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FRI 16 SEPTEMBER 2011

Remarks at the unveiling of Curtin and Chifley sculptures, Canberra

  Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, friends and fellow Australians. In September last year I was in Ben Chifley’s Bathurst home. In a room where the self-educated author of Labor’s greatest words – “the light on the hill”...

FRI 02 SEPTEMBER 2011

Transcript of interview with Madonna King, ABC Brisbane

HOST: Prime Minister good morning and welcome to 612 ABC Brisbane. PM: Good morning Madonna. HOST: Is it in Labor’s best interests for you to remain leader? PM: Madonna I’m not going anywhere, I’ve got a lot of things to do, I work every day to...

MON 29 AUGUST 2011

Steve Gibbons

The Prime Minister today congratulated Steve Gibbons MP on his long service to the Bendigo community following his announcement that he will not seek preselection for the Federal election due in 2013. As the longest serving federal MP for Bendigo since Federation, Steve leaves a...

FRI 26 AUGUST 2011

Transcript of interview with Leon Compton, ABC Statewide Tasmania

HOST: Prime Minister Julia Gillard, good morning to you. PM: Good morning. HOST: And thank you for coming in this morning. Significant amounts of health union money spent on funding prostitutes, many of the low wage workers that fund those health union dues live here in...

FRI 26 AUGUST 2011

Robert Garran Memorial Oration to the Institute of Public Administration Australian National Conference

Today we gather to honour the central role of good public administration and sound public policy in shaping our nation’s future. Nobody represents those things more completely than our first great public servant, Robert Garran. Garran was the “trusted confidant...

FRI 19 AUGUST 2011

Transcript of joint press conference, Canberra

PM: Can I start by starting where our first discussions were in COAG today, when COAG met this morning we’d just been informed that Paul Lockyer, Gary Ticehurst and John Bean had lost their lives, so COAG took a moment to reflect on that. They are known to First Ministers and we did want...

THU 18 AUGUST 2011

Transforming industry for a greener future

Australia’s leading clean technology companies were showcased today at an event launched by Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Innovation Minister Senator Kim Carr. The Clean Technology Showcase presented work from innovative Australian companies who are already at the...

FRI 12 AUGUST 2011

WA Choir strikes a chord for CHOGM

Prime Minister Julia Gillard today welcomed the participation of students from Perth high schools in a combined choir that will perform during the Opening Ceremony of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2011.  The full 100-piece student choir will be drawn from Public,...

MON 08 AUGUST 2011

Mike Rann

I would like to thank Mike Rann for his service to the people of South Australia as Premier, following the announcement today that he will retire as Premier on 20 October this year. Mike has made an historic contribution to his state, as Premier since 2002 and before that as Labor...

SUN 07 AUGUST 2011

Address to the Tasmanian branch of the ALP State Conference, Hobart

Thanks Nick for that warm Tasmanian welcome. It’s so good to be among so many friends. Some friends I’ve known for so many years that it’s best we pass over the detailed chronology, some friends I made here last night and I see again today. ...

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