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FRI 22 OCTOBER 2010

Prime Minister's overseas trip extended to Malaysia and Indonesia

The Prime Minister will travel to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Jakarta, Indonesia following the East Asian Summit in Vietnam at the end of this month. From 31 October to 1 November the Prime Minister will make an official visit to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to hold meetings with Prime...

WED 20 OCTOBER 2010

Transcript of joint press conference

PM: I'm joined today by the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, and today the Government is reintroducing a landmark Bill that will facilitate the separation of the retail and wholesale arms of Telstra for the benefit of consumers. Those reforms to the...

THU 14 OCTOBER 2010

Transcript of joint press conference, Melbourne

PM: It's great to be back home in Melbourne and to be here at Austin Hospital. I'm joined by the Minister for Health, Nicola Roxon, and by Jenny Macklin, obviously one of our of ministers that's here today in her capacity as the local member for this area. Yesterday I was...

SAT 09 OCTOBER 2010

New funding for institute to support carbon capturing efforts in developing nations

The Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Minister for Resources and Energy, Martin Ferguson today welcomed a grant of US$500,000 from the US State Department to the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute. Alongside energy efficiency measures, carbon capture and storage (CCS)...

FRI 08 OCTOBER 2010

Transcript of interview with Lisa Wilkinson, Today Show

HOST: Good morning to you and welcome home. PM: Good morning Lisa. Nice to be here. HOST: Good to be back? PM: Yes, lovely to be here. HOST: You said while you were away that there are many other things that you would rather be doing than travelling the...

THU 07 OCTOBER 2010

Transcript of press conference Canberra

PM: Well I'm here with Minister Greg Combet and obviously we've just come from the first meeting of the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee and that meeting was attended by me and by Minister Combet. We were joined by Senator Bob Brown and Senator Christine Milne from the Australian...

TUE 05 OCTOBER 2010

Transcript of interview with Karen Middleton, SBS World News

HOST: Prime Minister thanks for joining us. You joked in your dinner speech about your accent, now you're not really having trouble being understood here are you? PM: No I'm not, but I thought a joke was worthwhile so I did say even the English language speakers might want to...

TUE 05 OCTOBER 2010

Transcript of doorstop interview, Brussels

PM: Well, thank you very much, and I know many of you have probably got flights to get, so we'll keep this as brief as possible. Can I say, obviously today I've attended the Asia-Europe Meeting, and it has concluded. Today has also afforded me the opportunity to continue some...

MON 04 OCTOBER 2010

Transcript of joint press conference, Brussels

SECRETARY GENERAL RASMUSSEN: Good morning. I am very grateful for the opportunity to meet Prime Minister Gillard today. Welcome to NATO Headquarters. As the largest non-NATO contributor of troops in Afghanistan, and indeed one of the largest contributors overall, Australia remains an...