E&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Same sex marriage;tertiary subsidies for domestic New Zealand students; academic freedoms; superannuation 05/09/2017 12:49PM Samantha Maiden: And joining us now live is the Education Minister Simon Birmingham to discuss that story that we were talking about in relation to New Zealand and also the same-sex marriage debate as well. Let’s start with…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on Sky News, AM Agenda with Kieran Gilbert Topics: Newspoll, energy security, citizenship 04/09/2017 07:05AM Kieran Gilbert: Minister, thanks so you much for your time, you must be encouraged by some of the numbers in this Newspoll? Simon Birmingham: Look, Kieran, the Government, wherever the polls go, keeps on with the job…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Newspoll, energy security, citizenship 04/09/2017 07:05AM Kieran Gilbert: Minister, thanks so you much for your time, you must be encouraged by some of the numbers in this Newspoll? Simon Birmingham: Look, Kieran, the Government, wherever the polls go, keeps on with the job as people would expect and over the last couple…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Marriage equality survey and campaigns; Higher education reform; Tony Abbott’s travel 30/08/2017 06:05PM Patricia Karvelas: While controversy rages about the campaigning around the same sex marriage survey, a leading constitutional expert doubts whether it will go ahead at all. The survey’s currently subject to a challenge in the High Court which will…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Reforms to higher education 30/08/2017 10:25AM Simon Birmingham: Thanks very much for coming along today. What I’ve sought to do today is to outline once again the pace and the rationale for why it is we need to see some changes in relation to higher education policy in Australia, changes that have…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio Adelaide with David Bevan and Ali Clarke Topics: Tertiary Education; Student Debt; Enterprise Agreements 30/08/2017 08:35AM David Bevan: Well, every Wednesday we bring three federal MPs from South Australia – they have to be South Australian through and through – to discuss the big national issues. We have in…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Dodgy child care operators in Victoria, Labor’s taxes 24/08/2017 08:48AM Rafael Epstein: So we’ve had a number of calls this week from both child care operators and parents who use those small family day care child care operators saying the money’s stopped. The Federal Government is cracking down on smaller child care…
DetailsTRANSCRIPT E&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: QLD Government’s failure to monitor child care standards, child care reforms 23/08/2017 04:37PM Ben Davis: Thanks for your company this afternoon. I’ve been asking you about making child care more affordable and your stories. Even if you don’t have kids or grandkids in child care, we’ve still got skin in the…
DetailsTRANSCRIPT E&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: SA Government’s failure to monitor child care standards, child care reforms 23/07/2017 12:12PM Alan Hickey: But first to our child care centres. And, of course, they are becoming an increasingly important part of our lives, aren’t they? And we learned today that one in five South Australian child care centres have…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Cracking down on dodgy child care providers 23/08/2017 12:50PM Warren Moore: In the last financial year, taxpayers forked out $7.5 billion to subsidise the child care system, yet we’re hearing today that a large number of them have been ripping off the system by claiming to care for phantom children. How dodgy…
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