Introduction Thank you Michael Stutchbury, the Editor-in-chief of the Financial Review and to the Fin for hosting this event. I’m so sorry I’m not there with you all in person this morning but I’m thrilled to be joining you. Particularly for CFO Live. CFOs the quiet achievers in successful business organisation right around the…
DetailsThank you very much, James, and firstly to Peter Tonkin, thank you to you and to your mum Prue and to your siblings, your family, for having shared your Dad with our grateful state. But of course, also for providing this outstanding platform for 20 years now, enabling the Young Liberals to bring together fellow Liberals and…
DetailsThank you very much to the Australia-Israel Chamber for the invitation to be here today and the opportunity to join you all. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s wonderful to have this chance, and always just at present, when we are able to gather like this, here we are seated together. You think about the circumstances we…
Details2020 Annual Investment Statement 11 December 2020 Acknowledgements Well thank you very much Frances for those kind words of introduction. I may have driven the Department and the Agencies during my time in this portfolio – hopefully not driven you too crazy in that time. Can I thank you for all…
DetailsSpeech Minerals Council of Australia Webcast Address 10 November 2020 Thank you Tania [Minerals Council CEO] for that introduction. I am very glad to be able to take part in this webcast today, at a complex time for Australia’s international engagement and indeed a time of great complexity right across the world. Scheduling this event…
DetailsSpeech 30 July 2020 It’s good to be with you for the Australian Grains Industry Conference 2020. If there’s one group of people I have spent time with in 2020, it’s grains. Introduction – coronavirus a health and economic challenge This one in a hundred years pandemic is playing havoc with lives and…
DetailsSpeech US-Australia relationship 21 July 2020 Last Friday our Prime Minister announced a range of new incentives to encourage more investment in screen production in Australia, to get more film attractions, more series developed and produced here in Australia. We hope and trust that much of that may come through partnership with the…
DetailsSpeech Location National Press Club, Canberra 17 June 2020 It is no exaggeration to say that every Australian has been affected by COVID-19 –some tragically more so than others. The OECD tells us that we are in the midst of the biggest global downturn since the Great Depression. We have weathered the storm…
DetailsSpeech, check against delivery Topics: ABAC and APEC; Engagement with Asia Pacific Region Location Sydney 12 February 2020 Andrew Parker: Our speaker this evening, the Honourable Simon Birmingham who is our Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment. I’d also just like — before we start — to acknowledge Minister Birmingham has had to…
DetailsCheck against delivery Parliament House, Canberra 04 February 2020 Ron Selth, Dick Lang and Clayton Lang—three South Australians, contributors to their community and much loved by their families—tragically lost their lives in this year’s fire season. Ron Selth, a 69-year-old engineer and a resident of Charlton in the Adelaide Hills, lost his life…
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