This week the risk of the Albanese Labor Government doing destructive deals with the Greens is enormous. Many of Anthony Albanese’s big spending bills are stalled, making the government even more desperate as it tries to clear the decks for a possible early election. Labor should rule out an avalanche of billion-dollar, economy…
DetailsParliament House Thursday, 12th September 2024 Canberra, ACT As always when I’m in Canberra, I called my kids last night. Our youngest, just turned 12, asked what I would be doing over the next day. I mentioned that I would be speaking to an important group about Australia’s relations with China. She said, “will…
DetailsAs always when I’m in Canberra, I called my kids last night. Our youngest, just turned 12, asked what I would be doing over the next day. I mentioned that I would be speaking to an important group about Australia’s relations with China. She said, “will you be talking about how we like China, dislike…
DetailsTopics: Social media age limits; RBA-Chalmers; 07:45AM AEST 10 September 2024 Pete Stefanovic: Anthony Albanese will announce social media restrictions this morning that aims to stop kids from accessing social media because of the scourge of online bullying. Joining us live now is the Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Birmingham, for his thoughts on…
DetailsTopics: Gaza visas; RBA-Chalmers; Ukraine 0920AM AEST 6 September 2024 Laura Jayes: Joining me now is the Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Birmingham, live from Adelaide. Good to see you. First of all, just on that individual’s case, trying to bring his elderly mother from Gaza. He’s taken a bit of a shot at…
DetailsWednesday, 4 September 2024 85 years ago today, England and France declared war against Germany. What was to follow was both calamitous and fortunate; tragic yet heroic. Freedom loving people owe everything to this generation of leaders and lifters, who carried the day in World War II against oppression and aggression. Their victory,…
DetailsTopics: Ukraine; PIF, EPA 04:20PM AEST 2 September 2024 Greg Jennett: We want to go to London now, Shadow Foreign Minister, Simon Birmingham’s there for talks with the UK Government after visits to Ukraine and other Eastern European nations in recent days. Simon Birmingham joins us live from a street somewhere, I guess, downtown,…
DetailsTopics: Ukraine; refugee policy 07:30AM AEST 2 September 2024 Steve Cannane: Ukraine’s Defence Minister, Rustem Umerov, has been in Washington DC, lobbying the Biden administration to drop restrictions that prevent the country from using long range weapons to strike deeper into Russian territory. And that argument dominated proceedings at the Globesec talks in Prague…
DetailsJoint media release: Senator Claire Chandler, Shadow Assistance Minister for Foreign Affairs 31 August 2024 It has been two years since the United Nations Human Rights Office published its report into disturbing human rights concerns in Xinjiang. The report detailed alarming findings of human rights violations in the Xinjiang region of the People’s Republic…
DetailsTopics: Re-opening Kyiv Embassy. 8.20PM AEST 29 August 2024 Sharri Markson: Now the Coalition has vowed to safely re-open Australia’s embassy in Ukraine if they win the next election saying that Labor’s stubborn refusal to do so has undermined our reputation as a reliable international ally. Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022,…
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