Topics: 2020 Budget, COVID-19 vaccine and testing, Queensland border restrictions E&OE: Fran Kelly: Well, the Government’s big spending emergency budget is attracting a lot of complaints that it does nothing to specifically support women and women have borne the brunt of the COVID recession in terms of unemployment in particular. The budget did include a…
Topics: 2020 Budget E&OE: David Koch: The Federal Government is facing criticism that women are being left out of its big spending Budget. The Opposition, the ACTU and advocacy groups say the recession busting plan does not do enough for women who’ve been hit especially hard by the COVID crisis. We’re joined now by Industry…
Topics: 2020 Budget E&OE: Matt Webber: Of course, we’ve been screaming for infrastructure spend in South East Queensland for quite some time now, seems all we needed was a pandemic to kick start things. A long way from the S-word – surplus – that was being tossed about a few years back, of course, our…
Topics: 2020 Budget E&OE: Ben Wood: Big news last night, of course… Sean Flanagan: Huge. Ben Wood: … the Federal Budget finally handed down. Spida Everitt: Unbelievable. Ben Wood: Special guest on with us now to help make sense of it all, Flan. Sean Flanagan: Yeah. Karen Andrews, good morning. Karen Andrews: Good morning. How…
Topics: Modern Manufacturing Strategy E&OE: Jane Norman: The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the fragility of global supply chains. You only need to think back to the beginning of the pandemic when supplies of personal protective equipment were at such risk that Australian factories swung into gear and started producing it themselves. Well, the Federal Government…
Topics: Modern Manufacturing Strategy E&OE: Ross Stevenson: Victorian medical, food and beverage businesses will become world leaders in a budget plan, costing $1.5 billion, to kick-start the nation’s manufacturing sector and create 300,000 jobs. Karen Andrews is the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology. Minister, good morning to you. Karen Andrews: Good morning. Ross Stevenson:…
Topics: Modern Manufacturing Strategy E&OE: Peter Stefanovic: Well, let’s head back to Canberra now, this is our top story of the morning that $1.5 billion will be spent to save the manufacturing sector in Australia. And joining me is the Industry Minister Karen Andrews. Minister, good to see you, thanks so much for joining us.…
Topics: Modern Manufacturing Strategy, Queensland border closures E&OE: Neil Breen: Just as JobKeeper is being wound down, the Morrison Government’s JobMaker plan is being cranked up. Today, some of the details are being unveiled with a $1.5 billion plan to transform Australia’s manufacturing industry. We know we’ve let manufacturing slide; it’s time to build it…
Topics: Modern Manufacturing Strategy E&OE: David Koch: The Government is committing $1.5 billion to create more local jobs in manufacturing. It’s part of the newly announced Modern Manufacturing Strategy, which will focus on six targeted areas. These priorities are resources and minerals, food and beverage, medical products, recycling and clean energy, defence, and also space,…
Topics: Modern Manufacturing Strategy and Victorian COVID restrictions E&OE: Karl Stefanovic: More now on the Prime Minister’s $1.5 billion plan to rebuild the nation’s economy. Minister for Industry, Science and Technology Karen Andrews joins us. Karen, I want to start with that. We just heard a GP saying, get kids back to school, let’s open…