Press Office

TUE 30 NOVEMBER 2010

Prime Ministerial Statement

The Prime Minister today spoke with Ted Baillieu to congratulate him on his election victory in Victoria. The Prime Minister also congratulated John Brumby on his time as Victorian Premier, and on a hard-fought campaign. John Brumby has made an enormous contribution to...

MON 29 NOVEMBER 2010

2011 will be a year of delivery - and decision: Speech to the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia, Sydney

Friends. Parliament sits for the last time today after an extraordinary year in politics. I go from here to Canberra for a historic vote in the House of Representatives. It is nearly twenty years since Professor Fred Hilmer's landmark report on competition policy was...

MON 29 NOVEMBER 2010

Transcript of joint press conference

PM: Accompanied by the Leader of Government Business, the Leader of the House and Minister for Infrastructure, Anthony Albanese, and by the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy. Today in the Parliament the Government has delivered an historic...

THU 25 NOVEMBER 2010

Transcript of interview with Lyndal Curtis, ABC AM

 CURTIS: Prime Minister, welcome to AM. PM: Thank you. CURTIS: If we can go to New Zealand first, two Australians are presumed to have died in the mining tragedy there. Is there any help you can offer the families? PM: Certainly, our condolences go to the...

WED 24 NOVEMBER 2010

Transcript of joint press conference

PM: I'm here with the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, and we are here predominately to talk about the National Broadband Network, and of course the Telstra structural separation Bill in the Senate, but I do, before making those statements, want to make a...

SAT 20 NOVEMBER 2010

Transcript of press conference - Lisbon, Portugal

PM: I'm here with Stephen Smith at the conclusion of the meetings today about the future strategy in Afghanistan, and the meeting today has been an important meeting for Afghanistan and for Australia. 48 countries have met to discuss the future strategy in Afghanistan. Now,...

THU 18 NOVEMBER 2010

Transcript of interview with Fran Kelly, ABC Radio National

HOST: The Prime Minister joins us now. Julia Gillard, good morning. PM: Good morning, Fran. HOST: Prime Minister, this NATO summit, will it formally agree to the 2014 timeline for handing over security, or transitioning, as we like to say now, to the Afghan national security...

THU 18 NOVEMBER 2010

Australia will not abandon Afghanistan - Speech to the House of Representatives, Canberra

Mr Speaker, opening this parliamentary debate on 19 October I said: I know the professional soldiers of the Australian Defence Force are proud people. They offer their lives for us. They embrace wartime sacrifice as their highest duty. In return, we owe them our wisdom. Our...

TUE 16 NOVEMBER 2010

Hard work brings reward - Speech at the Victorian ALP campaign launch, Bendigo

I am so glad to be back in Victoria. I am so glad to be here in Bendigo. I am so proud to support this Government in this campaign. A government with its best years still to come. This election matters to Victoria. The Liberals would be bad for our state's future. They don't...

SUN 14 NOVEMBER 2010

Transcript of press conference Yokohama, Japan

PM: The APEC Summit has drawn to an end and I wanted to take this opportunity to summarise what has been achieved. Australia was proudly a founding member of APEC, because we saw the economic advantages of greater trade and economic engagement in our region. Here we are 21 years later...

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