Transcripts
2024
December
- Subject: Australia-Singapore Relationship.
November
- Subjects: Simon Birmingham's Retirement, Electoral Reforms, Future Made in Australia Legislation, Senate Guillotine.
- Subjects: Prime Minister Albanese and President Xi meeting at G20, Trade with the US, Trade with China, electoral donations reforms, Misinformation Bill.
- Subjects: Electoral reform, trade relations, renewable energy transition.
- Subjects: Visit to Shanghai, trade with China, US Election.
October
- Subjects: Trade with China, Australia-China relationship, trade diversification.
- Subjects: Australia-China trade; Government assisted flights for Australians from Lebanon; Myanmar.
September
- Subjects: Trade with India, Whyalla steelworks.
- Subjects: Australia’s trade agreement with the UAE, trade with China, electoral reforms.
- Subjects: Housing Australia Future Fund, UAE free trade agreement, electoral reform.
- Subjects: Trade agreement with the United Arab Emirates, trade with the European Union.
August
- Subjects: Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, Australia’s critical minerals.
June
- Subjects: Premier Li’s visit, trade with China, Australia-China relationship.
- Subjects: Premier Li visit to Australia, Australia China trade relations, climate targets, John Setka.
- Subjects: Resumption of wine exports to China, new Government support for the Australian wine industry, Australia-China relationship.
- Subjects: Resumption of wine exports to China, Impediments to trade with China, Deputy Opposition Leader’s comments on China and ADF personnel.
- Subjects: US trade relations, boosting trade and investment with Southeast Asia, Indo-Pacific Economic Framework.
May
- Subjects: Trade with China, suspensions on Australian beef lifted, critical minerals partnership with the EU, Electoral reform, Direction 99.
April
- Subjects: Death of Lalzawmi ‘Zomi’ Frankcom, Australia’s new Governor-General, trade with China, electoral reform.
- Subjects: Removal of Chinese wine tariffs, AU-EU Free Trade Agreement.
- Subjects: Removal of Chinese wine tariffs, diversifying trading relationships.
March
- Subjects: China Export Tariffs; South Australian Wine Industry
- Subjects: $840 million package for Arafura Rare Earth's project and employment in the Northern Territory.
- Subjects: China interim decision on removal of tariffs on Australian wine.
- Subjects: ASEAN, Israel – Hamas conflict, China trade sanctions, nuclear.
- Subjects: ASEAN Summit, former Prime Minister Paul Keating’s comments, Trade relations with Southeast Asia
February
- Subjects: Trade with China, sentencing of Dr Yang Hengjun, AU-EU free trade agreement, trade agreement with the UAE.
- Subjects: Australia-China trade relations
- Subjects: Australia’s Best Beaches
January
- Far North Queensland disaster recovery, Inquiry into supermarket prices, NRL expansion.
2023
December
- Subjects: AUKUS, Red Sea, Hamas-Israel conflict, Trade with China.
November
- Subjects: IPEF and APEC Ministerial trade talks, Trade relations with China.
- Subjects: Visit to the People's Republic of China; trade; China International Import Expo; visit to Shanghai; CPTPP; Australia's relationship with China; panda diplomacy.
October
- Subjects: AU-EU trade talks, Prime Minister's Visit to China, Hamas-Israel conflict.
- Subjects: Trade with China, AU-EU Free Trade Agreement, electoral reform.
- Subjects: Pathway towards lifting duties on Australian wine, AU-EU FTA, appointment of Consul-General and Senior Trade and Investment Commissioner in San Francisco.
- Subjects: Chinese sanctions on Australia wine, Australia-China relations, European free trade agreement negotiations.
- Subjects: Pathway towards lifting duties on Australian wine, Australia-China trade relations.
- Subjects: Trade with China, Hamas-Israel Conflict.
- Subjects: Trade with China, Australia-European free trade agreement.
September
- Subjects: Australia China Trade, Southeast Asia Economic Strategy, Enrolment for the Referendum.
- Subjects: Qatar, Free Trade Agreements, Southeast Asia Economic Strategy.
- Subjects: Trade with Southeast Asia, Qantas CEO departure, airline competition within Australia.
- Subjects: Southeast Asia Economic Strategy, Qatar, EU Free Trade Agreement.
August
- Subjects: Recommencement of barley exports to China, Trade with China trade.
- Subjects: Australia-New Zealand trade agreement, relationship with China.
- Subjects: Trade with China
- Subjects: Trade relations with China, Chinese detention of Australian citizens, Australia-European Union Free Trade Agreement.
- Subjects: Lifting of Chinese tariffs on Australian barley, live cattle to Indonesia.
- Subjects: Removal of Chinese tariffs on Australian barley.
- Subjects: Removal of Chinese tariffs on Australian barley; WTO disputes with China; Detention of Australian citizens in China.
- Subjects: Australia-European Union Free Trade Agreement, live cattle to Indonesia, trade with China.
July
- Subjects: Australia-European Union free trade agreement negotiations
June
- Subjects: Simon Crean, EU Free Trade Agreement, Trade with China, Tourism Australia campaign launch in China.
- Subjects: Russia, Simon Crean.
