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WED 25 JULY 2012

Transcript of interview with Leigh Sales, 7.30

HOST: Prime Minister, thank you for making time for us. PM: Thank you Leigh. HOST: Can you just give me a figure, how many Australians would stand to benefit from a fully functioning National Disability Insurance Scheme, just a ball park figure? PM: There are...

TUE 17 JULY 2012

Transcript of doorstop interview, Perth

HOST: Prime Minister, good morning. PM: Good morning. HOST: Welcome again to 720 Mornings. Welcome to ABC Perth. Unfortunately I think you’re Labor Opposition Leader here in Western Australia sees you as somebody who’s not so welcome. It seems you’re bad for...

TUE 17 JULY 2012

Transcript of interview with John McGlue, ABC Perth

HOST: Prime Minister, good morning. PM: Good morning. HOST: Welcome again to 720 Mornings. Welcome to ABC Perth. Unfortunately I think you’re Labor Opposition Leader here in Western Australia sees you as somebody who’s not so welcome. It seems you’re bad for...

TUE 17 JULY 2012

Transcript of interview with John Burgess, 6iX

HOST: The Prime Minister of Australia, and I’m delighted to have her on the program this morning, Julia Gillard. Good morning Prime Minister. PM: Good morning John. HOST: How are you today? PM: I’m really well. ...

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...

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. ...

THU 12 JULY 2012

Transcript of doorstop interview, Townsville

  PM: I’m very pleased to be here in Townsville. I’m joined by our Senator for Queensland, Jan McLucas who’s very well known in this part of Queensland, and also by the CEO of our National Broadband Network Company, Mike Quigley. ...

SUN 08 JULY 2012

Transcript of joint doorstop interview, Deception Bay

PM: It’s a great pleasure to be here in Queensland with Deputy Prime Minister, Wayne Swan and particularly to be in the federal electorate of Petrie with our local member, Yvette D’Ath. People today are enjoying a barbecue out here in this beautiful part of the...

FRI 06 JULY 2012

Transcript of doorstop interview, Ulverstone

PM: I’m here in Tasmania today. I’m with Sid Sidebottom, our Member for Braddon. It’s a picture perfect Tassie day – typical – and it is fantastic to be here. We’re here today specifically at Ulverstone High School. ...

WED 04 JULY 2012

"Great reforms endure", speech to the McKell Institute, Sydney

Sixty-five years since Bill McKell last held elected office in this State, his story still has much to tell us. His was a truly remarkable Australian life – from our meanest streets to the very summit of our society – or as his biographer put it, “from boilermaker to...