Doorstop interview - Parliament House Canberra

28-Oct-2009 Topics: Review into sport, Job Services Australia  Andrew Southcott: I’d like to make a couple of statements in regard to sport and also employment.  Firstly, 14 months ago all Australians were cheering our Olympic team at Beijing.  At that point the Government announced a review into sport.  It has now been going for 14 months.  It has not yet ... more

Interview with Matthew Abraham & David Bevan, 891 ABC Adelaide.

16-Oct-2009 Topics: Future of South Road/Sturt Road intersection upgrade David Bevan: So what’s happened to the other underpasses? Both in the north and in the south. Andrew Southcott is the federal Liberal MP for Boothby, so he is worried about the south, good morning Andrew Southcott. Andrew: Good morning David.David: What are your concerns regarding the ... more

Interview with Mike Smithson on FiveAA Adelaide. Topics: Apprenticeship figures

08-Sep-2009 SMITHSON:Now yesterday we spoke at some lengthy to the State Minister about apprenticeships and the numbers are down this year of young people signing up for apprenticeships and he said that it’s more a less a seasonal thing, in the order of 12.5% that we were down, and I had a call from the shadow Employment and Participation and Training Minister ... more

Interview on ABC2 Breakfast

31-Jul-2009 Virginia: Employment Participation Minister Mark Arbib after he couldn’t provide any details of the Government’s green jobs programme yesterday. Senator Arbib stumbled over whether the 10,000 places were paid jobs or work experience and we’ve been playing you some of the footage of that interview during this morning. For more the Opposition’s ... more

Interview on ABC2 Breakfast Topic: Employment Services Tender

31-Mar-2009 Joe O’Brien: Andrew Southcott, good morning.Andrew Southcott: Good morning, Joe.Joe O’Brien: How many jobs are likely to go as a result of this review? Andrew Southcott: Well, from what I’ve heard from Job Network providers it will be at least 1000 jobs. We’ll get more of an idea when the successful tenderers are announced- possibly today. Joe ... more

Doorstop Interview - Topics: Job Network, Employment Services Tender

30-Mar-2009 Journalist: (inaudible) Andrew Southcott: (inaudible) We have a looming disaster in employment services.  First of all, the government have designed a model for a time of full employment.  They designed this model at a time when unemployment was 4%, the best it had been in a generation.  And one of the major problems with this model is there is a ... more

Interview on ABC2 Breakfast. Topics: Jobs, ANZ Job series, Emissions Trading Scheme

11-Mar-2009 Journalist: New figures show Australian job advertisements have fallen by a record 40% in the last year. For more, the Opposition spokesman on employment participation Andrew Southcott joins us from Canberra. Good morning. The figures aren't good and indeed Governments and countries around the world are grappling with this very problem of, as the ... more

Interview on ABC2 Breakfast with Joe O’Brien. Topics: Pacific Brands, Economy

26-Feb-2009 Joe: Andrew Southcott is the Opposition’s Employment Participation spokesman and he joins us from Canberra. Andrew Southcott, good morning.Andrew: Good morning Joe. Joe: Now the Government rang this company and said to them look what can we do for you, and were knocked back. Could the Government have done any more? Andrew: The most extraordinary ... more

Radio interview with Jon Faine, ABC Melbourne

20-Feb-2009 Jon: Do you support Julia Gillard’s announcement to assist apprentices? Andrew: Well we have said there is a requirement for employers to have more support to retain apprentices. During the recessions of the early 1980s and early 1990s we did see the numbers of apprentices fall. Addressing it in the areas of out of trade is something that makes ... more

Interview on ABC2 Breakfast Show

15-Jan-2009  Interviewer: Andrew Southcott is the Opposition’s Employment spokesperson and he joins us now from AdelaideAndrew: Good morning. Interviewer: We’ll learn in a few hours where the jobless rate sits (inaudible)Andrew: What it suggests is that whatever today’s figures show, the unemployment rate is on its way to over 5% but also yesterday we had the ... more

Radio Interview with Mike Smithson FiveAA, Adelaide

09-Jan-2009 Mike: Do you share Sharan’s optimism with the way wages are headed, given Julia Gillard’scomments yesterday?Andrew: I think there are a lot of dangers of any wages breakout to the Australian economy and many of your listeners will remember in the 70’s and 80’s we saw wages break out like this actually lead to much higher unemployment. Our concern ... more

Interview on ABC2 Breakfast with Virginia Trioli

12-Dec-2008   Virginia: Andrew Southcott is the Opposition’s Employment Participation Spokesman and he joins us now from Adelaide. Andrew Southcott, good morning.Andrew: Good morning Virginia. Virginia: If there's any good news I guess to be gleaned from this it seems those job losses are mainly in part-time work rather than full-time work. Which when you look ... more