Prime Minister of Australia

Australia and Malaysia sign free trade agreement

22nd May 2012

Australia and Malaysia today signed a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA) that will open avenues for Australian goods and services into the Malaysian market.

The agreement will further integrate the Australian economy with the fast-growing Asian region, benefiting Australian exporters, importers and consumers.

Transcript of joint press conference, Chicago

21st May 2012

PM: I’m here today with Minister Smith, and today I’ve attended the NATO-ISAF summit. This has been an important meeting and a good discussion between partners.

Primarily, we spent the time agreeing important outcomes for the future of our mission in Afghanistan.

First we reviewed transition. We’ve agreed that we are on track and we will complete transition by the end of 2014.

Fair Go swallowed by education gap

No country can really claim to be the land of the fair go unless that fair go is extended from the start, in our classrooms and our school playgrounds.

But, as we read on the front page of The Advertiser (21/5/12), too many Australian school students are being denied a fair go because of the gap between rich and poor that has developed in our schools.

Peter Garrett

24th May 2012

A tireless worker on and off the field

Yesterday, the nation lost a hero.

Jim Stynes was a man who inspired fans across the nation playing Australia’s game.

An Irishman, imported from the other side of the world when he was just 18 to play a game foreign to him, he quickly became a master of it winning the Brownlow Medal in 1991.

Julia Gillard

21st Mar 2012