[Check against delivery] 82 years ago today the battle of Guadalcanal raged. The strategic significance of the Pacific wasn’t a theory, but a bloody reality. In just 3 days 22 ships were sunk. 100 aircraft downed. 3,600 lives lost. The sacrifice of conflict writ large. Yet, far from futile. …
DetailsTopics: Albanese should meet with Trump; 06:45AM AEDT 12 November 2024 Kenny Heatley: Anthony Albanese is jetting off for the G20 and APEC summits in Brazil and Peru today. The summits are typically about promoting a global economy, climate change action and addressing global inequalities, something an incoming Trump administration threatens to upend. Joining…
DetailsAIIA National Conference 2024 – Facing Fragmentation The Realm, Canberra ACT Monday 11th, November 2024 [Greetings omitted] An important day, Remembrance Day, a critical day in our nation as it is in so many around the world. As today we reflect 106 years ago upon the armistice and the conclusion of World War One.…
DetailsQuestion: Melissa Conley Tyler from the Asia Pacific Development, Diplomacy and Defence Dialogue. So, Shadow Minister, you talked about the need to prevent the Global South being led in directions that I think are against Australia’s interests. I’m interested in your view of Australia’s development program and the way that it engages with the developing…
DetailsThank you very much for the invitation to be with you all today and the opportunity to be here. I have come back from a week in Canberra just this morning. Literally straight from the airport to this event. It’s been a big week, as was acknowledged and a big week in Senate estimates for…
DetailsTopics: US election; Australia-US relationship; 08:45AM AEDT 7 November 2024 Justin Smith: Simon Birmingham is Shadow Foreign Minister and Liberal Senator for South Australia. Senator, thank you for your time. Simon Birmingham: Good morning, Justin, great to be with you. Justin Smith: Thank you. What was your reaction to the result? Simon Birmingham:…
DetailsTopics: US election; Australia-US relationship; 08:05AM ACDT 7 November 2024 Sonya Feldhoff: Simon Birmingham is the [Opposition] Leader of the Senate and Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister. Good morning to you. Simon Birmingham: Good morning. Good to be with you. David Bevan: Simon Birmingham, does the Albanese government have some serious bridge building to…
DetailsTopics: US election; Australia-US relationship; Abortion laws; 07:35AM AEDT 7 November 2024 Patricia Karvelas: What’s it like to try and engage with the Trump administration? Shadow Foreign Minister Simon Birmingham was a cabinet minister for the entirety of the first Donald Trump presidency. And he’s our guest this morning. Welcome to the program. Simon…
DetailsTopics: Albanese ill-disciplined; US elections; Australia-US relationship; Women’s rights; 01:15PM AEDT 5 November 2024 Anna Henderson: Firstly, there’s a video circulating today from 2017 of Anthony Albanese talking about Donald Trump. How damaging do you think that kind of language would be if Donald Trump was to become president? Simon Birmingham: I think it…
DetailsIt was mid-February 2020. Covid was spreading. The world was closing borders. Indeed, Australia had already closed our borders to China. Yet more than 100 of Australia’s leaders of business and industry joined me, as the then trade minister, in traveling to India, for the first Australia India Business Exchange. From the resources…
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