Podcasts about prime minister turnbull

The energy transition is a hot-button issue in Australia. It is the world's largest exporter of coal and its efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions have consistently fallen short of its peers. It also faces serious risks from climate change, with damages from flooding, wildfires, and heat waves worsening nearly every year.  At the same time, Australia is one of the countries best situated to benefit from a transition to clean energy. It has immense wind and solar resources and is a leading exporter of critical minerals such as lithium, which are needed to manufacture clean energy technologies.  What will it take for Australia to emerge as a leader in the clean energy economy? How can policymakers untangle the difficult politics of climate change? And how is the energy transition shaping Australia's relations with other countries? This week host Jason Bordoff talks with former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull about how the Australian government is approaching the energy transition. He was Australia's 29th prime minister, serving in the role from 2015 to 2018.  Prime Minister Turnbull began his parliamentary career in 2004, including stints as the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources and later as Minister for Communications. After leaving politics in 2019, Prime Minister Turnbull joined the private equity firm KKR as a senior advisor. He is also the inaugural chair of the Global Hydrogen Organisation and will become president of the International Hydropower Association on October 31, 2023. 

In this fifth episode of the podcast, Allan and Darren begin by describing their recent overseas trips—Allan to Beijing, and Darren to Seoul. The analysis of recent events opens with a focus on the recent leaders’ meetings at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. Donald Trump made the most headlines by bringing his “America First” doctrine to the heart of global multilateralism, and Darren asks about the extent to which we should attach any significance to this fact. The discussion turns to Australia, and our new Foreign Minister Marise Payne’s UNGA speech and its contrast with Trump. While she was in New York, Senator Payne also met with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, hopefully advancing the “reset” in bilateral relations that was kicked off by (former) Prime Minister Turnbull. Finally, Allan and Darren discuss New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s “baby diplomacy” in New York, and the genuine soft power success it represents. The discussion turns to the trade war between the US and China, which escalated in September with a fresh round of tariffs being imposed on both sides. Darren elects to play devil’s advocate, posing three arguments to Allan for why the trade war might actually be positive for Australia’s interests—one economic, one strategic, and one political. Allan dismisses each in turn! Finally, against the background of the recent earthquake and tsunami that has devastated the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and the city of Palu in particular, the discussion briefly takes stock of the current state of the Australian aid program, given the downgrading of the portfolio from a ministerial position—the new Assistant Minister is Senator Anne Ruston. As always, our thanks go to AIIA interns Stephanie Rowell and Mani Bovell, Martyn Pearce of the ANU’s Crawford School, Rory Stenning for composing our theme music, and AIIA CEO Melissa Conley-Tyler.

Wednesday Breakfast May 23, 20187:00am     Acknowledgement of Country7:05am     Hannah Morphy-Walsh, one of the co-curators of the exhibition Blak to the Future, speaks with us about the Wominjeka Festival, on at Footscray Community Arts Centre this weekend7:15am     Maylene Slater-Burns from SNAICC on the work of her organisation and Reconciliation on the Rooftop, at Fitzroy Library, Monday, May 28th.7:30am     Dr James Whelan researcher with Environmental Justice Australia on the risks to health of coal fired power stations and the need for improvements or closure of existing stations.7:45am     A Community Forum on the report of the Inquiry into Drug Law Reform is on next Wednesday, @ 4pm May 30th. Greg Denham CEO of Yarra Drug and Health Forum stresses the need for public discussion of the report.8:00am     Father Rod Bower (Gosford Anglican Church) describes the invasion of the Gosford Anglican Church community's Saturday night evening mass service by Nationalists from Melbourne, and the need for government leadership on this issue.8:15am     Prime Minister Turnbull received the report of the Review of Religious Freedom last week but the contents are yet to have been made public. Lee Carnie from the Human Rights Law Centre discusses the background and their submission to the Review.

