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SUN 17 JULY 2011

Supporting South Australian pensioners and self-funded retirees

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Minister for Mental Health and Ageing Mark Butler today met with local pensioners in Adelaide to discuss the Gillard Government’s household assistance package and how it will support older Australians. More than 2.2 million age pensioners and...

SUN 17 JULY 2011

Transcript of interview with Laurie Oakes, Weekend Today

OAKES: Prime Minister welcome to the program. PM: Good morning Laurie. OAKES: We’ve got a debt crisis in Europe, in America unemployment’s rising, there’s even talk of a recession, in Australia we’ve got a collapse in consumer confidence.  How...

SAT 16 JULY 2011

Transcript of doorstop interview, La Trobe Valley

PM: I’m in the Latrobe Valley today and I’ve had the opportunity to speak to the workers at Hazelwood as well as to meet with representatives of the relevant unions, the CFMEU and the Metal Workers Union and I’m looking forward to continuing my discussions with local...

THU 14 JULY 2011

"A great clean energy future, a great reform agenda", Address to the National Press Club, Canberra

Thanks for that kind introduction. The issues that have brought me here to the Press Club as Prime Minister have been big ones. Laying out my vision for Australia in a national election campaign and making my case in the leaders’ debate. Reflecting on the formation of a new...

WED 13 JULY 2011

Transcript of doorstop interview, Brisbane

PM: Thank you. I’m here in Brisbane today, in the great state of Queensland. Queensland’s got a lot to lose from climate change. This is a state with fantastic natural assets like the Great Barrier Reef. This is a state with a long coastline. And this is a state that in the past...

WED 13 JULY 2011

Transcript of interview with Madonna King, ABC Brisbane

HOST: Prime Minister, good morning and welcome to Brisbane. PM: Good morning Madonna. HOST: One from me which encapsulates many that have come in overnight, without political speak? PM: Sure. HOST: Why did you say there would be no carbon tax six days before...

WED 13 JULY 2011

New funding for ACCC to crack down on misleading carbon price claims

The Gillard Government today announced new funding for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to crack down on any business that seeks to gouge its customers by making misleading claims about the impact of putting a price on carbon pollution. The ACCC will use its...

WED 13 JULY 2011

Transcript of interview with Aaron Stevens, ABC Capricornia

HOST: We’ll get to answer some of your questions directly from the Prime Minister, who joins me now. Good morning. PM: Good morning. HOST: You are on this tour selling the carbon pricing scheme. Are the people you’re talking to still struggling with the whole...

TUE 12 JULY 2011

Transcript of interview with Leon Byner, 5AA

HOST: Julia, thank you for being on the show this morning. PM: Good morning Leon. HOST: Now, first of all, let’s talk about the Newspoll and that is that it’s looking pretty ordinary for you at the moment, to say the least and I guess if it doesn’t get any...

TUE 12 JULY 2011

Transcript of interview with Neil Mitchell, 3AW

HOST: Thank you so much for your time. PM: No problems. HOST: You’ve launched, and I apologise Anne we’ll get back to you. You’ve launched major changes here and there are doubts about whether the compensation will be enough as international uncertainty on...

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