Topics: AUKUS 09:15AM AEDT Tuesday, 14 March 2023 Stacey Lee: Simon Birmingham is a Liberal Senator for South Australia and the Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister. Good morning, Simon Birmingham. Simon Birmingham: Good morning, good to be with you. Stacey Lee: Do you believe this timeline? Simon Birmingham: Well, I think there…
Topics: AUKUS 08:50AM AEDT Tuesday, 14 March 2023 Peter Stefanovic: … joining us is the Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Birmingham. Minister, good to see you. Thanks for your time. So what’s the Opposition’s official take on this this morning? Simon Birmingham: G’day Pete. Well, we welcome the evolution in terms of AUKUS.…
Topics: AUKUS 0900 AEDT Tuesday, 14 March 2023 Reporter: Senator Birmingham, what’s your reaction to the new AUKUS details that we’ve heard this morning. Simon Birmingham: Well, we continue to give bipartisan support to a venture that we are proud to have started. There are many questions though still to be answered about…
Topics: AUKUS 08:40AM AEDT Tuesday, 14 March 2023 David Penberthy: Simon Birmingham, long standing Liberal Senator for SA and the Federal Opposition Leader in the Senate joins us now. Birmo, good morning. What’s your take on this? It seems to be pretty much to be unadorned good news, does it not? Simon Birmingham: Good…
Topics: AUKUS; AUKUS funding, China 08:05AM AEDT 14 March 2023 Patricia Karvelas: Well, as we’ve been reporting, the AUKUS arrangement has been officially announced now in San Diego. The US President Joe Biden, the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and our own Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have announced the deal and it is huge. As…
Joint statement: The Hon Peter Dutton MP, Leader of the Opposition The Hon Andrew Hastie MP, Shadow Minister for Defence Tuesday 14 March 2023 The Coalition welcomes the Government’s announcement of the next step in the AUKUS partnership established by the Coalition Government in 2021. The concept of AUKUS was first conceived by Prime…