Millions of taxpayer dollars are going to a cheer squad of organisations supporting Julia Gillard’s carbon tax at the same time as the Government’s taxpayer funded advertising campaign has blown out to twice the announced cost, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. Under questioning from Senator Birmingham in a…
DetailsThe carbon tax isn’t even law yet but the Gillard Government has already started building the massive bureaucracy it needs to administer it, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. In response to questioning from Senator Birmingham in a Senate Supplementary Budget Estimates hearing this morning, the Department of Climate…
DetailsSteve Georganas today betrayed Adelaide’s western suburbs by voting for the carbon tax, Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham said today. “Today, Mr Georganas had the opportunity to restore faith with the people of his electorate,” Senator Birmingham said. “Mr Georganas had the opportunity to stand up for the people of Hindmarsh, honour the…
DetailsThe 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…
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…
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…
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…
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