Remarks at the Australia-UK Chamber Breakfast, London 21 January 2019 Thank you very much Elizabeth. Ladies and gentleman good morning, it is wonderful to be here with you all. Can I commence by acknowledging my dear friend, former parliamentary and cabinet colleague, and Australia’s High Commissioner in London, George Brandis. Thank you…
DetailsThank you very much, the Australian Financial Review, for your engagement and support and the opportunity to provide the opening address here at the AFR India Business Summit. Can I begin by paying my respects to the traditional custodians of the Sydney region, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and acknowledge all of…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Address to the ISCA and AHISA Education Forum 20/08/2018 4:30PM Simon Birmingham: Thanks so very much for the chance to be here with you all today. It’s a thrill to back here again at this conference having had the pleasure of speaking with you all three years ago indeed; and to…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Remarks at Curtin University announce new Training Centre for Transforming Maintenance through Data Science 02/08/2018 11:00am Simon Birmingham: Thank you very much, Sue, and certainly it’s a good time to be inside based on the weather that we can hear pounding down on the roof and outside. It’s certainly a wonderful day to…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Address at the Conference of the Australian Science Teachers Association (CONASTA) 09/07/2018 09:30am Simon Birmingham: Thanks so much, Geoff [Quinton], for that welcome and I acknowledge you as the President of ASTA. Professor Trevor Hambley, Dean of Science at the University of Sydney. ASTA CEO, Vic Dobos. Margaret Shepherd, President of the…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Remarks at USC Petrie Campus start of construction ceremony 04/07/2018 11:00AM Simon Birmingham: Thank you. Thank you so much, Heather. Thank you for the warm welcome as the interloper from outside of Queensland today. Can I also acknowledge the Kabi Kabi people and all of Australia’s Indigenous peoples? Can I recognise…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Remarks at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Future Leaders Program event 27/06/2018 12:30PM Simon Birmingham: One of the- not one of, the best element of my job as Minister for Education and Training certainly isn’t running out of events like this, to get to Senate divisions in this crazy building. It’s the…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech and Q&A at the American Chamber of Commerce South Australia Forum 23/06/2018 1:45PM Simon Birmingham: It’s a thrill to be here. My apologies if I’ve kept anybody waiting. Today I’ve had the thrills, spills and joys just next door at the convention centre of the COAG Education Council, which is…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Q&A at the Positive Schools Conference, Adelaide 08/06/2018 12.00PM Michael Carr-Gregg: Thank you very much, Tracy(*), and Senator, thank you so much for your time. Simon Birmingham: Thanks Michael. Michael Carr-Gregg: It is in fact the 10th anniversary of the Positive Schools conferences, and as a sort of marker of…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech to 2018 EduTech Conference, Sydney 08/06/2018 17:40pm Simon Birmingham: Well, thanks very much for that introduction and, well it’s a delight to be here. Quite an act to follow, indeed. I often- there’s some gymnastics involved in politics from time to time. Usually more of the verbal nature. And I certainly…
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