E&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Australia-Hong Kong Free Trade Agreement (A-HKFTA); One Nation. 26/03/2019 6:45AM Sabra Lane: Minister good morning and welcome to AM. What additional benefits will Australians stand to gain from this agreement? Simon Birmingham: Well good morning Sabra. This is the 8th trade deal signed by our government and with Hong Kong, its sealing a trade deal…
DetailsE&OE… Topics: Brexit Journalist: Minister where are discussions at with Britain and the EU? Simon Birmingham: Well we have free trade negotiations underway with the EU and we are ready to commence with the UK the minute that they actually finalize Brexit assuming they do. We’ve already put in place a trade working group to…
DetailsJoint Release with Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne We are pleased to announce the appointment of Nick Nichles as Australia’s new Consul-General and Senior Trade Commissioner in San Francisco. The United States is the largest foreign investor in Australia, Australia’s largest foreign investment destination, and the fourth largest destination for Australian exports. Mr Nichles…
DetailsE&OE… Topics: Tourism Australia’s new working holiday makers campaign; minimum wage; student climate change rally. Narelle Graham: South Australia is making a pitch to bring French, German and UK students for a working holiday on the Neptune Islands in the Spencer Gulf, this is part of a seven point five million dollar tourism strategy that…
DetailsE&OE… Simon Birmingham: Thanks so very much for that welcome. I’m very conscious as the closing speaker today at The Destination Australia conference that I am the last thing standing between everybody and drinks. And so I’m confident that a politician’s speech you are eager for me to go for as long as I possibly…
DetailsE&OE… Topics: Coal exports to China; Huawei; China tourism to Australia; direct flights to China; Brexit; energy policy. 15 March 2019 10.34PM Ticky Fullerton: Well, in the meantime, there are a few questions around Australia’s relationship with China on the trade front, particularly this alleged deliberate slowing down of coal exports from Australia to China;…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Christchurch shootings; Fraser Anning. 20/03/2019 8:35AM David Bevan: Well let’s welcome Simon Birmingham South Australian Liberal Senator, Minister for Trade and Tourism and Investment. Good morning to you. Simon Birmingham: Good morning David and Ali. David Bevan: Amanda Rishworth, Labor Member for Kingston in Adelaide’s south, and Federal Shadow Minister for Early Childhood. Good morning…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: New Zealand terrorist attack; Fraser Anning. 18/03/2019 6:35PM Lisa Wilkinson: And he joins us now. Senator I understand the government is preparing to censure Fraser Anning, but is anyone in your own party reflecting on your own language over recent times? Simon Birmingham: Well I would hope that an event as tragic and profound as what…
DetailsJoint release with Minister for Industry, Science and Technology Karen Andrews The development of a national blockchain roadmap and $100,000 of funding from the Morrison Government will help position Australia’s burgeoning blockchain industry to become a global leader. The roadmap will focus on a number of policy areas including regulation, skills and capacity building, innovation,…
DetailsE&OE… Simon Birmingham: As-salāmu ʿalaykum. Today we gather in shock and in grief. But also with determination and hope in our hearts. Last Friday the solemnity of worship was shattered, along with so many lives, by a terrorist act of a far right extremist. That it happened in the country of our ANZAC partner, in…
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