Transcript, E&OE Topics: China suspending beef imports. 13 May 2020 Samantha Armytage: Key Federal Ministers deny that the PM’s push for a global COVID-19 inquiry has triggered a new trade war with Australia’s biggest export market. China has now suspended beef imports from four local abattoirs as tensions between Canberra and Beijing increase. The halt…
Transcript, E&OE Topics: Australian trading relationship with China; COVID-19 inquiry. 13 May 2020 Ditts: Simon Birmingham, is the Trade Minister and he joins us now. Simon, good morning Simon Birmingham: G’day, Ditts, good to be with you. Ditts: Good on you, thanks so much for your time. I know you’re taking many, many calls this morning. Is…
Transcript, E&OE Topics: Australian trading relationship with China; COVID-19 inquiry. 13 May 2020 Ditts: Simon Birmingham, is the Trade Minister and he joins us now. Simon, good morning Simon Birmingham: G’day, Ditts, good to be with you. Ditts: Good on you, thanks so much for your time. I know you’re taking many, many calls this morning. Is…
Transcript, E&OE Topics: China suspending beef imports; China dumping inquiry on Australian barley; COVID-19 inquiry. 13 May 2020 Peter Stefanovic: And one of those senior politicians joins us now. So joining us from Canberra is Trade Minister Simon Birmingham. Well just on that Minister, are you relieved for Josh Frydenberg? Simon Birmingham: Well given Josh is…
Joint media release The Hon Michael McCormack MP, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment The Hon Sussan Ley MP, Minister for the Environment The Hon Warren Entsch MP, Special Envoy for the Great Barrier Reef 12 May 2020 Tourism…
Joint media release The Hon Michael McCormack MP, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment The Hon Sussan Ley MP, Minister for the Environment The Hon Warren Entsch MP, Special Envoy for the Great Barrier Reef 12 May 2020 Tourism…
Transcript, E&OE Topics: Australian meat processors licence suspensions; COVID-19 inquiry. 12 May 2020 Simon Birmingham: Thanks very much for coming along guys. We were advised overnight, through the Department of Agriculture, that four Australian meat processors had their licences suspended in relation to exports to China. The reason given for this suspension relates to instances…
Transcript, E&OE Topics: Return of jobs, barley battle with China, COVID-19 funding limit. 12 May 2020 Lisa Millar: Let’s go back to our top story now, with predictions a quarter of a million jobs could return within weeks as lockdown restrictions are eased across the country. For more, the Trade Minister, Simon Birmingham, joins us…
Joint media release The Hon Karen Andrews MP, Minister for Industry, Science and Technology Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment 11 May 2020 The Morrison Government is backing small and medium sized Australian businesses to tap into new markets around the world, with support for a series of export…
Transcript, E&OE Topics: China-Australia trading relationship, Australian trade economy. 11 May 2020 Annelise Nielsen: Joining us live now is Trade Minister, Simon Birmingham. Simon Birmingham, thank you for your time. Very significant news with this barley development with China. Do you think it is premature though, to link it to the trade tensions with the…