Topics: Cheng Lei media incident; Australia-China relationship; 08:10AM AEST 18 June 2024 Monique Wright: Well, now to the bizarre moment when Chinese officials attempted to block the view of an Australian journalist during a media event in Canberra. Footage from the press conference shows a man in a blue suit and a woman in…
Topics: Cheng Lei media incident; Australia-China relationship; 07:45AM AEST 18 June 2024 Pete Stefanovic: Okay, let’s bring in the Shadow Foreign minister, Simon Birmingham. Now for his thoughts on all of this. Simon, good to see you. So, what did you make of those attempts to block Cheng Lei and also the Prime Minister’s…
Topics: Australia-China relationship; Chinese military operations; Meeting with Premier Li; 04:15PM AEST 17 June 2024 Greg Jennett: Simon Birmingham, great to have you with us on a very busy afternoon for everyone involved in Premier Lee’s visit. Now we’ve heard all the big words today. Renewed. Revitalised. Stabilised. What test will you apply…
Topics: Cheng Lei media incident; Chinese Premier visit to Australia; China-Australia relationship; Nuclear power policy; 02:35PM AEST 17 June 2024 Tom Connell: So that was the Prime Minister live, joining me here in the studio and waiting patiently, the Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Birmingham. What do you make of that? Didn’t know what…
Topics: Chinese Premier visit to Australia; G7 nations support for Ukraine; 09:35AM AEST 14 June 2024 Laura Jayes: Australia is preparing for an historic visit from the Chinese Premier this weekend. It’ll be the first time a Chinese premier has been here in seven years, so what can we expect? Joining me live is…
Australia risks again falling behind like-minded partners supporting Ukraine unless the Albanese Government moves to quickly back the G7 agreement to a $50 billion USD loan for Ukraine obtained through frozen Russian assets. Having claimed legal difficulties as justification to not use Russian assets, the Albanese Government now needs to stop finding excuses to not…
Topics: Coalition policy to raise social media age limit; Chinese President visit to Australia; Adelaide pandas; Redirecting funds of seized Russian assets; SA political donations ban proposal; 04:10PM ACST 13 June 2024 Greg Jennett: Simon Birmingham, welcome back once again to Afternoon Briefing. We’ve got some foreign affairs matters to get to in…
Topics: Steele Hall; Jennifer Cashmore; King’s Birthday honours 8:36AM ACST 11 June 2024 Sonya Feldhoff: Well, over the weekend, news of the deaths of two stalwarts of the conservative side of politics in a former Premier, Steele Hall, and of course the passing of Jennifer Cashmore. Jules Schiller: It is odd…
Topics: Steele Hall 08:05AM ACST 11 June 2024 David Penberthy: Well, as we said at the start of the program, it was a sad day, and somewhat strange day for the South Australian Liberal Party, where in the space of just a few hours two of the party’s greats, former Premier and Senator and…
Steele Hall was legend of South Australian politics. Steele stands tall in the history of our state and the Liberal Party as a reformer, an orator and a man of principle willing to stand by his values. As both a state and federal Member of Parliament and a Senator, Steele transcended state and federal politics…