Topics: Beer tax; RBA rates decision; Housing fund; 07:45AM AEST 1 August 2023 Peter Stefanovic: Let’s go to Canberra. Joining us, Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Birmingham. All feeds into the cost of living, doesn’t it? Simon, good to see you. We’re not smiling over that increase in beer costs, though, but- Just start…
Topics: Housing fund; JobSeeker 09:45AM ACST 31 July 2023 David Bevan: Welcome Simon Birmingham. Simon Birmingham: Good morning, David. Good to be with you. David Bevan: Simon Birmingham, lots happening in federal parliament in Canberra this week. Chief among them will be this renewed debate over housing. Now the Government is reintroducing…
Topics: Taipan helicopters; JobSeeker; 08:02AM AEST 31 July 2023 Simon Birmingham: Good morning. All of our thoughts are clearly with the families of the four Australian Defence Force personnel missing as a result of the Taipan helicopter crash. These four personnel, our uniform, they serve our nation and sadly, we see these sorts of…
Topics: Taipan helicopters; AUSMIN discussions; JobSeeker; Labor’s political stunt on housing; 07:45AM AEST 31 July 2023 Hamish MacDonald: Continuing our coverage in relation to the Taipan helicopters, it was back in 2021 that the then Defence minister, now Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, signed off on a decision to replace them with US Black Hawks…
Topics: Labor political stunt on housing; 03:45PM ACST 28 July 2023 Andy Park: Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Birmingham. Welcome to you. Simon Birmingham: Hello, Andy. Great to be with you again. Andy Park: Before we get to these developments today, we have the Prime Minister flagging a possible double dissolution if…
Topics: AUSMIN talks; AUKUS; Labor’s political stunt on Housing Bill 04:20PM AEST 28 July 2023 Greg Jennett: Simon Birmingham. Time is brief with you this afternoon, but let’s launch straight into it. The Housing Australia Future Fund. You’ve said today the only basis for the Government reintroducing the bill to the House is to…
Topics: AUSMIN talks; AUKUS; Julian Assange; Labor’s political stunt on Housing Bill 08:50AM ACDT 28 July 2023 Laura Jayes: Let’s go to the Shadow Foreign Minister, Simon Birmingham now. He’s been standing by for us. Thanks so much for your time, Senator. First of all, does any of this talk make you nervous? We…
We recently passed 500 days since the beginning of Russia’s brutal, illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine. World leaders marked the grim anniversary with statements of support and, in many cases, further commitments to the materials and training needed to help Ukraine in its battle. For the people of Ukraine, this milestone is obviously one…
The Hon Andrew Hastie MP, Shadow Minister for Defence Senator James Paterson, Acting Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs The Opposition welcomes the government’s announcement of further support to Ukraine in the form of 30 additional Bushmaster vehicles. For some time, the Opposition has been calling on the government to provide additional Bushmasters to Ukraine, which…
Engagement matters, but outcomes matter even more. As Anthony Albanese prepares to head to Lithuania for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Leaders’ Summit he should be thinking about the long-term opportunities this meeting provides for Australia to further strengthen our security partnerships, via a more permanent relationship with NATO. Regrettably, this is a…