Topics: Conduct in Parliament House, Manufacturing Strategy E&OE: Karen Andrews: Well, good morning. As you’ve just heard, I have very publicly said that I have had an absolute gutful, and that my conscience will not allow me to remain quiet. There are some specific instances in this building that are absolutely unacceptable. What does it…
Topics: Conduct in Parliament House E&OE: Monique Wright: Well, joining us now is the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, Karen Andrews. Good morning to you, Minister, thanks for being with us. How widespread is this problem, do you think, in Parliament House? Have you heard of this happening before? I heard, Tanya Plibersek, last…
Topics: Conduct in Parliament House E&OE: Fran Kelly: Well, the Morrison Government has vowed to sack any male staffers embroiled in the latest sex scandal to rock the Liberal Party. It’s been revealed that at least four Coalition employees have been swapping explicit videos of their sexual encounters in Parliament House, including one lewd sexual…
Karen Andrews: Good morning. It’s an absolute pleasure to be back here at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary and to have with me the Tourism Minister Dan Tehan, my Gold Coast colleagues – Minister Stuart Robert, Angie Bell, the Member for Moncrieff. And, of course we also have here the General Manager of Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary Michael…
Topics: Personal background, Parliament House culture, energy mix, space sector, Facebook E&OE: Chris Smith: I was in Canberra during the week to interview Karen Andrews, the Federal Minister. And I notice from conversations with women in Parliament House that they are demanding a change in the culture there, and they expect it to happen from…
Topics: Modern Manufacturing Initiative and Space road map, NASA Perseverance rover E&OE: Karen Andrews: This is a very significant day for Australian manufacturing. It’s a particularly important day for the Australian space manufacturing sector. I’m here today to announce that we are launching the first road map, which will lead to funding under the $1.3…
Topics: Aussie-made rocket fuel E&OE: Karen Andrews: Well, it’s an absolute pleasure to be here today. The Morrison Government is fuelling job creation. We are supporting Australia’s space sector to absolutely take off. So right here today, we have the first commercial rocket that was launched using Australian-made solid-state rocket fuel. So this is a…
Topics: Social media regulations E&OE: Luke Grant: There are growing calls as we’ve been telling you for a few days now, for consistent free speech rules for tech giants. It follows Twitter and Facebook and a number of other social media platforms, so-called, banned the US President Donald Trump. I spoke about it yesterday on…
Topics: Social media regulations E&OE: Stephen Quartermain: Well, Twitter certainly has been in the news the last few days, banning Donald Trump pretty much permanently for his tweets, which led to the horrible incident in Washington. And now, more than 50 Australian MPs have joined a new parliamentary group dedicated to reining in the technology…
Topics: Naturo’s milk innovation E&OE: Ted O’Brien: So, can I just say a very big welcome and it’s wonderful to be here in Coolum at Naturo, a world leading, innovative company here locally and we’re very grateful to Jeff Hastings. Jeff, thank you to you and your leadership team and the staff, for hosting us…