Subjects: Campaining; candidate resignations EO&E………………………………………………………… DEB KNIGHT: The tight race for the campaign turns nasty. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good morning Deb… DEB KNIGHT: Albo these are going to far though when police have to be called in? ANTHONY ALBANESE: Well there’s a question here Deb over whether the police have in fact been called in over…
Subjects: Tourism announcement EO&E………………………………………………………… WARREN ENTSCH: Thanks very much for being here today, it’s a very, very important day for tourism. I welcome our Minister here, Simon Birmingham, our tourism Minister here, it is great to have our Douglas Shire Mayor, Julia Leu, Wendy’s here, Wendy Morris, is here of course is the Chair of…
Subjects: Cambodia; Border Protection; Carbon Modelling; Bill Shorten; Candidates. EO&E………………………………………………………… SABRA LANE: On our lead story about Cambodia, Australia spent $55 million settling three asylum seekers in Cambodia, one of them says they were tricked by the Government. Does it make the whole policy look wasteful? SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Sabra my understanding is this was a voluntary…
Two hours ago we said that Bill Shorten had backflipped on the number of childcare workers who would benefit from his unprecedented intervention into the Australian wages market. Well, it seems he has since backflipped on that backflip. At his press conference in Tasmania, the Leader of the Opposition claimed that he “would like to…
Bill Shorten has shown yet again he is just making it up as he goes along when it comes to his policies. Today the Leader of the Opposition claimed that 140,000 child care workers would benefit from his policy even though there are 195,000 of them across the country. But the 140,000 workers referenced by…
Topics: Pauline Hanson; energy policy; federal election campaign. Host: Good morning to Simon Birmingham, Minister for Trade, Liberal Senator and the Coalition spokesman for the campaign, good morning to you sir. Simon Birmingham: Good morning. Good to be with you. Host: You’re talking to us from Sydney today. Simon Birmingham: I…
Subjects: Candidates, Tim Wilson, Gender Equality, Labor Party, Bill Shorten, Childcare EO&E………………………………………………………… PATRICIA KARVELAS: I want to bring in my first guest this afternoon, Government front bencher and Liberal campaign spokesman, Simon Birmingham. Simon Birmingham. Welcome. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: G’day, Patricia. PATRICIA KARVELAS: This Liberal candidate, Peter Killin, who is running in the seat of…
Subjects: Preferences; Climate policy EO&E………………………………………………………… CHRIS KENNY: Senator Simon Birmingham he joins me now. Thanks for joining us Simon. Pretty messy day when you have to scratch a candidate this fellow by the name of Jeremy Hearn posting intolerant and horrible things against Muslim Australians. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Well Chris there’s no doubt that those…
In Bill Shorten’s latest attempt to explain the details and cost of his tax policies he’s now passed the buck and told Australians to simply work it out for themselves. “…in terms of taxation policies, you can do the maths yourself.” Bill Shorten, Doorstop, 1 May 2019 The facts are clear. A Labor Government would…
It appears Bill Shorten’s promise to disendorse his NT Senate Candidate Wayne Kurnorth was a lie. Despite publicly pledging to dump Mr Kurnorth for the offensive and anti-Semitic views he has espoused over the years, Labor has failed to follow through, reinforcing once again that Labor cannot be held to its word. At pre-poll today,…