Topic(s): Australian bottom line improvement; Business support; Employment; Great Barrier Reef funding; Ben Fordham: Now, a little bit of news on the economy, we’re starting to bounce back. Figures today show the brakes have come off. The government’s bottom line is improving beyond expectations. The budget bottom line has strengthened by 8.5 billion since restrictions started…
Topics: NSW business support; WA borders; SA reopening; international students; Rapid antigen tests; WeChat 24/01/2022 02:05PM AEST Kieran Gilbert: Let’s go live now, Andrew would take our viewers to Adelaide, the finance minister, Simon Birmingham joins me. Minister, thanks so much for your time, Andrew Clenell with that news today that the New South Wales government…
Topics: Aged care support; Rapid antigen tests 23/01/2022 10:45AM ACST David Bevan: Simon Birmingham, the Federal Finance Minister, has called us. Good morning, Simon Birmingham. Simon Birmingham: Good morning, David Bevan. Good to speak with you again. David Bevan: And we were talking earlier today about a bunch of very angry workers and their union gathering outside your office…
Topics: WA border; Jobs figures; Australia Day; N95 masks 23/01/2022 09:35AM ACST Charles Croucher: Joining us for more is Finance Minister Simon Birmingham and Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers. Good morning to you both. Simon, it’s a decision that has a huge emotional ramification, plus economic ramifications. How do you feel about it? Simon Birmingham: Morning, Charles. All Australians…
Topics: Labour force figures; Rapid antigen tests; forklift drivers; 20/01/2022 7:45AM AEST Lisa Wilkinson: And Finance Minister Simon Birmingham joins us now. Minister, you’ve got the lowest unemployment figures in 13 years. Congratulations on those numbers. But the survey period doesn’t include the devastating impact of Omicron. What sort of numbers will you…
Topics: Labour force figures; Rapid antigen tests; 20/01/2022 04:30PM AEST Scott Emerson: Increased by 65,000, that’s a monthly change of 0.5 per cent. Now, while the underemployment rate fell 1.9 per cent to 6.6 per cent, the participation rate remains constant at 66.1 per cent. Now the bottom line here is there’s a sensational…
Topics: Rapid antigen tests; Student and working holiday maker visa holders; Peter Stefanovic: On that point, let’s go to the Finance Minister live from Adelaide, Simon Birmingham joins us live. Minister, good to see you. Thanks for your time this morning. Now National Cabinet today. Prime Minister wants states to abandon those daily rapid tests…
Topics: Return to school; student and working holiday maker visa holders; Living with COVID; 20/01/2022 7:32AM AEST Madeleine Morris: Let’s go back to our top story national cabinet meeting today, Finance Minister Simon Birmingham joins us now from Adelaide. Thanks so much for your time, Senator Birmingham. Simon Birmingham: Good morning, Madeleine. Good…
Topics: Booster vaccines; COVID-19 drugs; George Christensen; 20/01/2022 7:15AM AEST David Koch: The interval for COVID booster shots is being brought forward to three months in an urgent move to protect parents and dampen another explosion in cases when schools go back next week. It comes as the federal government admits it was blindsided by…
Topics: Dismantling and moving the Vickers Vimy; South Australian rapid antigen test deliveries; Defence assistance in hospitals; George Christensen remarks 19/01/2022 10:05AM AEST EO&E… Brenton Cox: Thanks very much. My name is Brenton Cox, I’m the managing director of Adelaide Airport. Thanks very much to everyone for coming here to mark Vimy’s next…