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Most recent comments on things by Simon Birmingham

  • Charlie Schroeder: The wildlife part of this bill, referring to clearing up congestion in wildlife matters, does not mean that shortcuts should be taken, and wildlife suffer. That has already been happening too... (24 March 2020)
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  • Tibor Majlath: Funny that under the carbon tax, network costs which did not attract the tax increased constantly and added to a large part of the energy bill even then. Yet the Coalition was blind to this... (24 October 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: On electricity price rises the senator surprises by stating that "there have been many factors there in terms of the retail charges, the wholesale charges and the distribution charges that, at... (20 June 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: The real lesson is that power security only appeared on the radar when the blackouts occurred in SA, and only as a political issue over renewables. (1 April 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: If the Coalition is so mindful of national power reliability and security, why didn't the federal government step in and fully or partially keep the 546-megawatt Northern Power Station open for... (1 April 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: How much will be paid for by every woman, man and child across Australia for the Coalition's Snowy 2.0? Will it be paid for by every business in terms of increased costs of operation? Seems... (1 April 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: Yes, the funding does go up each and every year, it is what is not said that is so annoying. Using the Senator's figures we have the following increases :- 2014 $13.7b 2015 $14.9b +$1.2b... (9 May 2016)
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  • Tibor Majlath: The senator mentions the Coalition's abatement cost of $13.12/tonne in the same breath with Labor's alleged carbon price of $209/tonne. The first is a cost to government in 2015. The second is... (1 January 2016)
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  • Lindsay Holmwood: Wow, way to conflate two separate issues. Censorship of the entire internet is no where in the same category as junk food advertising. Firstly, the research conducted on junk food... (13 March 2009)
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