Press Office

THU 28 MARCH 2013

Celebrating a Greater Eastern Highway

Prime Minister Julia Gillard today joined Member for Perth Stephen Smith and WA Senator Glenn Sterle to officially open a new section of the Great Eastern Highway between Kooyong Road and the Tonkin Highway. ...

WED 27 MARCH 2013

Transcript of Joint Doorstop Interview

PM: We’ve talked today to school kids who here are getting Certificate I qualifications – that is actual recognised trade qualifications in areas like bricklaying. The first certificate that you can get that they can then show an employer to show that they’ve had...

WED 27 MARCH 2013

Transcript of Interview with Geoff Hutchison

HOST: Prime Minister Julia Gillard, welcome to the program. PM: Thank you very much, good to be here. HOST: Nice to have you here. Before we get started today, I wonder if you might be able to put to bed some rumours about superannuation. ...

TUE 26 MARCH 2013

Transcript of Doorstop Interview

PM: A big thank you to Kolbe Catholic College, to the students over here and our principal, Robyn Miller for making us feel welcome.   I'm here with Gary Gray, this is actually his community and his part of the world. He has just been promoted to Minister for...

TUE 26 MARCH 2013

Transcript of Interview with Howard Sattler

HOST: Prime Minister Julia Gillard is visiting Perth for the first time in about four months, I think. She was absent during the state election campaign, we don’t know quite why. We were told that the Labor Party here said don’t come; Tony Abbott came and the...

TUE 26 MARCH 2013

Transcript of Interview with Sabra Lane

HOST: Julia Gillard, good morning and welcome to AM. PM: Good morning Sabra. HOST: Newspoll shows that your Government is heading for electoral oblivion and you must concede that with the primary vote of 30 per cent and a two-party preferred vote of 42 per cent, it means an...

TUE 26 MARCH 2013

Special Operations Units Awarded Battle Honour

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Minister for Defence Stephen Smith today announced that the Australian Army’s Special Operations Command will receive the first Army Battle Honour since the end of the Vietnam War. ...

TUE 26 MARCH 2013

Community Cabinet coming to Ringwood

Prime Minister Julia Gillard will host the Government’s 40th Community Cabinet meeting in Ringwood on Wednesday 17 April. ...

TUE 26 MARCH 2013

Transition Milestone in Uruzgan Province

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Minister for Defence Stephen Smith today welcomed the decision by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to close Multi National Base – Tarin Kot in Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan at the end of this year. ...

MON 25 MARCH 2013

Interview with Leigh Sales

HOST: Prime Minister, thank you for joining us. PM: My pleasure. HOST: After recent events, aren’t Australians well within their rights to conclude that the Gillard Government is a dysfunctional mess that deserves to be consigned to opposition as soon as...