05 March 2010
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E&EO
STEVE CHASE Greg Hunt, Greg Combet has acted quickly to refer your concerns to the Auditor General do you give him any credit for that? GREG HUNT Well, a new Minister has finally done the right thing, but we wrote to the Minister on Tuesday about the need for an Auditor General’s inquiry. We wrote to the Auditor General, we wrote about ...
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04 March 2010
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GREG HUNT It now appears as if there is systemic fraud and problems of phantom insulation under the disastrous home insulation program. Just this morning we have received reports of phantom insulation, of claims on a systemic basis for insulation , for the laying of batts that never occurred. I have written to Greg Combet calling for an ...
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04 March 2010
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E&EO RAY HADLEY Now we go to the Shadow Environment Minister who made the running on all of this with us from around August September last year, Greg Hunt. Well Greg, here we come to chapter 382 in the fiasco that was the insulation scheme. GREG HUNT Well, what we’ve got Ray is now the practice of phantom insulation. Overnight, we’ve had reports as ...
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03 March 2010
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Media Releases
The news that the Australian Government is meeting with Japan on whaling, behind closed doors, is another nail in the coffin of this Government’s commitment to put an end to Japanese whaling.
This Government’s willingness to give Japan a green light for commercial whaling effectively issues a death sentence on whales not only in the Southern ...
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26 February 2010
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The Rudd Government’s changes to the Renewable Energy Target scheme are an endorsement of the Coalition’s direct action policy and a realisation that direct action is the best mechanism to reduce carbon emissions.
Labor’s mismanagement of the RET scheme has resulted in a significant drop in the price of Renewable Energy Certificates. This ...
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26 February 2010
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Today’s reshuffle is a bureaucratic fix-up for a political stuff-up. Last week the Prime Minister described Peter Garrett as a first class minister, this week, he’s the minister approving new uranium mines. Today’s announcement confirms that this is a government without honour in the area of ministerial responsibility. This is an egregious ...
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