E&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Reforms to higher education 30/08/2017 10:25AM Simon Birmingham: Thanks very much for coming along today. What I’ve sought to do today is to outline once again the pace and the rationale for why it is we need to see some changes in relation to higher education policy in Australia, changes that have…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio Adelaide with David Bevan and Ali Clarke Topics: Tertiary Education; Student Debt; Enterprise Agreements 30/08/2017 08:35AM David Bevan: Well, every Wednesday we bring three federal MPs from South Australia – they have to be South Australian through and through – to discuss the big national issues. We have in…
Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon Julie Bishop MP and Minister for Education and Training, Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham today announced the successful applicants for grants under the 2018 New Colombo Plan mobility program. The 2018 New Colombo Plan mobility grants will support 13,000 undergraduates from 40 Australian universities to live, study and complete…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Dodgy child care operators in Victoria, Labor’s taxes 24/08/2017 08:48AM Rafael Epstein: So we’ve had a number of calls this week from both child care operators and parents who use those small family day care child care operators saying the money’s stopped. The Federal Government is cracking down on smaller child care…
TRANSCRIPT E&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: QLD Government’s failure to monitor child care standards, child care reforms 23/08/2017 04:37PM Ben Davis: Thanks for your company this afternoon. I’ve been asking you about making child care more affordable and your stories. Even if you don’t have kids or grandkids in child care, we’ve still got skin in the…
TRANSCRIPT E&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: SA Government’s failure to monitor child care standards, child care reforms 23/07/2017 12:12PM Alan Hickey: But first to our child care centres. And, of course, they are becoming an increasingly important part of our lives, aren’t they? And we learned today that one in five South Australian child care centres have…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Cracking down on dodgy child care providers 23/08/2017 12:50PM Warren Moore: In the last financial year, taxpayers forked out $7.5 billion to subsidise the child care system, yet we’re hearing today that a large number of them have been ripping off the system by claiming to care for phantom children. How dodgy…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio Adelaide Breakfast with David Bevan and Ali Clarke Topics: SA Government’s failure to monitor child care standards, Pauline Hanson’s burqa stunt 23/08/2017 08:37AM David Bevan: Good morning to Federal Education Minister, Senator Simon Birmingham. Simon Birmingham: Good morning. David Bevan: Amanda Rishworth, Member for Kingston- Labor Member for Kingston,…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech at Teach for Australia event, Parliament House 15/08/2017 Simon Birmingham: Well thanks, thanks very much, Peter, for that kiss of death. All those interviews with you that I’ve survived so far over the years, and now of course just in innocuous circumstances of introducing me in your speech you go…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio Adelaide Breakfast with Ali Clarke and David Bevan Topics: Future frigates and jobs in South Australia, Australia Day, citizenship, media laws and the ABC 16/08/2017 08:36AM Ali Clarke: It’s 24 minutes to 9 and it is time for Super Wednesday. So it’s a good morning to Mark Butler,…