E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio Sydney Breakfast with Robbie Buck Topics: University course completion rates; Turnbull Government’s measures to support uni students to make the right course choices; Higher education student debt 18/01/2017 07:23AM Robbie Buck: Do you have somebody in the house or in the extended family who is a little twitchy and…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on 3AW Breakfast with Ross Stevenson and John Burns Topics: University course completion rates; Turnbull Government’s measures to support uni students to make the right course choices 18/01/2017 7:48AM Ross Stevenson: You are familiar when it comes to tertiary education, well undergraduate degrees, of the expression ‘pathways’? John Burns: No. Ross Stevenson:…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop interview, Adelaide Topics: University course completion rates; Turnbull Government’s measures to support uni students to make the right course choices; Higher education student debt; Importance of vocational education; Turnbull Ministry composition; Retirement of the Member for Heysen 18/01/2017 12:00PM Simon Birmingham: Thanks very much for coming along. Today around Australia,…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC NewsRadio with Sandy Aloisi Topics: University course completion rates; Turnbull Government’s measures to support uni students to make the right course choices; Turnbull Ministry composition 18/01/2017 8:16AM Sandy Aloisi: Australia’s tertiary education dropout rate is worsening. Government data released this morning reveals that completion rates are falling, with one third…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio National Breakfast with Hamish Macdonald Transcript: The Turnbull Government’s child care reforms; Parliamentary travel entitlements 09/01/2017 07:37AM Hamish Macdonald: The Turnbull Government has nominated child care reform as a top priority for Parliament this year. That’s fitting considering warnings families could soon be paying up to $220 a day…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop interview, Adelaide Topics: The Turnbull Government’s child care reforms; Parliamentary travel entitlements; Political candidate selection processes 08/01/2017 01:30PM Simon Birmingham: One of the top priorities of the Turnbull Government in 2017 is to secure the passage of our child care reforms, because our reforms will ensure that the hardest working Australian families…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on 2GB Breakfast with Chris Smith Topics: AAT decision on Malek Fahd Islamic School funding 06/01/2017 07:15AM Chris Smith: I mentioned to you earlier the complete arrogance of Australia’s largest Islamic school after their annual funding was removed. The Federal Government announced that they would no longer provide $19 million in annual…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Press Conference, Adelaide Topics: AAT decision on Malek Fahd Islamic School funding; Tax cuts 05/01/2017 01:00PM Simon Birmingham: I welcome the decision today of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to affirm and uphold the decision of my department to suspend funding to the Malek Fahd Islamic School Limited in New South Wales.…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Press conference, Adelaide Topics: Child care availability; Labor’s inability to read Budget projections; Australia’s embassy in Israel; Electricity market in SA; Injuries on Manus Island 02/01/2017 12:30PM Simon Birmingham: What we have seen today from Kate Ellis and the Labor Party is another case of all scare but no solution when it comes…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Local Radio Lunch with Ben Knight Topics: ANAO report on VET FEE-HELP 21/12/2016 11:13am Ben Knight: Minister, welcome to ABC Radio Summer. Simon Birmingham: Great to be with you Ben. Ben Knight: Why did it take so long for the department, for the ministry, for your ministry to work out…