  This week on the Final Straw we feature 2 interviews. Walid, an asylum seeker held at the Manus Regional Process Center, Papua New Guinea First up, you'll hear a conversation that Bursts had with a refugee seeking asylum in Australia. His name is Walid, he is 24 years old and from Afghanistan. Manus Regional Processing Centre, where Walid is being held alongside nearly 450 other men, is a facility on Papua New Guinea on the PNG Lombrum Naval Base. The processing center, from here out called Manus for short or MRPC, was run up until October 31st by the Spanish multinational company Grupo Ferrovial on behalf of the Australian Government as a way of off-shoring the housing of people seeking asylum. The center was closed October 31st after the Papuan Supreme Court determined the facility unconstitutional in breech of the promise of personal liberty. So, the Australian government withdrew it's medical workers, shut off electricity and water and food shipments. However, the residents of MRPC have refused to be resettled into other facilities in PNG due to fears of physical harm by members of the PNG Defence Forces, as is alleged to have happened in April of this year, as well as violence coming from local gangs wielding machetes and other weapons. The population of the island is just short of 6,000 people and locals have expressed concern that resettlement would affect their economy greatly. In the conversation, Walid mentions two fellows from the MRPC who were found recently hung by their necks in the jungle near the Processing Centre as a proof of danger the refugees face if they leave the premises. The Obama administration had agreed in 2016 to resettle many of Australia's asylum seekers. However, do you remember that first presidential phone call that Trump made, where he ended by saying it was a stupid deal and it was the worst conversation ever? That was #45 chatting with Australia's Prime Minister Turnbull about the resettlement deal for refugees on Nauru and Manus Islands. Cancelling that at the time fed into the issues in PNG & Australia's national politics with the refugees being caught in the middle as pawns. The U.S. has now apparently changed it's tune about the Asylum seekers, having applied for whatever "extreme vetting" it was seeking and has taken in 24 of the men and resettling them. I will admit to being a bit ignorant of the situation in Manus that people like Walid are facing, but what I do understand is this: borders are imprisoning some of the most marginalized people fleeing dangerous situations and holding them in dire circumstances. The men at the Manus Regional Processing Centre are refusing to leave for fear of their lives and in hopes of reaching a safer space and are being starved by bureaucracy. And many Australians are voicing a desire to resettle these people on the mainland. We at the Final Straw wish the residents of MRPC the best of luck and solidarity and will continue to air their words as we receive them. Aaaaalso, a big big big thanks to Linda from Subversion1312 podcast for helping us make this contact with Walid and with some pointers on the questions. Definitely check out their work, it's (under various names) one of the longer running English-language anarchist radio shows and is jam packed Sara Falconer and Daniel McGowan on the 2018 Certain Days Calendar for Political Prisoners Secondly, we are airing an interview presented recently by the Which Side media collective with Sara Falconer and Daniel McGowan about the 2018 Certain Days Calendar for Political Prisoners. Jordan Halliday and Jeremy Parkin host the interview, and range along a wide array of ideas and topics. From the show notes "The calendar is a joint fundraising and educational project between outside organizers in Montreal and Toronto, and three political prisoners being held in maximum-security prisons in New York State: David Gilbert, Robert Seth Hayes and Herman Bell. The initial project was suggested by Herman, and has been shaped throughout the process by all of our ideas, discussions, and analysis. All of the members of the outside collective are involved in day-to-day organizing work other than the calendar, on issues ranging from refugee and immigrant solidarity to community media to prisoner justice. We work from an anti-imperialist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, feminist, queer and trans positive position." You can check out the Which Side online store to see some giveaway deals regarding the Certain Days calendar by visiting http://www.whichsidecollective.org/ and see more from this project at http://whichsidepodcast.com If you'd like to hear The Final Straw's conversation with Herman Bell's daughter in law Dr Kihana Ross which details the incident mentioned in the interview plus some more about his case, you can visit our website. Whichside Podcast is a member of the Channel Zero Network of anarchist podcasts, of which we are as well.  Check out our website for a steady stream of up to date anarchist audios and keep an eye out for our mobile app coming soon. Audios of Interest: Just a heads up, if you missed it. we launched our occasionally weekly intro to tech security podcast series, Error451 this week with a conversation on safer approaches to burner phones.  Check it out and keep an ear out for more! Also, the Anarchist Radio Network just released the November episode of B(A)DNews: Angry Voices From Around The World, which is up on the new A-Radio Network website.  Keep up on episodes there.

As politicians bicker over who's to blame, Prime Minister Turnbull calls the national high-speed network a 'train wreck' which may never be profitable.

Generic Live Show - 08-06-2017 - Hour 1: Tonight on the Generic Live Show with Dale Campbell, we break down the second attempt of a public plebiscite on equal marriage in Australia. This hour, Prime Minister Turnbull faces High Court challenge to gay marriage postal vote and we meet the four "rebels" who could deliver marriage equality to Australia. Also this hour; the school using Pokemon Go to teach science, We talk more Brexit as freedom of movement between UK and EU to end by March 2019 and we review of a reviews of one of the worst movies of 2017; The Emoji Movie.

Generic Live Show - 08-06-2017 - Hour 2: Tonight on the Generic Live Show with Dale Campbell, we break down the second attempt of a public plebiscite on equal marriage in Australia. This hour, Prime Minister Turnbull faces High Court challenge to gay marriage postal vote and we meet the four "rebels" who could deliver marriage equality to Australia. Also this hour; This year has been worst flu season on record, ‘Mental health days’ to be introduced in Australia and the best airport in the world just got better.

04-21-2017 - Vice President Pence Press Conference with the Prime Minister Turnbull of Australia audio English Vice President Pence Press Conference with Malcolm Turnbull the Prime Minister of Australia US Vice-President Mike Pence will hold talks with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull today, with growing military tensions on the Korean peninsula expected to dominate his three-day visit to Australia. Mr Pence flew into Sydney late yesterday accompanied by his wife and children, on the final stopover of his tour of key US allies in Asia. He is expected to use today's talks to reassure Australia of America's commitment to the region when he today holds talks with the Turnbull Government. He will also meet Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, and host a gathering of American business leaders. On Sunday Mr Pence and his family will have the opportunity to explore key Sydney landmarks, during a tour of the Harbor.

Six weeks into Turnbull's turn as leader, host Sally Warhaft is joined by revered political journalists Michelle Grattan and Laura Tingle to discuss the new-look Liberals, the weight of expectation – and Australian political culture more broadly. ‘Here's the rule in the Liberal Party – if you win, you did the right thing.' Those are the words of former treasurer Peter Costello, describing the brutal party dynamics that allowed Malcolm Turnbull to seize the leadership from Tony Abbott on 14 September. The Labor Party turned switching leaders into an unedifying team sport, but the Liberals promised Australians something different: stability and ‘grown-up government'. So, how are they doing? Prime Minister Turnbull wants to be a new kind of leader – with a more optimistic outlook and greater respect for the public's intelligence. The new cabinet, we're told, will be consultative, communicative and no longer subject to ‘captain's calls'. The old guard has promised ‘no sniping, no wrecking'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.