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SUN 01 JULY 2012

Australia's clean energy future

  The Gillard Government has achieved a major milestone in its plan for Australia’s clean energy future with today being the first day major greenhouse gas emitters will be required to pay for their pollution. ...

SAT 30 JUNE 2012

Transcript of joint doorstop interview, Melbourne

  PM: It’s great to be here this morning with the Minister for Families, Jenny Macklin and with Laura Smyth, our local member here in La Trobe, and we’ve had the opportunity to meet with some local residents and talk to them about the start of carbon pricing...

MON 25 JUNE 2012

Transcript of interview with Lyndall Curtis, ABC24

HOST: Prime Minister, welcome to ABC News 24. PM: Thank you Lyndal. HOST: It’s been four and a half years since Labor came to Government. There are people still dying making the dangerous journey from, usually, Indonesia to Australia to seek asylum. Do you have any...

FRI 22 JUNE 2012

Address at signing of a partnership between Pacific Hydro and Vale, Rio de Janeiro

I have been here in Brazil over the last few days attending the Rio+20 event and it’s a great credit to Brazil that an international meeting of that magnitude has been held in this wonderful city. ...

FRI 22 JUNE 2012

Transcript of doorstop interview, Rio de Janeiro

PM: As the Rio+20 conference draws to an end I want to speak about what has happened here over the last few days and what has been achieved. This meeting is 20 years on from the original Rio Earth Summit – the time when the world came together to first address, through this...

THU 21 JUNE 2012

Address to the Rio+20 Nature Conservancy "Blue and Green Economy" Breakfast, Rio de Janeiro

Your Excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. I welcome this historic opportunity to join with leaders of like-minded countries to renew our commitment to the marine environments of the world. ...

THU 21 JUNE 2012

Intervention at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio de Janeiro

In the twenty years since the first Earth Summit, the world’s great environmental challenges have grown. Biodiversity is being lost.   Many oceans and forests are threatened. ...

THU 21 JUNE 2012

Australia to support sustainability of the Asia-Pacific Oceans

Australia will commit $33 million to help developing countries in the Asia‑Pacific sustainably manage their oceans, fisheries and coasts. Speaking at a Blue Economy event co-hosted by the President of Indonesia and the Prime Minister of Grenada, the Prime Minister said that oceans...

WED 20 JUNE 2012

Transcript of joint press conference, Rio de Janeiro

UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL: I had a very good meeting with the Prime Minister of Australia. It has been a great pleasure for me and an honour to work with the Prime Minister during many months, not only on regional issues but global issues. ...

WED 20 JUNE 2012

Speech at the launch of the Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Land and Sea Managers Network, Rio de Janeiro

Thank you very much and thank you to our ambassador for that introduction. Can I welcome the support of our co-hosts for this event: Norway, New Zealand, Tokelau and Brazil – thank you very much for your support. If I was home in Australia I would commence this speech...

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