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4BC – Drive with Scott Emerson

Interview TranscriptsBy Senator Simon Birmingham20 January, 2022

Topics: Labour force figures; Rapid antigen tests;    20/01/2022 04:30PM AEST   Scott Emerson: Increased by 65,000, that’s a monthly change of 0.5 per cent. Now, while the underemployment rate fell 1.9 per cent to 6.6 per cent, the participation rate remains constant at 66.1 per cent. Now the bottom line here is there’s a sensational…

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Sky News Live – First Edition with Peter Stefanovic

Interview TranscriptsBy Senator Simon Birmingham20 January, 2022

Topics: Rapid antigen tests; Student and working holiday maker visa holders;   Peter Stefanovic: On that point, let’s go to the Finance Minister live from Adelaide, Simon Birmingham joins us live. Minister, good to see you. Thanks for your time this morning. Now National Cabinet today. Prime Minister wants states to abandon those daily rapid tests…

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ABC – News Breakfast with Madeleine Morris

Interview TranscriptsBy Senator Simon Birmingham20 January, 2022

Topics: Return to school; student and working holiday maker visa holders; Living with COVID;  20/01/2022 7:32AM AEST   Madeleine Morris: Let’s go back to our top story national cabinet meeting today, Finance Minister Simon Birmingham joins us now from Adelaide. Thanks so much for your time, Senator Birmingham.   Simon Birmingham: Good morning, Madeleine. Good…

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CH 7 – Sunrise with David Koch

Interview TranscriptsBy Senator Simon Birmingham20 January, 2022

Topics: Booster vaccines; COVID-19 drugs; George Christensen; 20/01/2022 7:15AM AEST David Koch: The interval for COVID booster shots is being brought forward to three months in an urgent move to protect parents and dampen another explosion in cases when schools go back next week. It comes as the federal government admits it was blindsided by…

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Doorstop – Adelaide Airport, SA

Interview TranscriptsBy Senator Simon Birmingham19 January, 2022

Topics: Dismantling and moving the Vickers Vimy; South Australian rapid antigen test deliveries; Defence assistance in hospitals; George Christensen remarks 19/01/2022 10:05AM AEST   EO&E…   Brenton Cox: Thanks very much. My name is Brenton Cox, I’m the managing director of Adelaide Airport. Thanks very much to everyone for coming here to mark Vimy’s next…

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Advances to the Finance Minister in the week ending Friday, 14 January 2022

Media ReleasesBy Senator Simon Birmingham14 January, 2022

Today I approved a determination to release $920 million in funding to the National Recovery and Resilience Agency (NRRA), using the Advance to the Finance Minister (the AFM). The determination provides funding to the NRRA to support a decision by the Australian Government to extend the availability of the Pandemic Leave Disaster Payment (PLDP) until…

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ABC – News Breakfast

Interview TranscriptsBy Senator Simon Birmingham14 January, 2022

Topics: Workforce shortages; Rapid antigen tests; Inflation; Wages; 14/01/2022 8:05AM AEST   Iskhandar Razak: Business groups are calling for home testing kits to be made more widely available. They also want the exemptions to apply to all workers. But unions have called an emergency meeting for Monday amid concerns the policy will lead to more…

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ABC – RN Breakfast with Hamish Macdonald

Interview TranscriptsBy Senator Simon Birmingham14 January, 2022

Topics: Workforce shortages; Rapid antigen tests; Inflation; Wages; 14/01/2022 7:35AM AEST   Hamish Macdonald:  The Morrison Government has announced that the relaxation of isolation rules will be extended further to teachers, childcare workers and other critical industries in an effort to contain the economic impact of the Omicron wave. It comes amid warnings today that…

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CH 9 – The Today Show

Interview TranscriptsBy Senator Simon Birmingham14 January, 2022

Topics: Novak Djokovic; Rapid antigen tests; Maryborough floods; Vaccination rates; 14/01/2022 7:10AM AEST   Sarah Abo: Well, supermarket purchase limits are back, rapid antigen tests are near impossible to find, and our aged care sector has entered crisis mode again. You’d be forgiven for thinking our government hasn’t had the time to prepare for living…

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CH 9 – Weekend Today

Interview TranscriptsBy Senator Simon Birmingham9 January, 2022

Topics: Restrictions; COVID response; Vaccination; Novak Djokovic; 09/01/2022 09:40AM AEST Jayne Azzopardi:  This is not exactly what we thought living with COVID would look like. Richard Wilkins: A happy new year, one and all. So where do we go from here and how did we get here in the first place? Let’s discuss the week plus with…

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