Press Office

TUE 04 SEPTEMBER 2012

Interview with John Laws

HOST: Prime Minister good morning. ...

TUE 04 SEPTEMBER 2012

Interview with Sabra Lane

HOST: Prime Minister, good morning and welcome to AM. ...

MON 03 SEPTEMBER 2012

Interview with Leigh Sales

HOST: Prime Minister, thank you for your time. How can we take you seriously that school reform is the most important bill of 2012 when you've not given any detail about how it will be funded?  ...

MON 03 SEPTEMBER 2012

National Press Club Q&A

JOURNALIST: Could I be so brutal as to go straight to the money question? Now you have got $8 billion for a National Disability Insurance Scheme, you have got $5 billion extra for asylum seekers, you have got $4 billion extra for dental and now we are talking about $6.5 billion for the Gonski...

FRI 31 AUGUST 2012

Transcript of joint press conference, Canberra

I’m joined by the Chief of the Defence Force, General David Hurley. Yesterday was a terrible day of loss for our nation. Today is a day of grief. I know many Australians will be feeling the weight of this loss from yesterday. Still reeling from the shock. Still asking...

WED 29 AUGUST 2012

Transcript of press conference, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

E & O E – PROOF ONLY PM: Our nation is confronting the most awful news. We have lost five soldiers in Afghanistan and two have been wounded. Five soldiers and two soldiers wounded in two separate incidents which have occurred very quickly after each other. These incidents...

MON 20 AUGUST 2012

Australia's sorrow at New Zealand's loss

Today I extend Australia’s condolences to the nation and people of New Zealand, who have suffered another grievous loss in Afghanistan with the death of three brave soldiers in a bomb blast overnight. This news is particularly painful coming just two weeks after the deaths of...

MON 20 AUGUST 2012

Speech at the Australian Women's Land Army Reception, Parliament House

E & OE [ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OMITTED] Women of the Australian Women’s Land Army, I’ve been told to refer to you as the Land Army Girls. So from the Head Girl, I’m very pleased to be with you today for this very, very special...

TUE 17 JULY 2012

Uruzgan province begins transition

The Australian Government today welcomed the formal start of transition to Afghan-led security responsibility in Uruzgan province, where the majority of Australian military personnel in Afghanistan are based.   ...

MON 16 JULY 2012

Transcript of doorstop interview, Fremantle

PM: It’s a great pleasure to be here today at Carnegie Wave, which is showing the way to a clean energy future. We know that the temperature of our world is rising and that that is climate change. We know that the last decade was the hottest one on record, and that climate...