Senator the Hon. Simon Birmingham Minister for Finance Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment Leader of the Government in the Senate Senator for South Australia Senator the Hon. Linda Reynolds Minister for Defence Senator for Western Australia The Hon. Melissa Price MP Minister for Defence Industry Federal Member for Durack Date: Friday, 18 December 2020…
Topics: Australia-China trade relationship; Government reshuffle; Budget Update; JobSeeker and JobKeeper. 18/12/20 08:51AM Spence Denny: Now, we know that a coalition reshuffle is predicted for today and that Senator for South Australia, Simon Birmingham, already has been appointed as the Finance Minister and will relinquish Trade, which is expected to go to Dan Tehan.…
Topics: Budget update; Australia’s economic position; JobSeeker; COVID vaccine rollout, Aged Care home care packages, Australia-China trade relations. 18/12/20 7:35AM Tom Rehn: But Kate, right now we’re going to talk some figures because it’s been a difficult year with everything that’s happened in 2020. Kate Collins: Yes. To talk to us, give us…
Topics: Budget update; Australian exporters; Iron Ore. 18/12/2020 07:47AM Norman Swan: So the good news here is that Australians are back spending and back working; the optimistic words of the Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, yesterday, as he handed down his Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook. The budget update shows unemployment is expected to peak…
Topics: New South Wales COVID-19 outbreak, JobKeeper; 18/12/20 07:33AM Madeleine Morris: Let’s go to federal politics, and yesterday’s mid-year budget update had some good news about the economy with a $16 billion improvement on the bottom line. But trade tensions with China are still looming large. Finance and Trade Minister, Simon Birmingham, joins us…
Topics: New South Wales COVID outbreak; border closures; International flight crews. 18/12/20 07:12AM Sylvia Jeffreys: Let’s now unpack our top story further and the troubling outbreak in Sydney’s Northern Beaches this morning. The fall out of which is jeopardising everything from state borders to the proposed New Zealand travel bubble. Joining me now is…
Government budgets can be both eye-watering and mind-numbing affairs. Even budget updates, like the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook released yesterday, bring hundreds of pages of analysis, projections and data points. What really matters from such economic statements is the impact the decisions within them have on the lives of Australians now and into the…