E&OE…. Topics: Bill Shorten’s latest plan to hike power bills, passing of Don Randall STEVE CHASE: Greg Hunt, you’ve seen on the front page of some of the Fairfax papers today, some scant details of the Renewable Energy Target we’re told Bill Shorten is going to announce to the Conference this weekend. Does it fill…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Bill Shorten’s latest plan to hike power bills DAVID SPEERS: Greg Hunt, thank you for your time. Now, you say that increasing the Renewable Energy Target to 50 per cent as proposed by Labor will push up power prices. Now, what do you base that on? GREG HUNT: Well, it's not just me.…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Entitlements, Shenhua Watermark mine approval, Labor’s plan to bring back a carbon tax, post-2020 emissions reduction targets BARRIE CASSIDY: Ok, next, our studio guest, the Environment Minister Greg Hunt, and while he joins us, here's the Prime Minister yesterday on the controversy around the Speaker Bronwyn Bishop. Excerpt begins TONY ABBOTT: Look, I…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Clean Energy Finance Corporation, Labor’s plan to bring back a carbon tax, Shenhua Watermark mine approval MONIQUE WRIGHT: Well, it's been a heated week of environmental issues. It started with the environment under fire for pulling the plug on household solar and wind farms, but by Wednesday the Opposition had its own headache,…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: 30th Anniversary of the hand-over of Uluru, entitlements GREG HUNT: Look, I'm honoured and delighted to be here at Uluru-Kata Tjuta with Senator Jo Lindgren. Uluru is a sacred site for the Anangu, it's an iconic site for Indigenous Australia and it's at the heart of our self and landscape for all of…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Threatened Species Summit, entitlements, Clean Energy Finance Corporation, renewable energy, climate change RAFAEL EPSTEIN: The Environment Minister Greg Hunt joins us, he's been at the zoo at another function, he joins us on the line. Greg Hunt, good afternoon. GREG HUNT: And good afternoon Raf, I've literally just stepped off stage so I…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Threatened Species Summit, National Threatened Species Strategy, Shenhua Watermark mine approval PATRICIA KARVELAS: Today the Environment Minister Greg Hunt launched a new strategy for protecting threatened species. $6.5 million dollars will be used to protect 20 mammals, 20 birds and a range of plants. That includes the orange-bellied parrot, the numbat, and the…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Threatened Species Summit, National Threatened Species Strategy, Shenhua Watermark mine approval, Labor’s plan to bring back a carbon tax. GREG HUNT: So I’m delighted to announce that we are setting a goal of halt and reverse the decline in our threatened species. This is about protecting the bilby, the bettong, the bandicoot, some…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Shenhua Watermark mine approval, Labor’s plans to bring back a carbon tax ALAN JONES: Minister Hunt's on the line, Greg Hunt good morning. GREG HUNT: Good morning Alan. ALAN JONES: Can I just raise a couple of things from this Independent Expert Scientific Committee report which they've compiled, and for the benefit of…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: National Clean Air Champions, Labor’s plan to bring back the carbon tax GREG HUNT: I'm delighted to be here today with John and Helen Taylor and to announce that they will be National Clean Air Champions. That means they are part of the National Clean Air Agreement. We are working with the States…
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