TIM BENNETT: Education unions have used the federal election spotlight to form an alliance to campaign for adequate funding for state schools, they’d like it to be higher on the priority list and the Learn to Grow campaign was launched this week with the heads of Anglicare SA, Uniting Communities, the SA Primary Principals Association and…
KAREN HOWARD: I’m thrilled to welcome Minister Birmingham to the beautiful electorate of Paterson today to launch the P-TECH programme. This is the innovation centre of NSW and it is excellent to see four of our local businesses jump on board straight away to work with kids from Hunter River High. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Thanks so much…
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Can I start by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet and all of Australia’s indigenous people and as Australia’s Education Minister I particularly acknowledge that we continue to learn much more about the traditional knowledge of our indigenous people and learn much from it and to of course build…
A re-elected Turnbull Coalition Government will launch a pilot programme that will see Wyong High School partner with local businesses, including Mars Food Australia and Sanitarium, to improve employment outcomes for local students and deliver stronger results in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) performance. Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham joined Member for…
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: Simon Birmingham, good morning. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good morning Michael, great to be with you. BRISSENDEN: So both Labor and your plan amount to about $3 billion, you tackle it differently, but if that is the case, isn’t it right to target lower and middle income earners which is what this Labor plan will do? BIRMINGHAM: Well, Michael,…
KIERAN GILBERT: Minister, thanks for your time. The details – well obviously you’re going to question how they’re going to fund it, but the policies from Labor on child care, as you’d know, you’re the Minister for this area, they’re going to be popular, aren’t they? SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Well good morning Kieran. I don’t think that when…
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Labor had a monumental failure in both child care policy and Budget policy from Bill Shorten and the Labor Party. They’ve spent $3 billion without having the faintest clue where that money is coming from. Mr Shorten was asked no fewer than seven times at his press conference releasing this policy about how he…
DAVID PENBERTHY: Four weeks down almost, another four weeks to go. Senator Simon Birmingham, thanks very much for coming in. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Well good morning guys, gals, blokes, shells, cobbers, everybody out there! DAVID PENBERTHY: You’ve just broken about five key rules of the new era of political correctness! It is a bit silly that thing, we worry…
EMMA GRIFFITHS: Now innovation is a byword for the Coalition and for most political parties these days. What are the chances of being an innovative nation if we don’t have a thriving education sector? The federal Education Minister is Simon Birmingham. Minister, there’s still a 20 per cent cut on the table for the university sector,…
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: St Pat’s school and technical college, thank you very much for having us here today, it is a real delight to see this facility and this enterprise. Senator David Fawcett has, I think, been agitating me to come up and visit for about eighteen months now. So, I am pleased that we’ve finally reached…