Topics: Breach of quarantine rules in Sydney; Foreign Relations Bill; Lachlan Murdoch’s Christmas party. 7/12/20 07:13AM Michael Rowland: Speaking of Christmas, it is the final parliamentary sitting week of the year in Canberra and there is a lot going on. Let’s bring in the Finance and Trade Minister Simon Birmingham. Minister, good morning to…
Topics: Final parliamentary sitting week; Foreign Relations Bill; returning Australians 2/12/20 08:50AM Simon Birmingham: Final parliamentary sitting week of a year 2020, which has been a year unlike any other. Important priority for this week, remains the health and economic security and safety of Australians, the passage of the extension of the coronavirus…
Topics: Tourism Australia’s holiday gifting campaign, China’s tariffs on Australian wine. 05/12/20 09:26AM Rebecca Maddern: Welcome back to Weekend Today. The January-December holiday period last year was worth a whopping $4.1 billion to New South Wales, $3.4 billion to Victoria but this year, obviously, things will look very, very different. Richard Wilkins: That’s…
Topics: Australia lifted out of recession; JobKeeper and JobMaker programs; Australia-China trade relationships; Australian lamb trade with Qatar. 02/12/20 3:37PM Jim Wilson: Well, overnight tensions between Australia and China escalated further, this time with the Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece The Global Times publishing a cartoon of a bloodied kangaroo targeting an Australian journalist. I’ll…
Topics: Australia-China relationship; Tariffs on Australian wine; World Trade Organization; 2/12/20 08:50AM David Penberthy: Yesterday, at about 7 o’clock, we were aiming to catch up with South Australian Senator, Simon Birmingham. We did get in touch with him over the course of the day and he joins us now on 5AA Breakfast. Minister, good…
Topics: Opening of Queensland border; Domestic Tourism; Trade dispute with China; International students returning to Australia. 30/11/20 Simon Birmingham: Can I firstly welcome the news that the Queensland border is going to open to visitors from New South Wales and Victoria. Queensland tourism operators have done it incredibly tough this year; it…
Topics: Australia-China trade relationship; International student pilot program; 30/10/20 08:07AM Michael Rowland: Let’s take you to Canberra where the Federal Government is taking China to the World Trade Organization, over Beijing’s decision to slap tariffs – very big tariffs on imports of Australian barley. Finance and Trade Minister, Simon Birmingham, joins us from Parliament…
Topics: Queensland Tourism; Cruise Industry; Taking China to the World Trade Organization. 30/11/20 07:48AM Karl Stefanovic: The move sparking a surge of bookings from holiday makers keen to visit the sunshine state. Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, Simon Birmingham, joins us now from Canberra. Simon, big day, huh? Simon Birmingham: Look, it’s…
Topics: Australia-China trade relationship, Queensland tourism; Cruise industry; 11/30/2020 07:35AM Peter Stefanovic: Let’s go to Canberra now, joining us live is Simon Birmingham, Minister for Finance, Trade and Tourism. Minister, good to see you. Thanks very much for joining us this morning. Let’s start off with China, the ongoing stoush that exists at the…
Topics: Economic relationship between Australia and China 29/11/20 12:34PM Graeme Goodings: Well, there’s no doubt that China has been a wonderful market for South Australian and Australian goods for many years, a reliable market, a big market. All that seems to have changed in recent times, and many of our products, translating to billions…