E&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…
E&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…
E&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…
E&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…
E&OE Interview on Insiders with Annabel Crabb Topics: G20 summit; US-China trade relations and implications for Australia; Huawei; legislating tax cuts; Christopher Pyne. 30/06/2019 Annabel Crabb: Standing by in Adelaide, is Trade Minister Simon Birmingham. Thank you for joining us and welcome back to Australia. Simon Birmingham: Great to be with you Annabel. Annabel Crabb: Let’s…
E&OE Topics: G20 summit; US-China trade tensions; Chinese visitors to Australia; foreign investment; coal; AHKFTA; IA-CEPA; innovation. 28/06/2019 Interviewer: So do you think the G20 members can work out some sort of communique that actually is close to the consensus? Simon Birmingham: I hope so. That was achieved last year in Buenos Aries and having…
E&OE Topics: Australia-US alliance; G20 summit; US-China trade tensions; coal; AHKFTA; IA-CEPA. 28/06/2019 Interviewer: Prime Minister Scott Morrison kicked off the G20 schedules by discussing the diplomatic and security challenges including Iran and North Korea. Now Trump said he is committed to maximizing the economic partnership with Australia through fair, balanced, and mutually beneficial trade…
E&OE Topics: Australia-US alliance; G20 summit; US-China trade tensions; Iran; Alek Sigley. 28/06/2019 7:35AM Hamish Macdonald: Well, the US President Donald Trump has lauded the closeness of the Australia-US alliance during a dinner with the Prime Minister on the eve of the G20 Summit at the Japanese city of Osaka. But Scott Morrison took advantage of that…
E&OE Topics: Tax cuts package. 25/06/2019 Waleed Aly: Simon Birmingham is the Acting Treasurer, you saw him in that story there and he joins us now. So ultimately the controversy here boils down to that one big tax bracket in stage three of the cut so that bracket would then span people who are earning $45,000…
Topics: G20; US-China trade war; Labor’s decision not to support full tax relief package; IR reform; ‘Bad Blood’ series. 25/06/2019 David Speers: I want to continue on this front, talk about what we can expect at the G20 but also the tax cut debate back here. Joining me now is the Trade Minister and the Acting…