Topics: Hezbollah device explosions; Childcare expansion; 09:20AM AEST 19 September 2024 Laura Jayes: Joining me now is a Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Birmingham. Simon, thanks so much for your time. This is certainly an escalation, a new phase of this war in the Middle East. Does it concern you? Simon Birmingham:…
Topics: PLA dangerous demonstration video; Expansion of AUKUS; Hezbollah device explosions; Australia should oppose UN motion; 07:50AM AEST 18 September 2024 Patricia Karvelas: Just two months after the Chinese premier’s visit to Australia, with hopes of China-Australia relations stabilising, China’s military has released dramatic video appearing to show its interception of an Australian surveillance…
Topics: Australia should oppose UN motion; Labor’s bad housing policy; Business worse off under Labor; US political violence; 07:45AM AEST 17 September 2024 Pete Stefanovic: Now the US is pressuring Australia to vote down a UN motion demanding Israel withdraw from Gaza and the West Bank. The draft legislation proposed by the Palestinian Authority…
Topics: Australia should reopen embassy in Kyiv; Assasination attempt on Trump; Quad meeting; Albanese needs to give up bad policy; Senate sitting week; 04:15PM AEST 16 September 2024 Greg Jennett: Just on a different front, though, with the Senate sitting, that means Labor’s Senate Leader and Foreign Minister Penny Wong is in Canberra. There’s…
Joint media release: Senator Claire Chandler, Shadow Assistance Minister for Foreign Affairs 16 September 2024 Today we acknowledge the second anniversary of the death of Mahsa Jina Amini and the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. The Coalition, in solidarity with the Iranian-Australian community, continue to call for action against the horrific oppression of women,…
This week the risk of the Albanese Labor Government doing destructive deals with the Greens is enormous. Many of Anthony Albanese’s big spending bills are stalled, making the government even more desperate as it tries to clear the decks for a possible early election. Labor should rule out an avalanche of billion-dollar, economy…
As always when I’m in Canberra, I called my kids last night. Our youngest, just turned 12, asked what I would be doing over the next day. I mentioned that I would be speaking to an important group about Australia’s relations with China. She said, “will you be talking about how we like China, dislike…
Topics: Social media age limits; RBA-Chalmers; 07:45AM AEST 10 September 2024 Pete Stefanovic: Anthony Albanese will announce social media restrictions this morning that aims to stop kids from accessing social media because of the scourge of online bullying. Joining us live now is the Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Birmingham, for his thoughts on…
Topics: Gaza visas; RBA-Chalmers; Ukraine 0920AM AEST 6 September 2024 Laura Jayes: Joining me now is the Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Birmingham, live from Adelaide. Good to see you. First of all, just on that individual’s case, trying to bring his elderly mother from Gaza. He’s taken a bit of a shot at…
Wednesday, 4 September 2024 85 years ago today, England and France declared war against Germany. What was to follow was both calamitous and fortunate; tragic yet heroic. Freedom loving people owe everything to this generation of leaders and lifters, who carried the day in World War II against oppression and aggression. Their victory,…