E&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…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Higher education funding 30 August 2017 Question: Minister, Joanna Mather from the Financial Review. The university sector has a very strong union and we’ve seen a fairly dramatic development in terms of Murdoch’s enterprise agreement being axed. Tell me, what barrier has industrial relations been to universities becoming more efficient as I…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Higher education funding 30/08/2017 Michael Stutchbury: … introduce the Minister for Education and Training. So it’s with great pleasure that I do introduce Simon Birmingham, the Minister for Education and Training. Since 2015, the first Education Minister in the first Turnbull Ministry. The minister, of course, is a Master of Business Administration…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech at Teach for Australia event, Parliament House 15/08/2017 Simon Birmingham: Well thanks, thanks very much, Peter, for that kiss of death. All those interviews with you that I’ve survived so far over the years, and now of course just in innocuous circumstances of introducing me in your speech you go…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Address to Ai Group’s Industry Meets Canberra event 09/08/2017 03:05PM Simon Birmingham: Thanks very much, Innes, for that welcome. It’s wonderful to be with you today, to be here at the AI Group discussions, and firstly, to really pay tribute to AI Group for its long-term, policy involvement, engagement, leadership in relation to…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech to open Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre 02/08/2017 3:20PM Simon Birmingham: Vice-chancellor, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, all – thank you very much for the opportunity to join you here today for the opening of this incredible facility. Lynn, thank you very much for your welcome to country, for your lovely gift.…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Address to Catholic Education Western Australia Conference 31/07/2017 2:00PM Simon Birmingham: Thanks, thanks very much Jolie for that introduction, and Tim, thank you. It is a wonderful opportunity to be able to seize the moment, the chance, to have this moment, to be able to come and address all of you today, to…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Conference – CEWA 31 July 2017 Moderator: When we picked up The Australian paper today, front page there was an article about the fractured relationship between the Government and Catholic parents and Catholic educators. Tim Dodd wrote in the Financial Review this morning an article about explaining the $1.1 billion funding shortfall to…
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