E&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…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Simon Birmingham: Thank you, thank you very much Ms Bradford and to you, to Katrine Hildyard, the local State MP for this area, Mayor Rosenberg, leaders of Lutheran education, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. It’s a real pleasure to be here with you all today to celebrate this opening of your new…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Well, thank you. Thank you very much Lucy, good morning everyone, to Tim and Rebecca and thank you for the opportunity to come and speak first up at the AIC SA Conference this morning. I gather you had a successful afternoon yesterday, I wish you every success during the course of today’s discussions.…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Simon Birmingham: Thank you for that very warm welcome. Yes indeed, whilst you were all at the big night of the conference last night, with the big band, I was in the big setting of Senate Estimates, so I suspect there’s every chance that most of you had an even later night than…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech at launch University of Wollongong’s plans for Molecular Horizons: a Centre for Molecular and Life Sciences 19/10/2016 [Inaudible] And for all that you do for the University of Wollongong but for the promotion of Australia’s $19 billion dollar international education sector more generally. And I really do look forward absolutely to working…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech to Australian Principals Federation AGM 13/10/2016 07:00PM Simon Birmingham: Thank you very much Rob, for that introduction, your kind introduction, following on from Julie’s kind introduction and impassioned words. It’s wonderful to be with you tonight. It’s always wonderful to be introduced as a former director of the Winemakers’ Federation when you’re…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech at Ai Group launch of Graduate Employment Service 11/10/2016 11:20AM Simon Birmingham: Thank you. Thank you very much, Innes. It’s wonderful to be here with you and Megan and Don Matthews, the chair of your graduate board, and representatives of industry, just as it is to be here with John Dewar and…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech to Drama Australia’s National Symposium 30 September 2016 Simon Birmingham: Thank you. Thank you John for that welcome and ladies and gentlemen, thank you for choosing to have your symposium on a Friday afternoon in my home city of Adelaide … [laughter] … it makes for a wonderful opportunity for me to…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech to French Synergies Conference 30/09/16 Simon Birmingham: Thank you Collette and bonjour [speaks French] I won’t subject you to my French. They say that somebody who can speak three languages is trilingual and somebody who can speak two languages is bilingual, unfortunately today you have standing before you somebody who can only…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech at ACEL 2016 Conference 28 September 2016 Well, thank you ladies and gentlemen for that welcome and thank you for the introduction and perhaps most importantly, thank you very much to the conference organisers for facilitating the changing time in schedule for me to be able to be here to speak with…
Details