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…
Topics: Fiji, AUKUS, India 16:10 AEDT 9 March 2023 Greg Jennett: We do have a piece of breaking news to bring to you now. Fiji’s former Prime Minister, Frank Bainimarama, has been charged by Fiji Police for abuse of office. Now, it’s alleged that Mr Bainimarama and the country’s former Police Commissioner interfered in…
Topics: India, Agriculture Department finances, The Voice, power bills 08:00AM AEDT 9 March 2023 Simon Birmingham: I am very pleased to see the Prime Minister in India, building upon the strong Australia-India relationship. Australia’s relationship with India is at a real high point, having been driven by our signing of a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership…
Topics: India, China, AUKUS, The Voice 07:47AM AEDT 9 March 2023 Patricia Karvelas: With the Prime Minister in India this week, he’s using degrees as a form of diplomacy. A new agreement will make it easier for students to have their tertiary education recognised in each country. Simon Birmingham is now the shadow foreign…
8 February 2023 Senator BIRMINGHAM (South Australia—Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) (19:34): Towards the end of last year I welcomed the opportunity to join the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Wong; the Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Mr Conroy; and the shadow minister for international development and the Pacific, Mr McCormack, on…
8 March 2023 Senator BIRMINGHAM (South Australia—Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) (10:10): Closing the gap is a powerful concept because it bridges from the symbolic to the practical. The concept of closing the gap is to establish and pursue measurable, verifiable targets to achieve genuine equality in outcomes, in outcomes that are real to…
7 March 2023 Senator BIRMINGHAM (South Australia—Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) (15:42): Ira Lyubarskaya is a young woman, a young university student with dreams and hopes. But Ira is from Mariupol. Ira is one of so many human faces with human stories that have been told as part of the bloody war that…
Topics: Foreign Minister meeting Chinese counterpart – Ukraine, Robodebt Royal Commission 09:20AM AEDT 3 March 2023 Laura Jayes: The Foreign Minister, Penny Wong has met her new Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in India. She faces the tricky task of toeing the diplomatic line as Australia looks to improve relations…
Topics: Labor’s superannuation broken promise 16/03/2023 08:37AM ACDT Stacey Lee: Well, you’ve probably heard the news about the superannuation tax changes from ’25-’26. Around 80,000 people will have their superannuation impacted – those are the people with more than $3 million in super and the tax rate will change from 15 to 30 per cent for…
Topics: Australian held hostage in PNG returns home; Labor driving superannuation uncertainty for Australians; 07:45AM AEDT 28 February 2023 Peter Stefanovic: Well, let’s head now to the Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Birmingham. Simon, good to see you. Thanks for your time this morning. So Bryce Barker, he’s friends, he’s family, no doubt relieved. He arrived home…