Doorstop, Parliament House

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…

Interview on Channel Nine, Today on Saturday, with Richard Wilkins and Rebecca Maddern.     

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…

Interview on 2GB Drive with Jim Wilson     

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…

Doorstop, Parliament House

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…

Interview on ABC News, News Breakfast with Michael Rowland

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…

Interview on Channel 9, Today with Karl Stefanovic and Allison Langdon   

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…

Interview on Sky News Live First Edition with Peter Stefanovic

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…