Topics: Israel-Hamas conflict; Illegal boat arrivals; Migration legislation; Yusuf Zahab; 08:45AM AEDT 07 April 2024 David Speers: Simon Birmingham, welcome to the program. Simon Birmingham: Hello, David. Good to be with you. David Speers: So, you called for a full and thorough investigation. You said the findings should be made transparent.…
Topics: Death of Australian aid worker in Gaza; International Democracy Union (IDU) Forum 2024, Asia-Pacific 4:06PM AEDT 4 April 2024 Greg Jennett: Peter Dutton and his Shadow Foreign Minister Simon Birmingham find themselves in the New Zealand Capital today. They’re there to talk to like-minded leaders of democratic countries. Simon Birmingham joined us from…
Topics: Death of Australian aid worker in Gaza; International Democracy Union (IDU) Forum 2024, Asia-Pacific 11:19AM AEDT 4 April 2024 Kieran Gilbert: Let’s get some reaction now from the Coalition. Joining me live from Wellington, New Zealand, is the Shadow Foreign Minister, Simon Birmingham. You’re there for a democratic union conference. I’ll get to…
Topics: Labor’s migration bill blunder; 07:45AM AEDT 28 March 2024 Patricia Karvelas: The government’s controversial migration bill that could jail asylum seekers who refuse to cooperate with moves to deport them, was rejected by the Senate on the last sitting day before the budget. The Coalition and the Greens voted for the legislation…
Topics: UK & US cyber-attacks; Cyber laws; Labor’s fuel efficiency U-turn; Julian Assange; Religious Discrimination Bill; Supermarkets; 07:55AM AEDT 26 March 2024 Simon Birmingham: Overnight, we’ve seen both UK and US authorities make statements in relation to cyber-attacks that have been seen in their countries. In particular, we’ve seen attribution to Chinese entities of…
Topics: UN Security Council resolution; Julian Assange; Labor’s fuel efficiency U-turn; Wages; 07:45AM AEDT 26 March 2024 Pete Stefanovic: Well, relations between Israel and the US are at a low ebb after Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled a planned trip by a delegation to the Washington to Washington, I should say, after the US abstained from…
Topics: AUKUS announcement; Chinese Foreign Minister visit to Australia; Paul Keating meeting; Ambassador Rudd; 09:45AM AEDT 22 March 2024 Laura Jayes: Australia will send billions of dollars to the United Kingdom to help build these nuclear reactors, to power our fleet of AUKUS submarines. Joining me now is Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Simon…
Topics: Opposition meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister; Ambassador Rudd; 04:50PM AEDT 20 March 2024 Greg Jennett: Senator, welcome. We will get to Kevin Rudd, I promise. But as you’ve come directly- Simon Birmingham: We don’t have to. Greg Jennett: We will, we will. I think we might have discussed it before by…
Topics: Chinese Foreign Minister visit to Australia; Religious discrimination legislation; Liberal Party; 07:45AM AEDT 20 March 2024 Patricia Karvelas: China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet with Penny Wong today, marking Beijing’s most high profile visit to Australia since relations between the two nations broke down in 2017. There are strong signals from China.…
Topics: Chinese Foreign Minister visit to Australia; Religious discrimination legislation; 07:25AM AEDT 20 March 2024 Simon Birmingham: I look forward to meeting later today with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and welcome him to Australia. The period during which China refused to have, and ceased to have ministerial level dialogue with Australia was counterproductive…