Senate Chamber, Parliament House Tuesday, 8th October 2024 At 6:29 a.m. on the 7th of October 2023, the music stopped at the Nova Festival in Re’im. 12 months ago yesterday, those festival goers, young people dancing, enjoying a weekend out, living the life that so many young Australians do at similar festivals, stopped and…
DetailsTopics: Iranian Ambassador to Australia 1610 AEST 4 October 2024 Clinton Maynard: Now, I think we’ve given the Iranian Ambassador a fair go. He clearly has zero respect for Australia. Earlier in the year, in August, the Government summonsed him because he’d made antisemitic social media posts where he described Israel as a ‘Zionist…
DetailsTopics: Iranian Ambassador to Australia 0905 AWST 4 October 2024 Gary Adshead: First up though, there’s a diplomatic row now ensuing in Canberra. It surrounds comments by the Iranian Ambassador to Australia. His name is Ahmad Sadeghi. He has been posting on social media about, well, he’s been making some horrendous comments about Israel…
DetailsTopics: Iranian Ambassador to Australia 1015 AEST 4 October 2024 Cheng Lei: (Following package piece) Thanks a lot for that Liv, and in fact, to keep talking about this issue, is Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Birmingham. Simon, great to see you. So just on that point, do you think it’s more important to…
DetailsTopics: Iranian Ambassador to Australia 0805 ACST 4 October 2024 David Penberthy: Well, there are mounting calls for the Federal Government to expel Iran’s top diplomat in Australia. This is because the Ambassador has praised the so called, in inverted commas, martyrdom of the internationally recognised terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah.…
DetailsTopics: Iranian Ambassador to Australia 0605 AEST 4 October 2024 Ben Fordham: All eyes are on the Federal Government today. They’re under pressure to expel Iran’s top diplomat in Australia. The Iranian Ambassador, Ahmad Sadeghi, has been caught out making a number of controversial statements. His latest has drawn the attention of the Opposition,…
DetailsTopics: Australian should leave Lebanon; Albanese Government out of step with the US; 09:40AM AEST 3 October 2024 Laura Jayes: Well, the situation in Lebanon is particularly dangerous. There are 15,000 Australians registered living in Lebanon and some 1700 have registered their wish to come home. Joining me now is the Shadow Foreign Affairs…
DetailsTopics: Iranian escalation of Middle East conflict; Albanese must list IRGC as terrorist organisation; Australians advised to leave Lebanon; October 7 for memorial services; 04:15PM AEST 2 October 2024 Greg Jennett: All right. We’ve heard from the government, but there’s more than enough going on in the world right now to warrant hearing…
DetailsTopics: Pro-terrorist protests in Australia; 08:35AM AEST 1 October 2024 Stephen Cenatiempo: The Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Birmingham, joins us now. Simon. Good morning. Simon Birmingham: Good morning. Stephen, good to be with you. Stephen Cenatiempo: It’s now gotten to the point now where no longer can these people hide behind…
DetailsTopics: Pro-terrorist demonstrations in Australia; Troy Bell; 09:20AM ACST 30 September 2024 David Bevan: Simon Birmingham is the Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs in the federal parliament. He’s also South Australia’s most senior senator from the Liberal Party. And he joins us now. Good morning, Simon Birmingham. Simon Birmingham: Good morning, David.…
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