Australia risks sending jobs overseas under plans to include new “greenhouse triggers” in expanded environment protection legislation, Senator Simon Birmingham said today. Coalition Senators are firmly opposed to the greenhouse trigger canvassed in today’s Government-controlled majority report of a Senate committee inquiry into the effectiveness of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act…
DetailsThe leaking of a supposed list of websites blacklisted by the Rudd Government highlights problems with its approach to cyber safety, Senator Simon Birmingham said today. Senator Birmingham is Deputy Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Communications and the Arts and through the Estimates process has regularly questioned the Government on…
DetailsToday’s appointment of new Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Special Broadcasting Service Corporation (SBS) Board members has cost too much and taken too long, Senator Simon Birmingham said today. Questions asked by Senator Birmingham in recent Senate Additional Estimates revealed the new board appointment process had cost more than $200,000, with the new…
DetailsThe Rann Government must appoint an independent expert panel to oversee the preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on its proposal to flood the Lower Lakes with seawater, Senator Simon Birmingham said today. It follows a determination by the Department of Environment, Heritage, Water and the Arts that the proposal is a…
DetailsThe Rudd Labor Government has been given another chance to do the right thing by the Murray-Darling Basin, through a Private Member’s Bill introduced by Senator Simon Birmingham this afternoon. The introduction of the Water Amendment (Saving the Goulburn and Murray Rivers) Bill 2008 follows Labor’s repeated refusal to support Coalition efforts to stop…
DetailsThe Australian Senate has again sent an unequivocal message to Kevin Rudd that the North-South Pipeline, which will send 75 billion litres of water a year to Melbourne, must be stopped. Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham said this Senate action followed the defeat of Coalition amendments to block the pipeline by Kevin Rudd and…
DetailsEfforts to save the iconic Snowy River have been specifically secured as a result of Opposition amendments in the Senate to the Water Amendment Bill 2008. This demonstrates that claims by Victorian Water Minister Tim Holding of threats to the Snowy, as a result of Coalition and Greens amendments, are bare-faced lies. …
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