JOINT MEDIA RELEASE WITH KAREN MCNAMARA MP, MEMBER FOR DOBELL Tuggerah Lakes on the New South Wales Central coast will benefit from a $3.3 million boost as part of the Australian Government’s National Landcare Programme. Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt and Federal Member for Dobell, Karen McNamara, today visited the Tuggerah Lakes estuary on the…
JOINT MEDIA RELEASE WITH KAREN MCNAMARA MP, MEMBER FOR DOBELL Young locals on the New South Wales Central Coast are taking up the opportunity to be a part of the Australian Government’s Green Army Programme to help communities deliver important local conservation outcomes. Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt and Federal Member for Dobell, Karen McNamara,…
E&OE…. Topics: IPCC Report, Emissions Reduction Fund GREG HUNT: I welcome the latest report from the IPCC. I think it’s an important contribution to the information in this space. We not only take this seriously, we have just invested over $2.5 billion in cleaning up our environment and in reducing emissions. By contrast, Labor…
E&OE…. Topics: IPCC report, Emissions Reduction Fund ROVE MCMANUS: To help us answer that question we’re speaking with Environment Minister Greg Hunt. Minister, according to this report coal doesn’t have much of a place in the future, so what does that mean for Australia? Are we in trouble? GREG HUNT: Look, as a Dad…
Australian animator and producer Jilli Rose is the 2014 Australian Antarctic Arts Fellow. Each year, the Australian Government awards an Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship to enable those with a non-science focus to experience Antarctica first-hand so they can communicate this unique experience and understanding to other Australians. The recipient of this year’s Fellowship, Jilli Rose,…
E&OE…. Topics: Carbon Farming Initiative, Renewable Energy Target. PETER VAN ONSELEN: To discuss this issue, the big issue of the week, we are joined live out of Melbourne by Greg Hunt, the Environment Minister, thanks very much for being there. GREG HUNT: Pleasure Peter, and good morning Paul. PETER VAN ONSELEN: Can I ask…
E&OE…. Topics: IPCC Report, Emissions Reduction Fund, polls MARK PARTON: We’ve got the Environment Minister on the line right now. Hello Greg. GREG HUNT: And good morning Mark. MARK PARTON: Was he delivering those words to you? GREG HUNT: Well not to my knowledge. But I think it’s a message in particular for me…
This morning the Senate has passed legislation to put in place the Emissions Reduction Fund. For nearly five years the Emissions Reduction Fund has been the centrepiece of the Coalition’s plan to tackle climate change. It is a cost¬ effective and practical approach that will reduce our national emissions without a multi-billion dollar carbon tax.…
E&OE…. Topics: Emissions Reduction Fund GREG HUNT: The Coalition has delivered on our promise to repeal the carbon tax and to reduce electricity prices for the Australian people. We have delivered on our promise to implement an Emissions Reduction Fund to ensure that there is real and practical action to achieve our emissions goals…
E&OE…. Topics: Carbon Farming Initiative GREG HUNT: At the last election, we sought a mandate to abolish the carbon tax. We did that. We did that with the support of the crossbench and I thank the Palmer United Party for their support and savings from the abolition of the carbon tax are being delivered…