Subject: Schools funding arrangements Kim Landers: With education funding the new battleground in the tussle between the Federal Government and the states and territories, I’m joined from Adelaide by the Federal Education Minister, Senator Simon Birmingham. Minister, good morning. Simon Birmingham: Good morning Kim, great to be with you. Kim Landers: Can you give me an example of why…
Simon Birmingham: The Turnbull Government has clear policies to fix the broken child care system, and the only thing standing in the way of those policies are the Labor Party, Greens and an obstructionist senate. We’re willing to invest, and planning to invest, $3 billion extra to help families pay for the cost of child…
Simon Birmingham: Students have every right to feel safe in our schools in their most important learning environments. They have every right to be safe from bullying, from homophobia, they have every right to feel included in every activity in that school environment. They also have every right to be safe from inappropriate material, material that…
Subjects: Early Development Census, election timing, marriage equality plebiscite, ABCC legislation and Nikki Savva’s new book Michael Brissenden: New figures out today show one in every five Australian children are developmentally at risk by the time they reach school. The Australian Early Development Census is released each three years to measure the development of children in…
Jasmin Midgley: Today the Government has released figures showing how our school-aged kids are faring. The figures are taken from the Australian Early Development Census. It hasn’t been going for too long. This is the third time the survey’s been conducted, and it goes every three years. Senator Simon Birmingham’s the Minister for Education and…
Richard Glover: Simon Birmingham is the Education and Training Minister. Good afternoon. Simon Birmingham: Good afternoon Richard and good afternoon to your listeners. Richard Glover: Vulnerable in what way? What do we mean by that? Simon Birmingham: Well Richard, this is data out of the third national census we’ve undertaken of children in their first…
Tom Elliott: All right, our next guest, as I mentioned earlier, is the Federal Minister for Education and Training, the Honourable Simon Birmingham, Senator for South Australia. Senator, good afternoon. Simon Birmingham: Good afternoon Tom, good afternoon to your listeners. Tom Elliott: Now I have a media release in front of me with your name…
Leon Byner: You know one of the sad stories is that there are people out there who are parents who, when they send their young children to school, the kids don’t have breakfast; or maybe they’re not even clothed properly; or they might not even had a wash which is extraordinary. You kind of wonder…
Simon Birmingham: Thanks very much for coming in today. This is a really important day where we release the third of our census of the nation’s school children in their foundation year, their very first year at school, and it provides us with a comprehensive snapshot of the capability of those children in their first…
Simon Birmingham: The Government’s now making clear the determination in relation to the four remaining schools affiliated with the Australian Federation of Islamic Colleges. As people are aware, last year six schools were served with notice in relation to the continuance of Commonwealth funding to support those schools because of concerns about the independence of…