Topic(s): Jenkins Report; Grace Tame & Brittany Higgins National Press Club speech; David Marchese: Now with me is now is someone who was at the National Press Club today, Senator Simon Birmingham is the Finance Minister and his departments responsible for people working in parliament. Minister, welcome back to Hack. Simon Birmingham: Hello, Dave, it’s…
Topic(s): Budget position improvement; Business support; Richard Colbeck; Michael Rowland: Latest data suggests strong jobs growth is improving Australia’s budget position after two years of heavy pandemic spending. For more the Finance Minister, Simon Birmingham, joins us now from Western Sydney. Minister, good morning. Simon Birmingham: Good morning, Michael. Great to be with you. Michael…
Topics: Omicron; MYEFO; Employment outlook; Vaccination; Budget recovery; 16/12/2021 09:42AM AEST Steve Price: The Mid-Year Economic Statement will be delivered by the Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. At some stage, I think around lunchtime, his right hand man is Simon Birmingham, the finance minister who joins us. Thanks for your time again, Minister. Simon Birmingham:…
The Hon Andrew Gee MP Minister for Veterans’ Affairs Minister for Defence Personnel The Hon Melissa Price MP Minister for Defence Industry Member for Durack Date: Thursday, 7 October 2021 The Morrison-Joyce Government has delivered on its promise to find a solution to the provision of a long-term, sustainable water supply to the residents of…
Transcript, E&OE Topics: International air freight; trading relationship with China. 23 April 2020 Linda Mottram: Well, a tiny glimmer of economic hope today: we are still selling quite a lot of goods around the world. After a significant trade slump in February, Australia’s exports made a solid recovery in March — an $8 billion dollar…
Transcript, E&OE Topics: seafood industry 01 April 2020 Leon Byner: Now, this is a good news story because as you know South Australia is a wonderful food producer. As a country, as you would know, we produce enough food for 75 million people which means that we can feed ourselves first – we should –…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop interview, Adelaide Topics: Results of the 2017 graduate outcomes survey; Investment in the pacific region; Welfare payments; Skilling Australians Fund 12/01/2018 11:30AM Simon Birmingham: Thanks very much for coming today. The Government’s today released the 2017 Graduate Outcome Survey data, which is a reminder, as many young Australians are contemplating their university…
Public submissions have opened to an independent review into the way socio-economic status (SES) scores are calculated and used to ensure funding for Australian schools is based on need. Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said the public submission process for the National School Resourcing Board review of the SES methodology will be open…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop interview, Adelaide Topics: NAPLAN and Civics/Citizenship test results 13/12/2017 10:42AM Simon Birmingham: Thanks very much for coming. Today, we release two sets of NAPLAN data: one looking at the core NAPLAN testing around reading, writing, literacy, numeracy skills, and the other a sample test around citizenship and, indeed, civics. Across the core…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on FIVEaa with Leon Byner Topics: TAFE SA crisis 07/12/2017 09:11AM Leon Byner: As you know, the TAFE disaster is getting more intriguing as every day progresses. Our interest really is about the students. Now, there’s a whole lot of things which we’ll unpack for you shortly. Now, you remember that the…