E&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech at launch of Leading Learning 4 All 28/02/2017 09:45AM Simon Birmingham: Thank you very much, Frank, for that welcome and the opportunity to be with you all this morning, albeit briefly. I’ll apologise in advance that I won’t be with you for the playing and tour and learning on the notebooks in…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech at opening of Adelaide of University Health and Medical Sciences Building 24/02/2017 11:15AM Simon Birmingham: Thank you so much, Chancellor Kevin Scarce, ladies and gentlemen. Can I too acknowledge the Kaurna people, and particularly of course Jack and Vincent for that wonderful welcome to country, and as Australia’s Education Minister, acknowledge that…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech at Innovation Award grants announcement for type 1 diabetes 15/02/2017 11:45AM Simon Birmingham: Thanks so much, Mike, for that welcome. We've got a little prop down here to assist Declan. I could stand on it and pretend that I'm like some sort of basketballer, but I'll remain at normal height and we'll…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech to the Universities Australia and CASE Philanthropy Capacity Building Symposium 07/12/2016 09:30AM Simon Birmingham: Thank you, Glyn. It’s a wonderful gathering in the round here today; a fabulous theatre. So, thank you for the opportunity to come along and to you, to other vice-chancellors present; Scott, Margaret, Jane – I’m sure there…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech to the Australia India Leadership Dialogue 05/12/2016 07:30 PM Simon Birmingham: … colleagues, the Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister Senator James McGrath, the Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen, who I am [indistinct] to hearing from a little later this evening, the Member for Canberra Gai Brodtmann, former parliamentary colleague and esteemed former…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Address to the 2016 National History Challenge 29/11/2016 11:35AM Simon Birmingham: Thank you very much, Liz. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for the opportunity to be here today and I recognise you as the chair of the National History Challenge, Paul Foley, the president, the Honourable Margaret Reid, former esteemed senator…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech to the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education forum 28/11/2016 11:00AM Simon Birmingham: Thanks [indistinct]. Thank you very much. I want to thank you all for the chance to be with you here at the National Press Club today. It’s nice to be at the National Press Club in friendlier…
DetailsThanks very much Michael for that welcome and to you and the team at the Australian Financial Review. Thank you for the discipline and interest you apply and bring to higher education policy and particularly the way we do so through of course the conduct of this summit, and the engagement in opportunities for informed…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech at CTLab opening, Canberra 7/11/2016 Simon Birmingham: Thank you very much Brian, the Vice Chancellor. It’s wonderful to be back here at the Australian National University. It’s always a delight to visit Australia’s National University and the one university that, as Federal Minister for Education and Training, I don’t just have the…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech at opening of new facilities at Galilee Catholic School 4/11/2016 Simon Birmingham: Teachers, staff, parents, friends, members of the community, boys and girls, thank you so much for the opportunity to be with you all today to share in the opening of your new building. But importantly, as Archbishop Wilson has rightly…
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