28 November 2024 Senator BIRMINGHAM (South Australia—Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) (16:01): ‘This too shall pass’—it’s an ancient Persian proverb, the lesson being that, through times of despair or elation, neither shall last forever. It is a keeper of perspective that I’ve found useful through the highs and lows of political travails. Now, it…
DetailsWednesday 27 November 2024 Main Committee Room – Parliament House 8:30AM AEDT It is a real honour and pleasure to be back with you again this year. Can I say how much you raise us up when we gather here at this now annual event. We find in that culture of Pacific love and…
DetailsAnna Henderson: Just on some of the detail around the approach of the Coalition to the conflict in the Middle East. There is an active discussion at the moment within the Netanyahu government about moves to annexe parts of the West Bank. Would the Coalition support such a move by Israel on that front? And…
Details[Check against delivery] 82 years ago today the battle of Guadalcanal raged. The strategic significance of the Pacific wasn’t a theory, but a bloody reality. In just 3 days 22 ships were sunk. 100 aircraft downed. 3,600 lives lost. The sacrifice of conflict writ large. Yet, far from futile. …
DetailsAIIA National Conference 2024 – Facing Fragmentation The Realm, Canberra ACT Monday 11th, November 2024 [Greetings omitted] An important day, Remembrance Day, a critical day in our nation as it is in so many around the world. As today we reflect 106 years ago upon the armistice and the conclusion of World War One.…
DetailsQuestion: Melissa Conley Tyler from the Asia Pacific Development, Diplomacy and Defence Dialogue. So, Shadow Minister, you talked about the need to prevent the Global South being led in directions that I think are against Australia’s interests. I’m interested in your view of Australia’s development program and the way that it engages with the developing…
DetailsThank you very much for the invitation to be with you all today and the opportunity to be here. I have come back from a week in Canberra just this morning. Literally straight from the airport to this event. It’s been a big week, as was acknowledged and a big week in Senate estimates for…
DetailsIt was mid-February 2020. Covid was spreading. The world was closing borders. Indeed, Australia had already closed our borders to China. Yet more than 100 of Australia’s leaders of business and industry joined me, as the then trade minister, in traveling to India, for the first Australia India Business Exchange. From the resources…
DetailsSenate Chamber, Parliament House Tuesday, 8th October 2024 At 6:29 a.m. on the 7th of October 2023, the music stopped at the Nova Festival in Re’im. 12 months ago yesterday, those festival goers, young people dancing, enjoying a weekend out, living the life that so many young Australians do at similar festivals, stopped and…
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…
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