Panelists: Minister Karen Andrews, Linda Burney, Sarah Hanson-Young, Nicole Livingstone and Sabina Shugg E&OE. *Check against delivery* Annabel Crabb: Good evening and welcome to Q and A. I’m Annabel Crabb. Here to answer your questions tonight Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Olympian and head of the Women’s AFL Nicole Livingstone, Minister for Industry, Science and Technology Karen Andrews, Labor frontbencher Linda Burney…
E&OE Nicole Dyer: Does the Liberal Party need quotas to ensure that it has enough women in its ranks? When it comes to numbers and women, the Party does not have a good record with only one in five of its Federal representatives being female. Three years ago, Liberals set a non-enforceable target of 50 per cent female candidates by…
Topics: Australia’s steel industry and the impact of the Indonesia-Australia free trade agreement. E&OE: Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells: Well thank you very much for joining us this morning, it’s a great pleasure to welcome Minister Karen Andrews here to the Illawarra. Not her first visit, not her first visit I think, in a previous life Karen was certainly down here. Look,…
Topics: AIMS Index of Marine Industry, flood support for North Queensland businesses and Security of Payments E&OE: Karen Andrews: Well, it’s a pleasure to be here this morning at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, to officially launch the AIMS index into marine industries. We know that the marine industries in Australia provide a significant amount of money to…
E&OE: Karen Andrews: Well good morning. It's an absolute pleasure to be here this morning to announce the next round of funding for CRC Projects. Importantly, this is a $20 million commitment from the Liberal National Government to support critical minerals here in Australia. So this is the first time that CRC Projects have targeted critical minerals; we know…
E&OE Karen Andrews: So, today the building ministers from states and territories and, of course, with the Commonwealth Government have reached a significant milestone in protecting Australians into the future. Agreement has been reached at the Building Ministers’ Forum today in respect of the future of cladding in this country. An agreement has been reached by all ministers at…
E&OE Robbie Buck: Now if you live in an apartment block here in Sydney, did you look at the images from Melbourne last week with that fire and think, good grief, I wonder if it could happen here? The fire was in Spencer Street in Melbourne, it spread up the side of a high-rise building, and it had…
E&OE SABRA LANE: Karen Andrews, more than 18 months ago, there was a national audit ordered across Australia in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire which claimed 70 lives, to identify which buildings here had flammable cladding. Why isn’t there a public register of that information? KAREN ANDREWS: Look, that’s a very good question. So let’s just deal…
Doorstop – ABC TV, Melbourne E&OE: Question: Well we’ve known about this cladding issue since the frost, as you’ve pointed out, what’s your kind of general response to how things are progressing now that we’ve just had another fire? Karen Andrews: Building regulation is a state issue so it’s a responsibility of the Victorian State Government to deal with…
Topics: Gold Coast Airport Hotel ground breaking, cladding audits and Building Minister’s Forum E&OE: Karen Andrews: Good morning, and it’s an absolute pleasure to be here this morning for the commencement of this brand spanking new facility here on the Gold Coast. We have long-needed and wanted an airport hotel. So I’m so happy that the first real steps have…