LEON BYNER: More than 200 billion litres of precious floodwaters is evaporating upstream in the Menindee Lakes while dying Riverland towns and desperate irrigators battle for water entitlements. Now, the ordinary person … says, how can we do this? Let’s put some sense to this… … LEON BYNER: Now Simon Birmingham, you’re…
… KIERAN GILBERT: … today Andrew Forrest is going to be outside the WA Press Club putting the boot in to Kevin Rudd… Simon Birmingham, if the Government is able to secure a compromise with the likes of Andrew Forrest and some mining giants over there, does that not leave the Coalition extremely…
… CELINA EDMONDS: Senator Birmingham, you have to admit that we are going to hear that line, ‘phoney Tony’ a lot now? It does seem that ‘straight shooting Tony Abbott’ may have shot himself in the foot on this one. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Celina, Tony’s only sin last night was to give a direct…
LEON BYNER: … do you remember yesterday we spoke to [South Australian Attorney-General] John Rau and John said look we’re going to deliver quickly on two promises we made and that’s a credit to the Government, first one … you remember during the election campaign [then South Australian Attorney-General] Michael Atkinson wanted bloggers on the…
PETER MARES: While Special Minister of State Senator Joe Ludwig hasn’t yet had time to take a serious look at the questionable use of how-to-vote cards in the South Australian election, other politicians at state and federal level have vowed to push for reform. Labor’s deployment of blue T-shirted Family First look-alikes at polling booths in…
MATTHEW ABRAHAM: … we have in front of us an email forwarded by Simon Birmingham but it purports to be from Peter Whiteman, Manager, Building the Education Revolution Asset Services, Department of Education and Children’s Services … division … leading the way to improved learning environments for education communities … and it is a…
ASLEIGH GILLON: Joining me here in our Canberra studio this morning is the Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham … Bill Shorten will be with us soon from Melbourne. Simon, before we start talking about reshuffles let’s just take a moment to recognise Nick Minchin’s contribution … of course he was in the Senate for some…
LEON BYNER: …lets talk about water, there’s been enormous flooding in Queensland and New South Wales … obviously these waters flow and because we’re such a distance from Queensland and New South Wales, it takes time and there’s a lot evaporation and seepage and so on, but of course we have a State election…
SONYA FELDHOFF: … right now there is a lot of focus on water flows given that we’re about to see some of the flows that were promised in an agreement back in January between Premier Mike Rann and New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally. Questions, though, are being asked by Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham, questions…
MATTHEW ABRAHAM: Simon Birmingham is the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Action… South Australian Senator… Simon Birmingham, good morning. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good morning Matthew, David, listeners. MATTHEW ABRAHAM: You want to respond to Penny Wong on the Green Loans scheme. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Thanks, Matt. I didn’t hear all of Penny but I…