Press Office

WED 30 MARCH 2011

Transcript of joint press conference, Perth

PM: [audio break] to update you on some very tragic and sad news for our Defence Force family. I'll turn to the Minister for Defence now. Here we are.   MINISTER SMITH: Thanks very much Prime Minister. As you may well be aware just before midnight last night, near HMAS...

WED 30 MARCH 2011

Transcript of interview, ABC Perth

HOST: Prime Minister good morning to you.   PM: Good morning Geoff.   HOST: Prime Minister just before we got to 10 o’clock I asked our listeners if they would come up with the first question for you today and Steve’s question was ‘Prime...

WED 30 MARCH 2011

Speech to the Opening of the Curtin Family Home, Perth

I am deeply honoured to be here today - honoured as a Prime Minister and honoured as an Australian.   Our nation has produced few more substantial figures than John Joseph Curtin.   Arthur Fadden went so far as to call him “one of the greatest...

WED 30 MARCH 2011

Review of GST distribution

 The Gillard Government has commissioned a review of the distribution of revenue from the Goods and Services Tax to the States and Territories. We have appointed Nick Greiner, John Brumby and Bruce Carter to conduct the review. The review will lead to a simpler, fairer,...

TUE 29 MARCH 2011

New Trade Training Centre for John Forrest Secondary College in Perth

Prime Minister Julia Gillard, School Education Minister Peter Garrett and Federal Member for Perth Stephen Smith joined together today to officially open the new John Forrest Trade Training Centre in Perth.   Prime Minister Gillard said the new Trade Training Centre –...

WED 29 DECEMBER 2010

Transcript of interview, 6PR

  HOST: Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard’s in the studio. Nothing to do with things you may have said in the past. That’s my theme. PM: Well, Howard, as long as you’re not going to ask me to sing, because I think that that would end...