The Australian Senate has set up an inquiry into the Weatherill Labor Government’s TAFE SA debacle. Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham welcomed the Senate agreeing to the inquiry that the Turnbull Government had proposed. “Jay Weatherill won’t do his job and hold Susan Close to account so the Australian Senate will,”…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop interview, Canberra Topics: SA TAFE crisis 06/12/2017 Simon Birmingham: Over the last five years, the Federal Government has provided $771 million to the South Australian Government to support vocational education and training. What we’ve seen in that time is constant policy chaos. The South Australian Government had a policy called Skills For…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio Adelaide, Breakfast with Ali Clarke Topics: TAFE SA; Citizenship of Parliamentarians 06/12/2017 09:05 AM Ali Clarke: Good morning, on a Super Wednesday, to Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens Senator for South Australia, spokesperson on Finance and Trade, how are you? Sarah Hanson-Young: Good Ali. Good morning. Ali Clarke: Good morning Mark…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on Sky News AM Agenda with Kieran Gilbert Topics: Citizenship; Foreign interference laws; Same-sex marriage 06/12/2017 08:33AM Kieran Gilbert: For more on all of that I spoke to the Education Minister Simon Birmingham, and began by putting to him the fact that Labor maintains they’ve taken all reasonable steps and that the…