E&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Australia/New Zealand Closer Economic Relationship Trade Agreement; CPTPP; Simon Birmingham: I’d like to welcome my good friend David Parker, the New Zealand Trade Minister to Adelaide, to Australia today and especially to do so on Waitangi Day. So, happy Waitangi Day to David, and to all of our New Zealand friends involved.…
DetailsTopics: Hakeem Al-Araibi, proposal to ban cotton exports, Banking Royal Commission, SA Royal Commission into the management of Murray Darling Basin. Ali Clarke: Good morning Simon Birmingham. Simon Birmingham: Good morning. Good to be with you, wish there was a flying fox down Kensington Road. Ali Clarke: Yes, well, we could maybe arrange that couldn’t…
DetailsThe Liberal-National Government has today welcomed data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showing Australia recorded a $22.2 billion trade surplus in 2018, which is the highest ever for a calendar year. Australia’s two-way trade in goods and services also hit a record high of $854 billion in 2018. Australia continues to successfully…
DetailsThe Liberal-National Government has today announced $11 million in funding to attract more Chinese tour group tourists to Australia. Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment Simon Birmingham said the Approved Destination Scheme (ADS) accounted for a quarter of all Chinese visitors to Australia each year and around $1 billion in expenditure. “The ADS…
DetailsConsultations are now open on Australia’s next national tourism strategy, with industry stakeholders encouraged to have their say on a draft report developed by the Beyond Tourism 2020 Steering Committee. Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment Simon Birmingham urged stakeholders, from local and state governments to peak industry bodies and individual tourism operators to…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on 2GB with Chris Kenny Topics: Australia-EU Free Trade Agreement; Brexit 24/01/2019 11:14PM Chris Kenny: Now while his home city of Adelaide suffers under record heat today, it’s been an absolute scorcher in Adelaide, its hottest ever day recorded as we mentioned earlier, the South Australian Senator Simon Birmingham being the Trade Minister…
DetailsE&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on RN Breakfast with Fran Kelly Topics: Digital trade rules; Yang Hengjun 25/01/2019 7:35am Fran Kelly: Global business and political elites have gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos again and Australia is there driving talks to establish a new set of global digital trade rules. The rules would cover…
DetailsI am pleased to announce two new appointments to the Tourism Australia Board, Mr John Hart and Mr Jeffrey Ellison, and the reappointment of Ms Hayley Baillie for another term. Mr Hart brings extensive leadership experience from the hospitality industry, where he has over 30 years’ experience in operational, human resources and industrial relations…
DetailsAustralia, Japan and Singapore hosted an informal meeting of Ministers on the World Trade Organization (WTO) e-commerce initiative in the margins of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Ministers welcomed the progress made in the WTO e-commerce initiative since its launch at the eleventh WTO Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires in 2017.…
DetailsAustralian efforts have ignited negotiations with 75 other members of the World Trade Organization (WTO), representing over 90 per cent of global trade, on the development of new international rules in digital trade. Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment Simon Birmingham said establishing new international rules for digital trade would help keep markets open, reduce…
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