Topics: Manufacturing Modernisation Fund E&OE: David Iliffe: Well, as I mentioned, there is a campaign to try to boost manufacturing in Australia, and this campaign- well this situation has been heightened by the growing tensions between Australia and China. This country is very dependent on China for many products that are manufactured there. When was…
DetailsTopics: Australia Post, Modern Manufacturing Strategy, COVID-19 vaccine, Queensland state election E&OE: David Speers: Karen Andrews, welcome to the program. Can I just start by asking whether you agree with your colleague Andrew Laming there? Should the heads of the NBN, Snowy Hydro, Australia Post, and so on earn multiple time what a High Court…
DetailsTopics: NZ election, Victorian COVID restrictions, Modern Manufacturing Strategy, Gladys Berejiklian. E&OE: Kieran Gilbert: Let’s go live now to the Gold Coast. I’m joined by Karen Andrews, Minister for Industry, Science and Technology. Minister, thanks very much for your time. A resounding win for Jacinda Ardern. Does it show yet again that at this time…
DetailsKAREN ANDREWS: Well, hello. It’s an absolute pleasure to be here at Neumanns here on the Gold Coast. Neumanns are, quite frankly, a shining lot of local manufacturing here on the Gold Coast, employing about 160 workers on this site, 350 across the Gold Coast and then more broadly, about 550. They’re a great example…
DetailsTopics: Additional funding for CSIRO, Modern Manufacturing Strategy, Budget 2020-21 E&OE: Karen Andrews: It’s an absolute pleasure to be here at CSIRO. This week, the Government has unveiled its plan for the economic recovery of this nation. Central to that, is a platform to make sure that we are creating the jobs that are needed…
DetailsTopics: 2020 Budget E&OE: Question: Minister, what more can the Government do for women? Is it actually doing enough? Karen Andrews: It’s absolutely doing enough for women. I totally reject the criticism that this Budget does not support women. We are providing significant funding for businesses – women are business owners. We are committed to…
DetailsTopics: 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…
DetailsTopics: 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…
DetailsTopics: 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…
DetailsTopics: 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…
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