Transcripts

Transcript – TV Interview – ABC – Afternoon Briefing with Greg Jennett

Globally, nuclear energy is in decline. It peaked as a proportion of energy the world over in 1996. It’s less than half of that now. What the Coalition are essentially trying to do is pull the wool over the eyes of the Australian people by having this ridiculous, magic fantasy rather than a sensible, genuine policy that would get us through the energy transition.

Transcript – TV Interview – Sky News – Afternoon Agenda with Tom Connell

Subjects: Senator Fatima Payman, Live Sheep Export Trade  TOM CONNELL (HOST): I spoke to Senator Payman’s Labor colleague and friend, Josh Wilson, a short time ago. I started by asking him if he supports the Senators indefinite suspension from the Labor caucus.  JOSH WILSON: The path that Fatima has chosen brings consequences with it. We […]

Transcript – TV Interview – ABC – Afternoon Briefing with Greg Jennett

The agricultural sector in Western Australia is really important, it’s an incredibly valuable part of the economy and of the Western Australian society more broadly. The live sheep export trade is worth less than 1 per cent of Western Australian agricultural output, less than 0.1 per cent of Australian agricultural output. It’s not the main game in WA and it’s been a dying trade for the entirety of the 21st century, it’s declined by more than 90 per cent.

Transcript – Radio Interview – ABC Perth Drive with Jo Trilling

I think if you think about Anthony, Penny, Kevin and Stephen, that’s a pretty potent quartet and they’ve applied themselves to this cause, just as the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister worked very hard to achieve the freedom of Sean Turnell from Myanmar and Cheng Lei from China. Those things aren’t easy or straightforward to achieve. Australia isn’t able to bang its fist on the table and insist that other governments act in a particular way, and we wouldn’t expect other governments to think they could do that with respect to Australia, but I think that steady patient, but clear and committed, work has made a difference in this case.

Transcript – Doorstop – Australian Parliament House

But without a shadow of a doubt, the most significant shift was in the approach by the Australian Government. From the time that Anthony Albanese was the leader of the opposition through to his prime ministership, he made it clear that enough was enough.

Transcript – TV Interview – ABC Afternoon Briefing with Greg Jennett

The Australian government has been principled, consistent, persistent and resolute in calling for a ceasefire, in saying about military action in Rafah, that it would be unjustifiable, precisely because it is likely to have these kinds of consequences. When you think that we’ve seen the wholesale destruction of Gaza, a relatively small area of land and civilians forced and encouraged to go into a place that they understood as a place of refuge, and then they’re on the receiving end of an additional bombardment, it has a predictable result. So Australia, the Australian Government, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, will continue to take the position that Australia should take, which is to call for an end to the violence, advocate and vote for a ceasefire at the UN, when we have the opportunity to do that.

Transcript – Radio Interview – ABC News Radio – Weekend Breakfast

The live sheep export industry has declined by over 90% and so the transition has been underway for some considerable time. There’s no reason – with an assistance package of $107 million – that we can’t continue down the path of having more exports in the form of a higher value fresh, chilled and frozen boxed trade.

Transcript – TV Interview – Sky News – Afternoon Agenda with Ashleigh Gillon

There’s no place for inciting violence or hatred, there’s no place for discrimination and prejudice in Australia. There is a place for activism and community protest and ordinary civil and political engagement. In fact, it’s one of the most precious features of our democracy. So, I think we should all speak up for that each and every day, and I will.

Transcript – Radio Interview – 6PR – Mornings with Sean Cowan

it’s five years today that Julian Assange has been in a maximum-security prison – Belmarsh prison – when he has never been convicted of any substantial charge. It’s well and truly time for him to go free. That’s the message from the Australian Government, the PM has said that, and indeed the leader of the opposition has said that.

And as you referred to before, I seconded the motion in February that was passed by the House of Representatives calling for Julian Assange to be released and to be able to come home and be with his family.

Transcript – TV Interview – ABC Afternoon Briefing with Greg Jennett

People keep saying let’s have a conversation about nuclear, we’ve hardly had a conversation about anything else. Every time we look, at nuclear, we get the same answer, which is that it’s not economically viable. So, it’s sad and bizarre that the one energy policy Peter Dutton, and Ted O’Brien have come up with is this nuclear energy fantasy.