E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC AM with Kim Landers Topics: Turnbull Government’s plan to make early childhood education and care more affordable, accessible and fairer; Higher education reform; Future schools funding arrangements; Racial Discrimination Act 22/03/2017 07:10AM Kim Landers: In a bid to win enough political support for its overhaul of child care subsidies,…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Adelaide Breakfast with Matthew Abraham and David Bevan Topics: Racial Discrimination Act; Turnbull Government’s plan to make early childhood education and care more affordable, accessible and fairer; Penalty rates; Marriage equality 22/03/2017 08:35AM Matthew Abraham: Super Senator Wednesday today. When one senator’s barely enough, we’re bowling up three. Liberal Senator…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on Channel 10 The Project with Waleed Aly, Carrie Bickmore and Gretel Killeen Topics: Turnbull Government’s plan to make early childhood education and care more affordable, accessible and fairer; Repairing the Budget 22/03/2017 06:36PM Waleed Aly: So, Education Minister Simon Birmingham is here to explain how this is going to work. Minister,…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop interview, Adelaide Topics: Child care fee increases, The Turnbull Government’s child care reform, Same Sex Marriage 19/03/2017 10:00AM Simon Birmingham: Well today we have new government data that shows the continued growth in child care fees, which is a problem for both Australian families and Australian taxpayers, who wear a heightened bill…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop interview, Canberra Topics: Turnbull Government’s plan to make early childhood education and care more affordable, accessible and fairer; Newspoll 20/03/2017 07:45AM Simon Birmingham: These are reforms that will ensure an effective price mechanism to keep a cap on fee growth in the future. More support for the lowest income hard working Australian…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC News 24 Breakfast with Michael Rowland Topics: Turnbull Government’s plan to make early childhood education and care more affordable, accessible and fairer; Newspoll; Marriage equality 20/03/2017 07:47AM Michael Rowland: Let’s head to Federal Parliament now, where the Government’s hoping to make headway on its reforms to child care. But as…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on Sky News Live AM Agenda with Kieran Gilbert Topics: Turnbull Government’s plan to make early childhood education and care more affordable, accessible and fairer; Newspoll; Marriage equality; Accessing superannuation to purchase your first home; Labor’s hypocrisy on penalty rates 20/03/2017 08:37AM Kieran Gilbert: Simon Birmingham, the Newspoll today must be a…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on 4CA Mornings with John MacKenzie Topics: International reports on student performance; Discipline in classrooms; Improving student outcomes 16/03/2017 10:45AM John MacKenzie: You know, how often do we have people calling into this show over the years saying the biggest problem we’ve got with kids is the bloody parents, because discipline no…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop interview, Adelaide Topics: February 2017 labour force data; The Turnbull Government’s initiatives to grow the economy and boost jobs; Jay Weatherill’s attempts to distract from the detail of his energy plan; Expanding the Snowy Hydro scheme 16/03/2017 1:30PM Simon Birmingham: I’m speaking on the labour force data as the Minister for Employment…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio Sydney Breakfast with Robbie Buck Topics: International reports on student performance; Discipline in classrooms; Improving student outcomes 15/03/2017 07:25AM Robbie Buck: A report card that is out this morning to do with Australian kids and their behaviour and it’s not particularly great for us. The report comes from Trends…