Topics: Covid disaster payment; quarantine facilities 03/06/2021 06:30PM Lisa Wilkinson: Finance Minister Simon Birmingham joins us now. Minister, this disaster payment is very welcome news, but there are a lot of criteria to work through, like the federal government being the only ones deemed able to declare a hot spot. Why wouldn’t you just trust…
Topics: National accounts; vaccine rollout; Victoria lockdown 02/06/2021 11:15AM Liam Bartlett: Joining us this morning is the Federal Finance Minister and Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Simon Birmingham. Senator, good morning. Simon Birmingham: Good morning, Liam. Great to be with you. Liam Bartlett: And you, too, I suppose. Very…
Topics: Aged care vaccinations; pandemic support; Christian Porter; 01/06/2021 07:45AM Peter Stefanovic: Welcome back to the first edition, let’s go live to Canberra now. Joining me is the Finance Minister, Simon Birmingham. Minister, good to see you as always. The government promised all aged care residents and staff would be vaccinated by March this…
Topics: Aged care vaccinations; pandemic support; 01/06/2021 07:30AM Lisa Millar: Parliament resumes today, joining us from Canberra is Finance Minister Simon Birmingham. Good morning. Welcome to News Breakfast. Simon Birmingham: Hello Lisa, good to be with you. Lisa Millar: Minister, we’ll get onto the finance side of your portfolio very shortly. We…
Topics: Aged care vaccinations; 01/06/2021 07:15AM Karl Stefanovic: Bring in Federal Finance Minister Simon Birmingham in Canberra. Good morning to you. Thanks for your time today. You just heard it then. Basically, you allowed staff to move across facilities in multiple locations and before staff and the residents were vaccinated. Do you feel like…
Topic(s): Victorian lockdown; financial support; vaccine rollout; quarantine facilities Gabriella Power: Welcome back to AM Agenda. Victoria’s down is expected to cost the economy one billion dollars. Thousands of people will be out of work for the next seven days and this time there’s no JobKeeper. Joining us live is Finance Minister Simon Birmingham. Minister, thanks…
Topics: Victorian lockdown; vaccine rollout; Budget; quarantine facilities 27/05/2021 03:30PM Scott Emerson: Well, here we go again, COVID is running rampant in Victoria, and, of course, there are concerns that given how many people have been close contact with those with COVID now, that it could, of course, come here to Queensland as well. This…
Topics: Upper-Hunter by election; Kurri Kurri power station; vaccine passport; vaccine rollout; 24/05/2021 06:15AM Fran Kelly: But on another front, the Prime Minister’s facing stiff opposition to a plan he’ll take to the next national cabinet for what’s effectively a vaccine passport that would deny freedom of movement to Australians who refuse to be immunised.…
Topics: Netball SA Stadium redevelopment; SA public transport; Middle East ceasefire 21/05/2021 09:35AM Simon Birmingham: I’m thrilled to be here today to announce the fact that the Morrison Government is going to commit some $6 million to the upgrade of Adelaide’s prime netball stadium. It’s wonderful to be here with Corey Wingard, state minister…
Topics: Labour force data; international borders; vaccination rollout; UK FTA; 21/05/2021 09:15AM Laura Jayes: Live is the Finance Minister, Simon Birmingham, good to see you. Do these numbers yesterday justify ending JobKeeper when you did? Simon Birmingham: Hello, Laura. They certainly do. When we saw in the lead up to the end of…