Senator the Hon. Simon Birmingham Minister for Finance Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment Leader of the Government in the Senate Senator for South Australia Senator the Hon. Michaelia Cash Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate Senator for Western Australia Monday, 7 December 2020 The…
DetailsTopics: Industrial relations bill; Foreign relations bill; Australia-China trade relations 07/12/2020 07:47AM Peter Stefanovic: Well, casual workers earning greater rights to permanent employment will be among proposed changes when the Government unveils its industrial relations bill this week. Joining me live now from Canberra is Simon Birmingham, Minister for Finance, Trade and Tourism. Minister,…
DetailsTopics: Returning Australians from overseas, IR law reform, Foreign Relations Bill, 2030 emissions targets. 12/7/2020 07:36AM Fran Kelly: Simon Birmingham is the Minister for Trade and Finance and Leader of the Government in the Senate. Simon Birmingham, welcome back to Breakfast. Simon Birmingham: Good morning, Fran. Thanks for the opportunity. Fran Kelly: …
DetailsTopics: Breach at Sydney Airport; returning Australians; quarantine rules 07/12/2020 07:20AM Samantha Armytage: Minister, good morning to you. Now, it was New South Wales police officers who incorrectly allowed the travellers to get on a domestic flight to Melbourne. They have put up their hand, these police officers, and said they did the…
DetailsTopics: Breach of quarantine rules in Sydney; Foreign Relations Bill; Lachlan Murdoch’s Christmas party. 7/12/20 07:13AM Michael Rowland: Speaking of Christmas, it is the final parliamentary sitting week of the year in Canberra and there is a lot going on. Let’s bring in the Finance and Trade Minister Simon Birmingham. Minister, good morning to…
DetailsTopics: 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…
DetailsSENATOR THE HON SIMON BIRMINGHAM Minister for Finance Leader of the Government in the Senate SENATOR THE HON MICHAELIA CASH Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate Monday, 7 December 2020 New procurement rules to back Aussie small businesses The Morrison Government is…
DetailsTopics: 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…
Details4 December 2020 Tourism Australia has today kicked-off a new campaign encouraging Australians to support our tourism industry and jobs this festive season by gifting a holiday or a travel experience. With the majority of state borders now open, this latest marketing push from Tourism Australia urges those who are in a positon…
DetailsTopics: 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…
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