E&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech at construction commencement for Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine facility at James Cook University 6 September 2016 Thank you very much Leanne Harvey the acting chief executive officer of the Australian Research Council for your welcome and ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for coming along today for this very…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech at the announcement of the 2017 New Colombo Plan recipients 31 August 2016 Simon Birmingham: Well, thank you very much Emma for that welcome and for your role in MCing today and providing a real demonstration to all those assembled here of the calibre and quality of New Colombo Plan- Plan participants,…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Address at St Gabriel’s School – Opening of the Father Leon Czechowicz Learning Centre 26 August 2016 Simon Birmingham: [Inaudible] … local federal MP, and Attorney-General John Rau, local state MP, Mayor Gary Johanson, other leaders of the church and local community, staff, parents, boys and girls. It is a real delight to…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Opening address to the ACPET National Conference 2016 25 August 2016 Simon Birmingham: Thanks very much, Mel, for that welcome and I acknowledge you as the Chair of ACPET and previous chairs of ACPET who are gathered here today, your international guests; it’s always a delight to have international visitors attending these conferences…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT 12/08/2016 Simon Birmingham: Thanks Ian for that introduction. Always a pleasure when somebody goes back and looks at your maiden speech especially when it’s a speech given almost 10 years ago and with a tiny element of trepidation when you’re sitting in the audience and somebody says they’re about to quote from it.…
DetailsI would like to acknowledge: • Elder Songwoman Maroochy for the Welcome to Country and pay my respects to all of Australia’s Indigenous people and in particular the Turrbal nation, the traditional owners of the land on which the Conference is being held. • Professor Geoff Masters AO, Chief Executive Officer, ACER • Distinguished international…
DetailsSIMON 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…
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