Topics: Budget 2021 10/05/2021 08:35AM David Bevan: The leader of the government in the Senate and the Federal Finance Minister, Simon Birmingham, joins us now. Good morning, Simon Birmingham. Simon Birmingham: Good morning, David, Ali and listeners. David Bevan: The last state budget your colleague in the state parliament, Treasurer Rob Lucas, said,…
Topics: Budget 2021 10/05/2021 08:05AM Sabra Lane: Tomorrow’s budget will be the coalition’s eighth, but Senator Simon Birmingham is first as Finance Minister and he joins us now from Parliament House. Good morning. Simon Birmingham: Good morning, Sabra. Great to be with you. Sabra Lane: This is the second budget worked out during…
Topics: Budget 2021 10/05/2021 07:35AM Fran Kelly: Simon Birmingham is the Finance Minister. He’s in our Parliament House studio. Minister, welcome back to breakfast. Simon Birmingham: Good morning, Fran. Great to be with you. Fran Kelly: The coalition’s new mantra is to spend its way out of the COVID recession. Will this be…
Topics: Federal Budget; Travel restrictions from India 07/05/2021 03:30PM Scott Emerson: The countdown is on for the budget. Next Tuesday is the big day and it’s a big day not only for the Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, but also this man, the Federal Finance Minister, Simon Birmingham, and he joins me now. Minister, thanks for being…
Topics: Returning Australians; Travel ban from India; Quarantine facilities; International travel; 06/05/2021 07:45PM Peter Stefanovic: The Finance Minister, Simon Birmingham. Minister, good to have you with us, as always. Thanks for your time. We had Dr. Anthony Fauci on our programme this morning, and I asked him about the travel ban that we have…
Topics: Australian in India; Quarantine facilities; Returning Australians; Catherine House; Budget: South Australian infrastructure; 03/05/2021 09:30AM David Bevan: Senator Simon Birmingham, the Minister for Finance, thank you for coming in. Simon Birmingham: Good morning. Good to be with you. David Bevan: And on the tie line, Senator Penny Wong, Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister. Good morning to…
Topics: Budget; Jobs; wage growth; quarantine facilities; Andrew Lamming; 29/04/2021 04:00PM Patricia Karvelas: Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says he wants to drive the unemployment rate down to below pre pandemic levels, the unemployment rate is currently five point six per cent. But Mr Frydenberg says new Treasury modelling suggests it would need to be…
Topics: Jobs recovery; household savings; budget surplus 29/04/2021 04:40PM Jim Wilson: Simon Birmingham is the Finance Minister and he joins me live on the line this afternoon. Minister, welcome back to Drive. Simon Birmingham: Jim, it’s great to be with you again. Jim Wilson: Good on you. The last time our unemployment rate…
29/04/2021 03:30PM Scott Emerson: Federal budget will be delivered on May the 11th. The treasurer has come out today and said no. Well, tough measures in terms of cutting no cuts this time, but he will be aiming to get the unemployment rate down below pre pandemic levels. And he’s also promising lower taxes. Simon…
Interview on Sky News Live, AM Agenda with Laura Jayes Topics: Australia-China relationship; Australians in India; Climate Conference; George Christensen 23/04/2021 09:30AM Laura Jayes: Live now to the finance minister, Simon Birmingham, he joins us live from Adelaide. Thanks so much for your time. Are we just bracing for impact now from China in retaliation?…