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MON 16 JULY 2012

Wave energy comes to Garden Island, Perth

The Department of Defence and Carnegie Wave Energy have signed power supply and grid connection agreements which will allow Defence to purchase all the electricity produced by a wave power facility to be established on Garden Island, the home of HMAS Stirling. ...

TUE 03 JULY 2012

Transcript of joint press conference, Darwin

GENERAL HURLEY: Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I'm deeply saddened to inform you that an Australian soldier serving with the Special Operations Task Group in Afghanistan was killed during an operating on the Chorah Valley region of Uruzgan Province yesterday morning, local...

THU 14 JUNE 2012

Transcript of joint press conference with the NATO Secretary General

PM: Mr Secretary-General, welcome to Parliament House and welcome to Australia. You’ve come a long we to see us I note and I hope that the warmth of our welcome, perhaps not the Canberra air, but the personal warmth of our welcome means that all of those air miles were worth...

MON 21 MAY 2012

Transcript of joint press conference, Chicago

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...

SUN 20 MAY 2012

Comprehensive long-term Partnership between Australia and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

1. The Government of Australia and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, hereinafter known as Australia and Afghanistan respectively and collectively as “Governments”, share a commitment to peace, democracy and development, and reaffirm their common respect for...

SUN 20 MAY 2012

Transcript of doorstop interview, Chicago

President Karzai and I signed a long-term partnership between Australia and Afghanistan. As I've said to the Australian people on more than one occasion, Australia will stay engaged with Afghanistan to the end of this decade at least, but the nature of our engagement will change after...

SUN 20 MAY 2012

Australia and Afghanistan sign long-term partnership

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai have today signed a long-term partnership between Australia and Afghanistan. This Comprehensive Long-Term Partnership is a clear demonstration of Australia’s long-term commitment to supporting...

SAT 19 MAY 2012

Transcript of doorstop interview, Chicago

PM: I’m here in Chicago with Minister Smith and we will be attending a major international summit on the future of Afghanistan. We came to Chicago from Townsville, where we had the opportunity to speak to some of our soldiers who will soon be deployed in Afghanistan. We were...

SAT 19 MAY 2012

Transcript of doorstop interview, Townsville

  PM: I’m here in Townsville with Minister Smith. We’ve had a very special opportunity to talk to troops who are deploying to Afghanistan. They will be going over the coming few weeks, and we've had the opportunity to say to them thank you very much for...

WED 16 MAY 2012

Australia commits to ongoing stability in Afghanistan

Australia will contribute US$100 million annually for three years from 2015 as part of international efforts to help sustain and support Afghan National Security Forces beyond the transition process.  ...

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