Speech 30 July 2020 It’s good to be with you for the Australian Grains Industry Conference 2020. If there’s one group of people I have spent time with in 2020, it’s grains. Introduction – coronavirus a health and economic challenge This one in a hundred years pandemic is playing havoc with lives and…
Transcript, E&OE Topics: Australian barley industry; trade relationship with China. 30 July 2020 Hugh Riminton: Thank you very much, Minister, for your time. Thank you for taking a couple of questions. I note the figures you have there of having over 50 countries so far that have applied subsidies that are related to the…
Transcript, E&OE Australia Tourism and Transport Forum Topics: Tourism industry in Australia post-COVID; Holiday Here This Year campaign. 30 July 2020 Margy Osmond: We would now like to welcome the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment Simon Birmingham who’s been one of the great warriors on behalf of the industry, always, but in particular over…
Transcript, E&OE Topics: Australian tourism industry; JobKeeper extension’s impact on tourism industry; Holiday Here This Year campaign. 28 July 2020 Alison Branley: So Simon, what have you been hearing about how tourism operators around the country have been fairing the last sort of three to four weeks? Simon Birmingham: This has been the most devastating…
Statement Senator The Hon Simon Birmingham, Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs The Hon Greg Hunt MP, Minister for Health The Hon Alex Hawke MP, Minister for International Development and the Pacific 28 July 2020 Australia is sending an AUSMAT medical team to Papua New Guinea to support our friend and neighbour as it manages a concerning rise in COVID-19…
Transcript, E&OE Topics: COVID-19; Unemployment; JobKeeper and JobSeeker. 27 July 2020 [Excerpt] Hamish Macdonald: Let’s put that to the Government. Let me bring in Senator Simon Birmingham who’s in our Adelaide studios tonight, and Katy Gallagher, the Shadow Finance Minister who is in Canberra tonight. You heard it very clearly there, Senator Birmingham – this…
27 July 2020 In a win for our wine exporters, Australia has today reached an agreement with Canada to remove unfair restrictions on Australian wine sales imposed by the Canadian federal government and in the provinces of Ontario and Nova Scotia. Federal Trade Minister Simon Birmingham said the removal of these discriminatory measures would increase…
Topics: Australia’s trade with China; manufacturing opportunities; energy prices; supply chain issues. 26/07/20 11:24AM Ticky Fullerton: Border shutdowns, tourism smashed, supply chains threatened. Quite a lot for the Federal Trade Minister to deal with. At the end of a big week for the government I spoke with Minister Simon Birmingham from Adelaide. I asked him…
Topics: JobKeeper and JobSeeker announcements 22/07/20 09:06AM David Bevan: But in the meantime, many of you are struggling with much, much smaller amounts of money, trying to get by on JobSeeker, maybe on JobKeeper, and while those payments were increased substantially at the start of a pandemic, the Government has said: well after September, which…
Speech US-Australia relationship 21 July 2020 Last Friday our Prime Minister announced a range of new incentives to encourage more investment in screen production in Australia, to get more film attractions, more series developed and produced here in Australia. We hope and trust that much of that may come through partnership with the…