E&OE TRANSCRIPT Address to the English Australia Annual ELICOS Conference, Adelaide 22/09/2017 8:50AM Simon Birmingham: Thank you very much Mark for that welcome. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you. It’s wonderful to be here at your conference, for the opening of your conference. Particularly wonderful though to hear that you were all here last night in…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Opening of new facilities at the Suneden Specialist School, Adelaide 21/09/2017 2.00PM Simon Birmingham: Thank you Jordan and Joseph for the welcome. It is a thrill to be able to be here with you today for the opening – official opening – of these new facilities that those of you here at the…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Launch of the Innovative Research Universities, National Innovation Case Study Collection Flinders University, Adelaide 21/09/2017 10:00am Simon Birmingham: Thanks very much Conor, Claire, and most importantly Jessica, and indeed interstate visitors, ladies and gentlemen. I’m thrilled to be back here at this impressive Tonsley campus of the Flinders University to see once again…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Address to the Public Forum Day of the International Science of Learning Conference 20/09/2017 12.00pm Thanks so very much, Peter, for your warm welcome. It’s always wonderful to see you, Peter. Of course, back in our wine industry days people might think that we used to see each other frequently over a bottle…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT 14/09/2017 9:40AM Thank you so much for your welcome, for those introductory remarks that were a very powerful call for continued action and continued implementation. Aunty Violet, if you’re still here, thank you for your welcome to country and acknowledgement of country. I too acknowledge the Ngambri and Ngunnawal people of the Canberra…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Address – Raising Children Network 10 year anniversary breakfast 13/09/2019 7.30am Simon Birmingham: Thank you very much Julie for that welcome. To you, Frank, the incredible depth of Parliamentary colleagues from, certainly, I can see across both the Government and Opposition, any minor party representatives who are here. Thank you all for joining…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech – Address to the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care, Canberra 12/09/2017 Simon Birmingham: Ladies and gentlemen, it’s my pleasure to be with you this morning and can I begin by thanking Auntie Matilda for her welcome to Ngambri and Ngunawal country, and I give due respect to elders past…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Centres of excellence, Australian Research Council 07/09/2017 Simon Birmingham: Thanks so very much Sue for your welcome. It says something about the wonders of this building that those of us who inhabit it can of course happily work through the ringing of the bells and the noise around it, but I do…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Education Reform 04/09/2017 Simon Birmingham: Thank you very much Martin. Happily they are the green bells, and even more happily apparently I have a pair, briefly, to be able to with you here tonight, so even through red ones I will be staying put. Can I too acknowledge the Indigenous owners of…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Gonski education funding; reforms to tertiary education 01/09/2017 Simon Birmingham: Thank you for your welcome to country. As some of you would’ve heard me say before, I’m acknowledging the Kaurna people here in the Adelaide plains and all of Australia’s Indigenous people, but also acknowledge [indistinct] education in particular continue to learn…
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