Press Office

WED 09 MAY 2012

Transcript of interview with Paul Murray, 6PR

HOST: Prime Minister Julia Gillard joins me now. Good morning Prime Minister. ...

WED 09 MAY 2012

Transcript of interview with Amelia Adams, Channel Nine Morning News

HOST: Prime Minister good morning, thank you for joining us. PM: Good morning. HOST: Okay, let’s start with the $5 billion in cash handouts. Is this just a big bribe to win back voters? ...

WED 09 MAY 2012

Transcript of interview with David Spears, Sky News

HOST: Prime Minister, welcome. The centrepiece of this Budget is a $5 billion boost for families. Is this really about winning back the Labor heartland worried about the carbon tax? ...

WED 09 MAY 2012

Transcript of interview with Leon Delaney, 2SM

HOST: Let’s see if we can find out some more answers to those questions, as I welcome to the program the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. Good morning. PM: Good morning Leon. HOST: How very nice to have you on the program again. PM: Good to be with you. ...

WED 09 MAY 2012

Transcript of interview with Tom Ballard and Alex Dyson, Triple J

HOST: It is budget wash-up day and on Triple J this morning we’re very glad to have a special guest in the studio, who better to talk about Australia’s finances than the person in the top job. Please welcome a good friend to the show now, been on a couple of times, Prime Minister...

WED 09 MAY 2012

Transcript of interview with Peter Dick and Mary Collier, 4BC

HOST: Good morning Prime Minister. PM: Good morning. HOST: A busy day, obviously, talking about the budget, and it’s been described by the Treasurer Wayne Swan as ‘Labor to its bootstraps.’ Let’s have a look at where the cuts will be. There will be...

WED 09 MAY 2012

Transcript of interview with Eddie McGuire & Mick Molloy, Triple M Melbourne

HOST: Julia Gillard joins us, good morning Prime Minister. PM: Good morning Eddie. HOST: How are you? PM: I’m very well indeed. ...

WED 09 MAY 2012

Transcript of interview with David Koch, Sunrise

HOST: Prime Minister Julia Gillard joins me now. Good morning to you. PM: Good morning Kochie. HOST: It is a remarkable effort to turn a $44 billion deficit into a $1.5 billion surplus. Tony Abbott says you’re cooking the books, where’s the money coming from? ...

TUE 08 MAY 2012

Spreading the benefits of the boom

The Gillard Government will deliver a$1.8 billion boost to family payments, new tax relief for business and lump sum allowances for struggling Australians as part of a new Benefits of the Boom package that will spread the benefits of the resources boom to all corners of our...

TUE 08 MAY 2012

Helping households with the cost of living

The Gillard Government will deliver much-needed cost of living relief to millions of Australian households in the 2012-13 Budget, including a new Benefits of the Boom package. Despite our strong economic fundamentals, many working Australians are struggling with cost...