The switchover to digital TV in regional South Australia will cost many hotels, motels and caravan parks thousands of dollars in areas where terrestrial TV transmission towers aren’t being upgraded, Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham said today. It could cost tourism operators up to $750 to convert each TV to digital satellite under the…
DetailsThe Gillard Government is set to waste millions more of taxpayers’ dollars on a ‘phase 2’ carbon tax advertising campaign assault on the very same taxpayers, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today The Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency has revealed in response to a question asked…
Details“Julia Gillard must today reveal why the Federal Labor Government’s smoke and mirrors funding con will leave South Australians paying higher water bills,” Coalition Murray-Darling Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham said today. Labor promised $328 million to South Australia for the desalination plant at Port Stanvac. The Australian Government will commit a further…
DetailsLabor’s carbon tax will be a disincentive for efficient irrigation water use and penalise some of Australia’s most efficient water users, Coalition Murray-Darling Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham said today. Irrigation water suppliers are warning that rising electricity bills will see an average irrigator’s water bill jump by $282, on top of the increased…
DetailsThe ABC’s reports today that Water Minister Tony Burke won’t support a bad Murray-Darling Basin Plan expose his hypocrisy and political game playing, Coalition Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham said. ?On 4 April this year Minister Burke wrote to the Leader of the Opposition stating: ? ?”I have been concerned with recent statements you…
DetailsTony Burke’s call for the Coalition to decide on the draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan treats the notion of consultation with contempt, the Coalition says today. “Dear Tony, I hear that you want to know our position on the draft basin plan? I didn’t know you had made up your mind. I didn’t realise…
DetailsA $190 hike in electricity prices is only the first such hit Canberra households will face under the carbon price and is an example of what all Australians will pay, Acting Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Environment and HeritageSimon Birmingham warned today. The ACT Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission has release its draft…
DetailsThe Gillard Government should not waste one more cent on trying to sell to taxpayers its unpopular carbon tax, Acting Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Environment and Heritage Simon Birmingham said today. A half-year report on Government advertising suggests the Gillard Government spent $16.8 million on media placement or ‘media buy’ for carbon…
DetailsAustralians should beware of smoke and mirror tricks in relation to any suggestions Labor is taking an axe to its Climate Change bureaucracy, Acting Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Environment and Heritage Simon Birmingham said today. It follows the revelation that the head of the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (DCCEE),…
DetailsThe Auditor-General’s report into the conduct of the Australia Network tender is a damning indictment of the handling of this tender by both Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy. It demonstrates that the dysfunction at the heart of this Government is responsible for the ultimate corruption of this $223 million…
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