E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on Sky News AM Agenda with Kieran Gilbert Topics: Citizenship; Foreign interference laws; Same-sex marriage 06/12/2017 08:33AM Kieran Gilbert: For more on all of that I spoke to the Education Minister Simon Birmingham, and began by putting to him the fact that Labor maintains they’ve taken all reasonable steps and that the…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop Interview, Adelaide Topics: Funding for South Australian schools 01/12/2017 4:00PM Simon Birmingham: This is a humiliating back-down by Jay Wetherill but it’s a welcome one for South Australian schools who can now be certain they will receive the Turnbull Government’s record $1.3 billion in funding for them next year. It means we…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio Adelaide, Breakfast with Ali Clarke Topics: Same-sex marriage; Auditor-General finding on SA State Government grant to One Community; Murray-Darling Basin Plan 29/11/2017 08:35AM Ali Clarke: Good morning to Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham. Simon Birmingham: Good morning, Ali. Ali Clarke: And leader of the Australian Conservatives,…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC AM with Sabra Lane Topics: Banking Royal Commission; Same-sex marriage; Sam Dastyari, University completion rates and graduate outcome data 29/11/2017 08:05AM Sabra Lane: For his view on all of this and some issues in his portfolio, we’re joined in the studio by the Minister for Education and Training, Senator Simon…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop Interview, Canberra Topics: University completion rates and graduate outcome data; Same-sex marriage; Sam Dastyari 29/11/2017 7:30AM Simon Birmingham: The Turnbull Government’s higher education reform, in particular our push to have universities have performance payments applied to 7.5 per cent of their student funding. As this new data shows that numbers of…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC News radio with Fiona Ellis-Jones Topics: University completion rates and graduate outcome data; Same-sex marriage 29/11/2017 07:23 AM Fiona Ellis-Jones: The Federal Government has released new data showing that students are dropping out of university in record numbers. The figures show two-thirds of university students are failing to complete…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on Sky News AM Agenda with Kieran Gilbert Topics: Queensland state election; Same-sex marriage; Bennelong by-election. 27/11/2017 08:33AM Kieran Gilbert: I spoke to the Education Minister Simon Birmingham and began by suggesting to him that given the size of the swing against the LNP that the PM will cop some of the…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio Adelaide with Ali Clarke Topics: Federal school funding for South Australia 24/11/2017 07:11AM Ali Clarke: Look, I don’t know if you’ve heard this little ditty, maybe your child has brought it home. Certainly ours did through their pre-school and early primary school years and it goes something like this:…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop interview, Adelaide Topics: National Energy Guarantee; Citizenship of Parliamentarians 22/11/2017 2:15PM Simon Birmingham: The National Energy Guarantee that the Turnbull Government released early this year was of course developed and adopted on the recommendation of the independent Energy Security Board. It was recommended because it is the ideal way for us to…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio Adelaide, Breakfast with Ali Clarke Topics: Funding for South Australian schools; Parliamentary sitting dates; National Energy Guarantee. 22/11/2017 08:35AM Ali Clarke: Good morning to Simon Birmingham, the South Australian Liberal Senator and Minister for Education. How are you? Simon Birmingham: Good morning, Ali, good to be with you. Ali…