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SUN 10 JULY 2011

Putting a price on carbon pollution

Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Wayne Swan and Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Greg Combet today announced the Australian Government’s carbon price. ...

SAT 09 JULY 2011

'The courage to be new', Speech to the New South Wales Branch of the ALP State Conference, Sydney

Thanks so much Michael Lee for that generous introduction. I begin with honouring the Gadigal people, the traditional owners of this land - we walk with you on the road of Reconciliation together. ...

THU 07 JULY 2011

Transcript of interview with David Speers, Sky News

HOST: Prime Minister welcome, I want to start with the live cattle trade, it’s now been reopened to Indonesia, are you able to say now that no Australian cattle will be subject to the sort of brutal slaughter that we saw in the Four Corners program? ...

MON 04 JULY 2011

Government to announce price on pollution

This weekend the Gillard Government plans to announce a price on pollution as the central element of a comprehensive policy to tackle climate change, cut pollution and drive the transformation of the Australian economy to a clean energy future. After hearing a report on the...

MON 04 JULY 2011

Transcript of press conference, Canberra

PM: As Parliament starts this week, inevitably we will be continuing to debate climate change and pricing carbon. That debate will not only happen in Parliament House - it will happen around the nation. Debate is a good thing, but debate needs to be informed by the facts. For our nation to...

SUN 03 JULY 2011

Transcript of interview with Barrie Cassidy, Insiders

HOST: Prime Minister good morning, welcome. PM: Good morning Barrie HOST: Well Tony Abbott’s talking there about a shattering defeat for Labor off the back of the latest opinion polls. Does that sort of rhetoric make your nervous? ...

THU 30 JUNE 2011

Transcript of joint press conference, Darwin

PM: I’m here with the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory Paul Henderson. I’ve had the opportunity to tour this wonderful training facility with the Minister for School Education, Peter Garrett, and with Chris Evans, who covers tertiary education and skills education like what...

TUE 28 JUNE 2011

Transcript of interview with Lyndal Curtis, ABC24

HOST: Prime Minister, welcome to the studio. PM: Good morning, Lyndal. HOST: If we can start with the Newspoll first. Anthony Albanese said last night that Labor’s internal polling reflects the published polling. Presumably, then, your polling is telling you your primary vote’s...

MON 27 JUNE 2011

Transcript of interview with Jon Faine, ABC Melbourne

HOST: Prime Minister, good morning to you. PM: Good morning, Jon. HOST: We’ll come to carbon tax problems in a moment, but I understand today you’re going to get for your anniversary a writ from Big Tobacco, who are opposed to your plain packaging legislation. Do...