E&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech to Australian Principals Federation AGM 13/10/2016 07:00PM Simon Birmingham: Thank you very much Rob, for that introduction, your kind introduction, following on from Julie’s kind introduction and impassioned words. It’s wonderful to be with you tonight. It’s always wonderful to be introduced as a former director of the Winemakers’ Federation when you’re…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech at Ai Group launch of Graduate Employment Service 11/10/2016 11:20AM Simon Birmingham: Thank you. Thank you very much, Innes. It’s wonderful to be here with you and Megan and Don Matthews, the chair of your graduate board, and representatives of industry, just as it is to be here with John Dewar and…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech to French Synergies Conference 30/09/16 Simon Birmingham: Thank you Collette and bonjour [speaks French] I won’t subject you to my French. They say that somebody who can speak three languages is trilingual and somebody who can speak two languages is bilingual, unfortunately today you have standing before you somebody who can only…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech to Drama Australia’s National Symposium 30 September 2016 Simon Birmingham: Thank you. Thank you John for that welcome and ladies and gentlemen, thank you for choosing to have your symposium on a Friday afternoon in my home city of Adelaide … [laughter] … it makes for a wonderful opportunity for me to…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech at ACEL 2016 Conference 28 September 2016 Well, thank you ladies and gentlemen for that welcome and thank you for the introduction and perhaps most importantly, thank you very much to the conference organisers for facilitating the changing time in schedule for me to be able to be here to speak with…
Thank you very much Mr Rijken for that welcome. Ladies and gentlemen, it is an absolute delight to be with you here today. I think perhaps it’s the most satisfying in some ways – certainly perhaps the most uplifting aspect of my job, in day to day sense as the Federal Minister for Education and…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech at construction commencement for Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine facility at James Cook University 6 September 2016 Thank you very much Leanne Harvey the acting chief executive officer of the Australian Research Council for your welcome and ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for coming along today for this very…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech at the announcement of the 2017 New Colombo Plan recipients 31 August 2016 Simon Birmingham: Well, thank you very much Emma for that welcome and for your role in MCing today and providing a real demonstration to all those assembled here of the calibre and quality of New Colombo Plan- Plan participants,…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Address at St Gabriel’s School – Opening of the Father Leon Czechowicz Learning Centre 26 August 2016 Simon Birmingham: [Inaudible] … local federal MP, and Attorney-General John Rau, local state MP, Mayor Gary Johanson, other leaders of the church and local community, staff, parents, boys and girls. It is a real delight to…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Opening address to the ACPET National Conference 2016 25 August 2016 Simon Birmingham: Thanks very much, Mel, for that welcome and I acknowledge you as the Chair of ACPET and previous chairs of ACPET who are gathered here today, your international guests; it’s always a delight to have international visitors attending these conferences…