Topics: Albanese should meet with Trump; 06:45AM AEDT 12 November 2024 Kenny Heatley: Anthony Albanese is jetting off for the G20 and APEC summits in Brazil and Peru today. The summits are typically about promoting a global economy, climate change action and addressing global inequalities, something an incoming Trump administration threatens to upend. Joining…
Topics: US election; Australia-US relationship; 08:45AM AEDT 7 November 2024 Justin Smith: Simon Birmingham is Shadow Foreign Minister and Liberal Senator for South Australia. Senator, thank you for your time. Simon Birmingham: Good morning, Justin, great to be with you. Justin Smith: Thank you. What was your reaction to the result? Simon Birmingham:…
Topics: US election; Australia-US relationship; 08:05AM ACDT 7 November 2024 Sonya Feldhoff: Simon Birmingham is the [Opposition] Leader of the Senate and Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister. Good morning to you. Simon Birmingham: Good morning. Good to be with you. David Bevan: Simon Birmingham, does the Albanese government have some serious bridge building to…
Topics: US election; Australia-US relationship; Abortion laws; 07:35AM AEDT 7 November 2024 Patricia Karvelas: What’s it like to try and engage with the Trump administration? Shadow Foreign Minister Simon Birmingham was a cabinet minister for the entirety of the first Donald Trump presidency. And he’s our guest this morning. Welcome to the program. Simon…
Topics: Albanese ill-disciplined; US elections; Australia-US relationship; Women’s rights; 01:15PM AEDT 5 November 2024 Anna Henderson: Firstly, there’s a video circulating today from 2017 of Anthony Albanese talking about Donald Trump. How damaging do you think that kind of language would be if Donald Trump was to become president? Simon Birmingham: I think it…
Topics: Palestinian visa holder detained; PMO obfuscates again on Qatar decision; US-Australia relationship; 07:45AM AEDT 5 November 2024 Kenny Heatley: Welcome back. Thanks for being here. A senior home affairs bureaucrat has confirmed a Palestinian visa holder’s application has been revoked on character grounds, and he has been placed in onshore detention. The Opposition is…
Topics: Labor prolonging student debts; US elections; Australia-US relationship; Trump/Ukraine; Safety for politicians; Flight upgrades; 08:20AM AEDT 3 November 2024 Andrew Clennell: Well, joining me live, also from Adelaide, is the Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Birmingham, ahead of this US election. I’ll get to that in a minute. Simon Birmingham, thanks for joining me.…
Topics: UNRWA; Jim Chalmers rank hypocrisy on COVID spending; Questions of Albanese’s influence on Qatar flights; 0820 AEDT 30 October 2024 Kenny Heatley: Joining me live is Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Birmingham. Simon, do you share the Foreign Minister, Penny Wong’s concerns about Gaza? If UNRWA is ultimately not able to operate following this…
Topics: Senate estimates 25 October 2024 Tom Ravlic: Hello and welcome to Critical Line Item, my name is Tom Ravlic. Thank you for joining me for this particular podcast. Governments can be somewhat less than transparent in the normal course of business, just the way governments work. But at various points in time, parliamentarians,…
Topics: China accusations of Australia; Jim Chalmers’s distraction from real inflation problem; Lidia Thorpe; 1020 AEST 25 October 2024 Laura Jayes: China has accused Australia of systemic racism after a diplomat raised human rights concerns against Uyghurs at the UN. A China Foreign Ministry spokesperson criticised Australia for politicising human rights issues. Joining me…