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KERRY O'BRIEN, PRESENTER: For more than 30 years, children with disabilities have been integrated into the education mainstream as specialist schools have closed their doors.  It mirrors a change in community attitudes, but hasn't always been embraced by parents of disabled children. Even with one-on-one help in the classroom and visiting ... more

Topics: ACF Report Card, Hazelwood Power Station, Labor’s Plan for Citizens Assemblies, Climate PoliciesFRAN KELLYThe Australian Conservation Foundation has graded the environmental policies of the major parties. So far in this campaign Labor hasn’t done well, it scored 33%. The Coalition has done much worse, scoring just 15% for your environment ... more

E & OE….. Topic: Julia Gillard’s 2020 Summit-meets-the-Copenhagen Conference climate policy announcement GREG HUNTJulia Gillard has failed her own test of leadership. Last year she said ‘no more inquiries’. Last year she said ‘delay is denial’. What we have now is 150 names randomly selected from the phone book. We have the 2020 Summit with the ... more

Presenter: Until now the Federal Government and Julia Gillard have had a trouble free campaign, but the Prime Minister has been embarrassed by a little known Labor candidate who accused Tony Abbott of influencing people to commit suicide.It’s an unwanted distraction for the Government, as it steps up its attack on Tony Abbott’s spending cuts.   ... more

E & OE….. Topics: Findings of the Senate Inquiry into the Government’s Home Insulation Program; reports of a class action by insulation companies against the Government ANDREW MOORE….the Federal Government’s bungled home insulation scheme are planning legal action. The Federal Government announced in May it was offering $15 million in compensation ... more

E&OE…. Topics: Labor’s climate change policy, nuclear energy TONY EASTLEY The Federal Cabinet will gather today in what may be one of the key meetings of Julia Gillard's administration.  Inaction on climate and the deferral of the emissions trading scheme triggered a slide in  Labor's polling and it was also central to Kevin Rudd's demise as ... more

TRANSCRIPTDOORSTOPCOMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENTARY OFFICESSYDNEYFRIDAY, 9TH JULY 2010 E&OE…. Topics: Green Loans debacle, climate change policy, Peter Garrett’s future. GREG HUNTOvernight we have evidence of a hat-trick of failure in the Labor Government’s approach to environmental management.  First, we’ve had the Home Insulation catastrophe.  Secondly, ... more

E&OE…. Topics: Julia Gillard’s East Timor announcement back-flip, damning Green Loans reports, federal election. JON FAINEGreg Hunt is the Shadow Minister for the Environment, Climate Change and Heritage and also a leading figure on Tony Abbott’s front bench. Greg, good morning to you.GREG HUNTGood morning Jon.JON FAINEJulia Gillard now needing to ... more

E&OE….Topics: Gillard back-down on ETS/ Coalition’s Direct Action Plan on Climate ChangeMARIUS BENSONGreg Hunt, Julia Gillard has had something to say on climate change. She says she will have more to say next week. But she has said in broad principle, she believes that individuals in Australia want to do something to reduce their own carbon ... more

E & OE…..Topic:  Rudd-Gillard Government’s flawed Home Insulation ProgramRAY HADLEYThe fallout from the Government’s bungled $2.45 billion Home Insulation scheme continueswith a company charged over the death of that teenage installer.  As I mentioned earlier, the Queensland insulation company will face court over the electrocution of a 16 year ... more

E & OE….. Topics: Rudd/ Gillard Government’s flawed Home Insulation Program, Kevin Rudd STEVE PRICE:I made the point earlier in the show that I could not believe that the new Prime Minister Julia Gillard did not sack Peter Garrett when she had that mini re-shuffle of her ministry yesterday. I thought she was making the tough decisions, that is the ... more

House of Representatives Question Time Home Insulation Program Mr HUNT (3.07 pm) - I refer the now Prime Minister to her central role as Deputy Prime Minister in the design, approval and delivery of the disastrous pink batts program, which has been linked to four tragedies, 174 known house fires, 1,500 potentially deadly electrified roofs and the ... more