- Subjects: EU Free Trade Agreement, China trade, Senator Thorpe, gas exports
- Subjects: Australia-China trade relationship, The Voice, Calvary Hospital, CPTPP membership, Australia-EU free trade agreement, ISDS provisions.
May
- Subjects: Australia-China trade relationship, Chinese investment in Australia, CPTPP membership, Australia-EU free trade agreement, ISDS provisions.
- Subjects: Australian timber exports, Australia-China trade, CPTPP.
- Subjects: China visit, trade talks with Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao.
- Subjects: Wellington hostel fire, visit to China visit, Australia-China trade relations.
- Subjects: Visit to China, Australia-China trade relationship.
- Subjects: Visit to China, Australia-China trade relationship, foreign investment in Australia, Australians detained in China.
- Subjects: 16th Joint Ministerial Economic Commission, Australia-China trade relationship, Chinese investment in Australia, Chinese joining CPTPP.
- Subjects: Visit to Beijing, Australia-China Trade Relations, Joint Ministerial Economic Commission.
- Subjects: Australia-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement, Trade with China, Pacific budget speculation.
- Subjects: Australia-Singapore trade relations, Trade with China, Federal Budget.
- Subjects: 13th Singapore Australia Joint Ministerial Committee; defence cooperation; energy into the Singapore market; UN Convention on the Law of the Sea; research and development; China’s bid to join the CPTPP; AUKUS.
April
- Subjects: Australia-Vietnam relationship; tourism; Australia-China relationship, Western Australian Premier’s visit to China.
- Subjects: Australia-China trade relationship, Australian Government’s agreement with China on pathway towards lifting duties on Australian barley, duties on Australian wine, Australia’s trade diversification policy.
- Subjects: Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, Australia-China trade relations.
March
- Subjects: Referendum Machinery Bill, Voice to Parliament Referendum.
- Subjects: AUKUS, Australia-China trade relationship, Referendum Machinery Bill.
- Subjects: Visit to India, The Australian Business Delegation, Australia’s trade relationship with India, trade of fossil fuels, Chinese Trade Impediments.
February
- Subjects: One year since Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine; additional military assistance to Ukraine; further sanctions on Russian individuals and organisations, Australia-China trade relationship.
- Subjects: Australia-China trade relations, trade diversification, $10 million boost for caravan parks.
- Subjects: Australia-China trade relations, trade diversification.
- Subjects: Australia’s Trade Relationship with China, Trade Diversification, Free Trade Agreements.
- Opening remarks
January
- Subjects: Best Australian Beaches 2023, Drowning Deaths on Beaches, First Trade Ministers Meeting with China.
- Subjects: Australia-China relations, wine and barley trade blockages, support for Ukraine.
2022
December
- Subjects: China Trade Blockages, Australia-India Trade Agreement (ECTA), Voice to Parliament Referendum.
- Subjects: Australia-China relationship, Australia-India Free Trade Agreement.
November
- Subjects: Australia-China trade relationship, India and UK free trade agreements.
- Subjects: Albanese Government’s Trade Agenda, Trade blockages, Australia-China relationship, Free trade agreements, Australian citizens in Chinese detention.
- Subjects: National Australia-Indonesia Business Council Conference, Trade and Investment with Indonesia, US B52’s in Northern Australia, Mining in Litchfield National Park.
October
- Subjects: Tourism Australia’s New Global Campaign, Rising Cost of Airfares.
- Subjects: Trade and investment with South Korea, Gas supplies, Indo-Pacific Economic Framework.
- Subjects: Tourism Australia campaign, Renewable energy supplies to Japan, Chinese ban on Australian exports.
- Subjects: China trade blockages, trade diversification, rock lobster, Free Trade Agreements with the UK and India.
- Subjects: Trade Delegation to Tokyo and South Korea, Energy Supply, Hydrogen, Critical Minerals, EV Batteries.
September
- Subjects: AU-EU Free Trade Agreement; Australia-India Free Trade Agreement, AU-UK Free Trade Agreement; National Anti-Corruption Commission.
- Subjects: Russian oil price cap, European free trade agreement.
- Subjects: AU-UK Free Trade Agreement, nuclear-powered submarines, Malinauskas Government’s task force, trade relations with China.
August
- Subjects: Jobs and Skills Summit, Labour Shortages, Overseas Tourist Market, Ministerial Code of Conduct.
- Subjects: Petroleum Exploration, Renewable Energy, Jobs and Skills Summit, Migration, Climate Action Targets, Electoral Reform.
July
- Subjects: Australia–China Relationship, Chinese Coal Imports Ban UK Free Trade Agreement.
- Subjects: Tourism numbers, hospitality and tourism staff numbers, passport and visa delays, mask wearing, Splendour in the Grass, Olympic Games.
- Tourism relationship with New Zealand, Australia-China relationship, Prime Minister’s overseas travel, EU trade agreement, Balance of power in the senate.
June
- 2030 emissions target, EU free trade agreement, Australia-China relations.
- Subjects: EU, UK and India Free Trade Agreements, Diplomatic relations with China, Staffing allocations.
- Meeting with Chinese counterpart, Trade, Food shortages and Ukraine.