It’s time Labor’s Amanda Rishworth familiarised herself with the Turnbull Government’s reforms to early childhood education and care so that she stops falsely scaring families, especially given she’s said a Shorten Labor Government would adopt our policy. “I intend to allow the new system to have time to bed down before I look at a…
Joint media release with Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack, Minister Bridget McKenzie, Minister Dan Tehan and Minister John McVeigh The Coalition Government has accepted all 11 recommendations of the Independent Review into Regional, Rural and Remote Education (IRRRRE), committing to a whole of government approach in response. Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack said the…
The Turnbull Government is urging hundreds of thousands of families to make the switch to the new child care and early learning system or risk missing out on the new subsidies. Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said new data revealed that with just weeks to go until the new subsidy system starts…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Address to Speech Pathology Australia Conference, Adelaide 28/05/2018 09:10AM Simon Birmingham: Thank you very much for that welcome and for the opportunity to join you all here with Speech Pathology Australia for your national conference. It’s always a delight, as a senator from South Australia, I often manage to find the chance…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on 2GB with Ben Fordham Topics: Western Civilisation scholarship program 24/05/2018 3:15PM Ben Fordham: Now, what do you make of this? Students and staff at an Australian university are up in arms over a plan to offer a degree on Western civilisation. The Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation has been talking with…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech at the Christian Schools Australia Forum at Parliament House 21/03/2018 7:15PM Simon Birmingham: To my various Parliamentary colleagues. I can spot a few in the audience. And to former Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson. Many distinguished leaders of Christian education from around Australia and the various representative bodies who have come together…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Illawarra Drive Lindsay McDougall Topics: Launch of the rail training centre at the University of Wollongong; NAPLAN; childcare subsidies 23/05/2018 04:51 PM Lindsay McDougall: He’ll be in the studio very soon here to chat to you about many things including, today, the University of Wollongong hosted the Minister for…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop interview, Wollongong Topics: funding for the University of Wollongong’s Research Centre of Excellence into Rail Track Infrastructure; NAPLAN; protest action; pre-selections 23/05/2018 03:15PM Simon Birmingham: We’re celebrating the $3.9 million investment from the Turnbull Government into the University of Wollongong’s Research Centre of Excellence into Rail Track Infrastructure. And what this…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio Adelaide Breakfast with David Bevan Topics: Archbishop Philip Wilson; the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse; company tax cuts. 23/05/2018 08:35am David Bevan: Let’s welcome our Super Wednesday panellists. Good morning to Simon Birmingham, Liberal Senator for South Australia and Federal Education…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech to Council of Private Higher Education AGM, Canberra 23/05/2018 10:00AM Simon Birmingham: Thanks very much, Don, for that welcome. Thank you for the chance to come and address the COPHE AGM today. Apologies that I’m a little late. On a morning of parliamentary sitting sessions, we have a regular catch-up between…