E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC 891, Breakfast with Ali Clarke and David Bevan Topics: Health documents; Newstart; Naval Shipbuilding 17/7/2019 8:35AM David Bevan: Well, let’s welcome to ABC Radio Adelaide Simon Birmingham, South Australian Liberal Senator, Minister for Trade… good morning to you… Simon Birmingham: Good morning, good to be with you.…
DetailsAustralia’s spectacular tourism offerings continue to capture the hearts of locals, with more Aussies than ever choosing to holiday in their own backyard. The latest National Visitor Survey released today shows that for the year ending March 2019, Australians took 109 million overnight trips around the country and spent a record $75 billion, up 14…
DetailsE&OE Topics: Personal income tax cuts. 4/07/2019 Ali Clarke: Senator Simon Birmingham, South Australian Senator and Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment. Good morning. Simon Birmingham: Good morning Ali and David. Ali Clarke: So it looks like the vote has been secured, the tax windfall will come but when do we get the money? Simon Birmingham: Well…
Details3 July 2019 Australia registered a record trade surplus in May, underlining the continuing economic dividends the nation’s strong export sector is delivering. The May trade surplus reached $5.7 billion, surpassing the previous monthly record of $5.4 billion in February 2019, according to new data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Australia’s five…
DetailsE&OE Topics: RBA interest rate cut; legislating tax cuts; unemployment rate. 3/07/2019 Ali Clarke: Simon Birmingham, after the RBA cut interest rates to 1 percent yesterday, are you worried about our economy? Simon Birmingham: Well I’m not worried about our economy, our economy’s got great resilience and it’s economic fundamentals are strong, and we’ve got faster economic…
Details3 July 2019 The Morrison Government is pleased to announce today, the appointment of Penny Fowler to the Tourism Australia Board of Directors. Minister for Tourism Simon Birmingham said Mrs Fowler who is Chairman of the Herald and Weekly Times in Melbourne, Deputy Chair of The Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and is on the…
DetailsE&OE Topics: Legislating tax cuts; Christopher Pyne; G20 outcomes; US-China trade, Huawei. 1/07/2019 Patricia Karvelas: Simon Birmingham is the Minister for Trade, he is also a Senator so knows all about this. Welcome to the program. Simon Birmingham: Great to be with you Patricia. Patricia Karvelas: Okay so Labor says that if you vote down their amendments that…
DetailsThe Hon David Coleman MP Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment MEDIA RELEASE 01 July 2019 WORKING HOLIDAY VISA EXPANSION HAS BENEFITS AT HOME AND ABROAD An expansion of the Working Holiday Maker (WHM) visa program which takes effect…
DetailsE&OE Topics: G20 Summit; Australia-US alliance; responsibilities of social media organisations in combatting terrorism. 30/06/2019 11.00AM Leo Shanahan: We begin this morning with promising news for global trade out of the G20 summit in Japan. A tentative truce between the United States and China and a resumption of trade negotiations. Earlier I spoke with Australia’s Trade…
DetailsE&OE Topics: Legislating tax cuts; Cubbie station; new banking code of practice; Alek Sigley. 30/06/2019 Simon Birmingham: The verbal gymnastics required for the Labor Party to sustain their completely unclear, uncertain position in relation to the government’s tax relief agenda were on display this morning as Senator Katy Gallagher struggled to be able to outline exactly…
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