Labor’s entry into the child care policy debate after three years of silence today revisits their 2007 election promise to build 260 new child care centres which then-Minister for Child Care Kate Ellis would backflip on after the election. Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said yesterday Labor committed to continuing a broken child…
EWEN JONES: It is an absolute pleasure to be here today with Simon Birmingham, the Minister for Education. We are about to make a very specific announcement, which I will allow him to elaborate on. What I can say from my perspective is that anything we can do to improve the opportunities for young people to…
MATTHEW ABRAHAM: After all those changes that were made to the voting system for the Senate are we still going to end up with a crazy Senate that is a mixture of Dad’s Army and something else with a whole lot of minor parties making it very difficult for any government, Labor or Liberal, to get…
EWEN JONES: It is an absolute pleasure to be here today with Simon Birmingham, the Minister for Education. We are about to make a very specific announcement, which I will allow him to elaborate on. What I can say from my perspective is that anything we can do to improve the opportunities for young people to…
Thank you so much Martin for that thoughtful and generous welcome. Stephen, thank you for having me along again this year, indeed for breaking me in to be the Minister for Education at last years dinner. It was a very good trial run and I’m please that it obviously went well enough that I was…
Good morning ladies and gentlemen and yes, I am the Minister. Thank you Ross for that warm welcome, thank you for recalling my pre-politics life working in Australia’s wine industry and gathered here as I am at the National Catholic Education conference I thought I might start by acknowledging not just all of those many…
PATRICIA KARVELAS: My first guest tonight is the Education Minister Simon Birmingham. Welcome to the program. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good evening Patricia, great to be with you. KARVELAS: Bill Shorten says Labor can win, that was his message today, so what’s your view? Will the Coalition win on July the 2nd? BIRMINGHAM: Well I’m confident that in the end the…
Subjects: How to Vote Cards; Health Funding; Superannuation; Tax; Islamic Cleric Farrokh Sekaleshfar. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good morning, great to be with you. ABRAHAM: You’re the number one on the ticket, aren’t you? BIRMINGHAM: I am indeed. ABRAHAM: You knocked Cory Bernardi off. BIRMINGHAM: I don’t think it is a case of knocking off, we had a very peaceful arrangement that…
Labor’s Kate Ellis has sensationally finally admitted that Labor’s tinkering with the child care system in 2008 resulted in “inflationary” pressure on fee increases and failed to guarantee their new promises won’t do the same. Ms Ellis’ arguments as to why history won’t repeat itself with a spike in fee increases simply don’t stack up.…
Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham today announced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students across the country will have more access to the support and information they need to make decisions about life after school through two new initiatives worth $1.7 million launched today and supported by the Turnbull Government. Minister Birmingham said the…