SIMON BIRMINGHAM: …Australia’s Chief Scientist and the Victorian of the Year, welcome to South Australia, Alan, and thank you for the outstanding work you are doing as our chief scientist and in particular to the members of the research infrastructure working group, the expert working group who are here with you today, thank you to…
DetailsGood morning ladies and gentlemen and yes, I am the Minister. Thank you Ross for that warm welcome, thank you for recalling my pre-politics life working in Australia’s wine industry and gathered here as I am at the National Catholic Education conference I thought I might start by acknowledging not just all of those many…
DetailsThank you so much Martin for that thoughtful and generous welcome. Stephen, thank you for having me along again this year, indeed for breaking me in to be the Minister for Education at last years dinner. It was a very good trial run and I’m please that it obviously went well enough that I was…
DetailsSIMON BIRMINGHAM: Can I start by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet and all of Australia’s indigenous people and as Australia’s Education Minister I particularly acknowledge that we continue to learn much more about the traditional knowledge of our indigenous people and learn much from it and to of course build…
DetailsSIMON BIRMINGHAM: Thank you, thank you so much Mrs Mount, parents, grandparents, friends, community members, teachers, early learning educators, boys and girls, it is a real pleasure for me to be here today to share in the opening of this art exhibition and to do so wearing my official cap though of course here in a…
DetailsSIMON BIRMINGHAM: Thanks Jamie and thanks everyone for coming along today. Jamie gave me a call a couple of weeks ago and said “there is a bit of interest in some of my independent schools about education policy and where the government is going, would you be able to come and do a round table, chat…
DetailsSIMON BIRMINGHAM: St Pat’s school and technical college, thank you very much for having us here today, it is a real delight to see this facility and this enterprise. Senator David Fawcett has, I think, been agitating me to come up and visit for about eighteen months now. So, I am pleased that we’ve finally reached…
DetailsSIMON BIRMINGHAM: It is a real pleasure to be able to be with you all for this celebration of the new facilities within your school which, of course, provides a real opportunity to celebrate all that enlivens your school and all that your school achieves and gives to you as students who pass through here and…
DetailsSimon Birmingham: Thank you for that welcome and getting me up here on stage nice and promptly and quickly upon my arrival. To you, as chair of the PIEFA board, to Ben Stockwin, the CEO, to the guests, particularly in the international guest speakers, board members, delegates, ladies and gentlemen – it’s a delight to be…
DetailsSimon Birmingham: Thank you for your welcome, to College Chair Tim Foster, Pastor Will, to captains, college captains Harry and Courtney, members of the SRC, students who made us feel so welcome upon my arrival today. It’s a pleasure for me to be here, to be here with my friend and Federal Parliamentary colleague Keith…
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