Interview on Sky News Live AM Agenda with Kieran Gilbert

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on Sky News Live AM Agenda with Kieran Gilbert Topics: Turnbull Government’s plan to make early childhood education and care more affordable, accessible and fairer; Newspoll; Marriage equality; Accessing superannuation to purchase your first home; Labor’s hypocrisy on penalty rates 20/03/2017 08:37AM Kieran Gilbert: Simon Birmingham, the Newspoll today must be a…

Interview on ABC News 24 Breakfast with Michael Rowland

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC News 24 Breakfast with Michael Rowland Topics: Turnbull Government’s plan to make early childhood education and care more affordable, accessible and fairer; Newspoll; Marriage equality 20/03/2017 07:47AM Michael Rowland: Let’s head to Federal Parliament now, where the Government’s hoping to make headway on its reforms to child care. But as…

Doorstop interview, Canberra

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop interview, Canberra Topics: Turnbull Government’s plan to make early childhood education and care more affordable, accessible and fairer; Newspoll 20/03/2017 07:45AM Simon Birmingham: These are reforms that will ensure an effective price mechanism to keep a cap on fee growth in the future. More support for the lowest income hard working Australian…

Doorstop interview, Adelaide

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop interview, Adelaide Topics: Child care fee increases, The Turnbull Government’s child care reform, Same Sex Marriage 19/03/2017 10:00AM Simon Birmingham: Well today we have new government data that shows the continued growth in child care fees, which is a problem for both Australian families and Australian taxpayers, who wear a heightened bill…

Speech to Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership Highly Accomplished and Lead Teacher Summit, Sydney

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech to Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership Highly Accomplished and Lead Teacher Summit, Sydney 17/03/2017 10:05AM Simon Birmingham:     Good morning. Ninna marni, in the language of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains where my home is. Good morning, hello, how are you? Uncle Ray, thank you very much…

Labour force February 2017

Labour force figures released today by the ABS show that seasonally adjusted employment fell by 6,400 over the month, to 11,998,800. Despite this fall, employment has risen by 104,600 (or 0.9 per cent) over the year.   Encouragingly, full-time employment increased by 27,100 in February, to 8,158,900, while part-time employment fell by 33,500, to 3,840,000.…

Doorstop interview, Adelaide

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop interview, Adelaide Topics: February 2017 labour force data; The Turnbull Government’s initiatives to grow the economy and boost jobs; Jay Weatherill’s attempts to distract from the detail of his energy plan; Expanding the Snowy Hydro scheme 16/03/2017 1:30PM Simon Birmingham: I’m speaking on the labour force data as the Minister for Employment…

Action needed now to retain Australia’s leading education system: Minister

New reports released overnight have confirmed Australia risks falling behind the world unless educators and policymakers take action to target students and schools who are up to three years behind higher performing peers.  Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said the full Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report from the OECD, the full…

Doorstop interview, Adelaide

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop interview, Adelaide Topics: International reports on student performance; Discipline in classrooms; Improving student outcomes 15/03/2017 01:40 PM Simon Birmingham: New analysis undertaken of the international TIMSS and PISA samples of Australian students and their academic performance shows that we have a number of worrying trends that really, we need to work cooperatively…