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…
Topics: MYEFO; JobKeeper; Australia-China trade relations; state borders; 17/12/20 03:43PM Luke Grant: Now, as we mentioned, the Mid-Year Fiscal and Economic Outlook has been released today. The budget deficit is $16 billion lower than had been forecast just two months ago. It’s reliant on plenty of things like state borders remaining open, a vaccine…
Topics: MYEFO; JobKeeper; Australia-China trade relationship; 17/12/20 03:07pm Cathy Border: Well, if the Federal Budget was a game of footy, the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook is half time. It’s a chance to examine the accounts of the nation. And an initial examination seems to show an economy recovering quicker than expected. Simon Birmingham…
Topics: MYEFO; domestic borders; JobKeeper; Australia-China trade relations 17/12/20 10:36AM Gary Adshead: Simon Birmingham is the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment. Plenty to talk with him about this morning. Thanks very much for your time. Simon Birmingham: G’day. Great to be with you. Thank you. Gary Adshead: First of all, what’s…
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 The Hon. Josh Frydenberg MP Treasurer Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party Federal Member for Kooyong Date: Thursday, 17 December 2020 The 2020-21 Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) builds on…
Topics: MYEFO, JobKeeper, Australia-China trade relationship, International borders/travel 17/12/2020 07:52AM Simon Birmingham: Later today the Treasurer and I will release the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook. This is an important opportunity for us to provide an update in relation to the Budget and economic outlook, which itself was, of course, only handed down…