Joint media release: Senator James Paterson, Shadow Minister for Cyber Security and Countering Foreign Interference Senator Claire Chandler, Assistant Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs The Coalition strongly welcomes today’s application of targeted sanctions by the Australian Government against certain individuals responsible for horrific human rights abuses. The Magnitsky-style sanctions applied upon 13 individuals…
Joint media release The Hon Peter Dutton MP, Leader of the Opposition The Coalition welcomes the appointment of Ms Kerri Hartland as Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS). With an eminent and distinguished career in the Australian Public Service and the private sector, Ms Hartland is well-placed to deliver the national security leadership…
Topics: Government too slow to finding energy crisis relief; Bipartisan trip to the Pacific; 9:50AM AEDT 9 December 2022 Laura Jayes: Joining me live now is the Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Birmingham. Simon Birmingham, thanks so much for your time. Energy is what we’ve all been talking about for many weeks now. We had the budget…
Joint media release: Senator James Paterson, Shadow Minister for Cyber Security and Countering Foreign Interference Senator Claire Chandler, Assistant Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Today, one year has passed since Australia’s Magnitsky-style and other thematic sanctions laws came into effect. The new laws, passed by the Coalition with bipartisan support, enable Australia to…
With Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Ted O’Brien MP Topics: South Australia is ready to have a mature discussion about nuclear power; Time to Talk Nuclear; Australians suffering under the energy crisis; National Cabinet; Gas; Nuclear-powered submarines; Liberal Party diversity; 10:20AM ACDT 6 December 2022 Simon Birmingham: Well, thanks for coming…
Topics: Delegation to Taiwan; AUSMIN; AUKUS; ANU election survey; Voice to Parliament; 7:35AM AEDT 6 December 2022 Patricia Karvelas: A cross-party delegation of Australian backbenchers are visiting Taiwan this week and it’s starting to cause a bit of a stir. Chinese state media, The Global Times, has written that the politicians from certain countries who…
Topics: Stolen Medibank data leak; Labor Government behind the Eightball to fix energy crisis; Voice to Parliament; Labor’s political stunt in the House; 10:28AM AEDT 1 December 2022 Journalist: I just wanted to get your reaction to the latest Medibank information- well, the release of Medibank data? Simon Birmingham: Many Australians will rightly…
Topics: Labor’s political stunt in the House; Labor Government behind the Eightball to fix the energy crisis; Ongoing protests in China; 10:20AM AEDT 1 December 2022 Laura Jayes: Let’s bring in now the Shadow Foreign Minister, Simon Birmingham. Simon Birmingham, thanks for your time. In the other place in oppose to the Senate, The House yesterday…
Ending what has been a sorry saga, the Coalition welcomes the Albanese Government’s backflip to reinstate the fourth Estimates week in the Parliamentary Sitting Calendar for 2023. The attempt to axe a week of Senate estimates would never have happened in the first place if the Albanese Government was genuine in its claimed belief in…
The Coalition and Senate crossbench will not tolerate the Albanese Government’s attempt to push through a Parliamentary Sitting Calendar for 2023 without the usual four weeks of Senate estimates. The Opposition, along with the cross-bench, have written to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Wong, stating that the Albanese Government must reinsert…