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MON 20 FEBRUARY 2012

Towards a new school funding system

Funding arrangements in Australian schools are failing to get the best results for students, are complicated and lack transparency, the first comprehensive report into school funding since 1973 has found. The Review of Funding for Schooling was undertaken by a panel of eminent...

SUN 19 FEBRUARY 2012

Transcript of doorstop interview, Darwin

PM: It’s a great pleasure to be here with Northern Territorian and Minister Warren Snowdon. It’s been a great honour today to attend the events here to commemorate the bombing of Darwin 70 years ago. As a Government we deliberately sort to ensure that this day would be a...

SUN 19 FEBRUARY 2012

Transcript of interview with Samantha Armytage, Weekend Sunrise

HOST: Prime Minister, welcome to Weekend Sunrise. PM: Thank you very much. HOST: Now tell us, why should Australians care about today's anniversary? ...

SUN 19 FEBRUARY 2012

Remarks on the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Darwin, Darwin.

Nineteen forty-two was the darkest year in Australia’s history. And if that darkest year had a darkest day, it was February 19. It was the unimaginable day. Beginning a series of raids around Northern Australia that together marked the first time our land has...

SUN 19 FEBRUARY 2012

Speech to the USS Peary wreath laying ceremony, Darwin

In early 1942, our nation had been engaged in hostilities for two and a half years, but this was the moment the reality of war hit home. February 19. Our date of infamy. Australia’s Pearl Harbor. Today we stand “safe on freedom's vantage...

SUN 19 FEBRUARY 2012

First national commemoration for the bombing of Darwin

On the 70th Anniversary of the Bombing of Darwin, Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Veterans’ Affairs Minister Warren Snowdon, encouraged all Australians to reflect on the dark day when our nation was first attacked on home soil – 19 February 1942. ...

SAT 18 FEBRUARY 2012

Australia to provide historical film and images to East Timor

The Australian Government will provide East Timor with a collection of historically significant and rare films and photographs to help celebrate its 10th anniversary of independence. Prime Minister Julia Gillard today presented East Timor's Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão with...

FRI 17 FEBRUARY 2012

Transcript of doorstop interview, Canberra

PM: We’re here today for a special celebration of the Trade Training Centre that will not only serve this school, but three other schools. As I said when I addressed the assembly, this is about every child’s education, making sure they get the opportunities and choices they want to...

FRI 17 FEBRUARY 2012

Trade Training Centres offer students new career pathways

The Australian Government has successfully built 160 new Trade Training Centres around Australia in just four years - providing thousands of students with new skills and career opportunities. ...

WED 15 FEBRUARY 2012

Prime Ministerial Statement: "Closing the Gap"

Mr Speaker, in the long story of relations among the peoples of our nation –the story of our struggles with each other and of our struggles to reconcile – there have been some good days which we will not forget. ...

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