E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop Interview, Canberra Topics: University completion rates and graduate outcome data; Same-sex marriage; Sam Dastyari 29/11/2017 7:30AM Simon Birmingham: The Turnbull Government’s higher education reform, in particular our push to have universities have performance payments applied to 7.5 per cent of their student funding. As this new data shows that numbers of…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC News radio with Fiona Ellis-Jones Topics: University completion rates and graduate outcome data; Same-sex marriage 29/11/2017 07:23 AM Fiona Ellis-Jones: The Federal Government has released new data showing that students are dropping out of university in record numbers. The figures show two-thirds of university students are failing to complete…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on Sky News AM Agenda with Kieran Gilbert Topics: Queensland state election; Same-sex marriage; Bennelong by-election. 27/11/2017 08:33AM Kieran Gilbert: I spoke to the Education Minister Simon Birmingham and began by suggesting to him that given the size of the swing against the LNP that the PM will cop some of the…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio Adelaide with Ali Clarke Topics: Federal school funding for South Australia 24/11/2017 07:11AM Ali Clarke: Look, I don’t know if you’ve heard this little ditty, maybe your child has brought it home. Certainly ours did through their pre-school and early primary school years and it goes something like this:…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop interview, Adelaide Topics: National Energy Guarantee; Citizenship of Parliamentarians 22/11/2017 2:15PM Simon Birmingham: The National Energy Guarantee that the Turnbull Government released early this year was of course developed and adopted on the recommendation of the independent Energy Security Board. It was recommended because it is the ideal way for us to…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio Adelaide, Breakfast with Ali Clarke Topics: Funding for South Australian schools; Parliamentary sitting dates; National Energy Guarantee. 22/11/2017 08:35AM Ali Clarke: Good morning to Simon Birmingham, the South Australian Liberal Senator and Minister for Education. How are you? Simon Birmingham: Good morning, Ali, good to be with you. Ali…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio Adelaide, Breakfast with Ali Clarke and David Bevan Topics: Same-sex marriage; Coal-fired power 15/11/2017 09:05AM David Bevan: A big ABC radio Adelaide welcome to Simon Birmingham, Liberal Senator for South Australia and Education Minister on the phone line, good morning Simon Birmingham. Simon Birmingham: Good morning, top of the…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on Sky News Live with Ashleigh Gillon Topics: Citizenship of Parliamentarians; Same-sex marriage; Latest Newspoll 14/11/17 10:13am Ashleigh Gillon: Let’s take you back live to Canberra now, joining us from there is the Education Minister, Simon Birmingham. Minister, appreciate your time. We’ll get to same-sex marriage in a moment. First though, your…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio National Drive with Patricia Karvelas Topics: Citizenship of Parliamentarians; Same-sex marriage 13/11/17 06:10PM Patricia Karvelas: Simon Birmingham, Minister for Education, welcome back to RN Drive Simon Birmingham: G’day Patricia, nice to be with you. Patricia Karvelas: So how many MPs are you preparing to potentially lose, have you clearly…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop interview, Canberra Topics: Latest Newspoll; Citizenship of Parliamentarians 13/11/2017 7:30AM Journalist: Happy with the results of the Newspoll? Simon Birmingham: Well the Turnbull Government is determined that despite the fact that the commentary around citizenship sucks much of the oxygen out of the news coverage at present, that we’re going to keep…
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