the shotgun Parliamentary inquiry into…
DetailsAustralians concerned about Julia Gillard’s carbon tax must ‘speak now or forever hold their peace’, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. It follows the Government-imposed deadline of today for the receipt of submissions to its shotgun inquiry into its carbon tax legislation. “In allowing just six days to…
DetailsI welcome today’s announcement by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that it will start negotiations to continue televising South Australian National Football League (SANFL) football and other local sport beyond the current season. This announcement is a pleasing response to last week’s resolution by the Senate, which I was pleased to sponsor with…
DetailsUpdated Treasury modelling on the Carbon Tax is worthless. The revised modelling, released only minutes before today’s Join Select Committee on the Carbon Tax legislation continues to rely upon the assumption that the United States will be part of a global trading system by 2016. Yet the chance of the United States…
DetailsThe Gillard Government’s refusal to release updated modelling on its carbon tax will today see a farcical first hearing of the Labor-Greens dominated shotgun inquiry into the legislation, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment and inquiry member Simon Birmingham said today. Treasury officials are among those appearing before the Joint Select Committee this…
DetailsThe Labor-Greens dominated shotgun inquiry into Julia Gillard’s carbon tax legislation is descending from farce into high farce, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment and inquiry member Simon Birmingham said today. A committee already dominated by the legislation’s Labor-Green proponents, given just three weeks to inquire into more than 1100 pages, affording Australians…
DetailsThe Gillard Government must release in full its updated carbon tax modelling, and do so well before Treasury’s appearance before a Parliamentary inquiry this Wednesday, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. Treasury officials have been scheduled to appear this Wednesday morning before the Joint Select Committee’s inquiry into the…
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