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FRI 06 JULY 2012

Multi-Party Reference Group

The Government today announced the membership of the Multi-Party Reference Group which will support the work of the independent expert panel in examining ways to stop people risking their lives on dangerous journeys by boat.  ...

SUN 01 JULY 2012

Transcript of joint doorstop interview, Melbourne

PM: I'm here today with Jenny Macklin and we're actually in her local electorate, so thank you very much Jenny, and to everybody who has come in to say hello today. It is 1 July, carbon pricing starts today, and Australians can look around and see the sky hasn't fallen...

FRI 29 JUNE 2012

Transcript of interview with David Koch and Melissa Doyle, Sunrise

HOST: We’re joined now by the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. Good morning to you. Look your Minister is absolutely right, we have had a gutful full of this. We’re sick of the politics. Why won’t you budge on Malaysia? PM: The Bill that’s...

THU 28 JUNE 2012

Transcript of joint press conference, Canberra

PM: Yesterday the House of Representatives passed legislation which would have enabled our nation to have offshore processing of asylum seekers and refugees. That bill before the House of Representatives was a compromise between the Government’s plans and the Opposition’s...

THU 28 JUNE 2012

Transcript of interview with Neil Mitchell, 3AW

HOST: The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, good morning. PM: Good morning Neil. HOST: Prime Minister, you’ve been in charge for two years, boats are arriving in record numbers, horrendous number of deaths. Do you accept some responsibility for what’s happening...

THU 28 JUNE 2012

Transcript of interview with Sabra Lane, ABC AM

HOST: Prime Minister, good morning and welcome. PM: Good morning Sabra. HOST: What can you tell us about these latest reports of another boat in distress in Indonesian waters?   ...

THU 28 JUNE 2012

Transcript of interview with Georgie Gardner, Today

HOST: To discuss this further, Prime Minister Julia Gillard joins us now from Canberra. Prime Minister, good morning to you. PM: Good morning. HOST: Before we get to the deal, there was more tragedy of course about this time yesterday with another boat capsizing off Christmas...

WED 27 JUNE 2012

Transcript of joint press conference, Canberra

PM: I’m here this evening with the Minister for Immigration Chris Bowen and the Minister for Home Affairs Jason Clare. As Australians know we have seen another day where there has been a tragedy at sea. I will ask the Minister for Home Affairs to update the Australian people on...

WED 27 JUNE 2012

Statement to the House of Representatives, Canberra

I advise the House that a major rescue operation is underway right now, 107 nautical miles north of Christmas Island and 100 nautical miles south of Indonesia. As this Parliament sits, we have planes in the air, merchant vessels on the scene, and HMAS Maitland has arrived. ...

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...

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