E&OE…. Topics: Labor’s new electricity tax, Great Barrier Reef EMMA GRIFFITHS: Now, the Federal Environment Minister is Greg Hunt. Hello Minister. GREG HUNT: And hello Emma. EMMA GRIFFITHS: So you heard Mark Butler there saying that this does not amount to another tax, and that what we've heard from the Prime Minister today and seen…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Great Barrier Reef, CSIRO, Sydney light rail MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: For more on the funding of Great Barrier Reef protection programs, I was joined earlier by the Federal Environment Minister, Greg Hunt. Well Greg Hunt, as we heard the Barrier Reef Water Resource Taskforce has recommended a figure that needs to be spent over…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Great Barrier Reef, coral bleaching CHRIS BATH: Environment Minister Greg Hunt has spent the day in Far North Queensland talking to the community, tourism operators, farmers and scientists about the Great Barrier Reef. He flew there to personally inspect the latest coral bleaching event, and he joins us on the line now. Minister,…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Paris Climate Change Agreement GREG HUNT: Look, I'm really delighted that Australia's been able to not only just sign on to the Paris Agreement, but we have committed to the process of beginning ratification immediately and to seek to ratify and complete that process this year. That puts Australia really right in the…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Paris Climate Change Agreement, Great Barrier Reef MIRIAM COROWA: Australia is one of more than 170 countries signing the agreement in the largest one day signing of an international deal in UN history. Environment Minister Greg Hunt joins us now from New York. Thank you for joining us Minister. GREG HUNT: Pleasure. MIRIAM…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: CSIRO, Great Barrier Reef, Paris Agreement TONY JONES: First we're joined by the Environment Minister, Greg Hunt. Later tonight he'll hop on a plane to New York to sign the historic Paris climate agreement. He joins us now in Melbourne. Thanks for being there. GREG HUNT: Pleasure, Tony. TONY JONES: Now does the…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Great Barrier Reef, coral bleaching GREG HUNT: It's absolutely clear that there is a severe coral bleaching event occurring not just in the Great Barrier Reef but throughout many parts of the Pacific. We took steps early to warn of the risk. There were some who said that the worst had passed. We…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Election timing, budget, Paris Agreement, Mornington Shire Council TOM ELLIOT: Greg Hunt, good afternoon. GREG HUNT: And good afternoon Tom. TOM ELLIOT: Are we having an election on July 2? GREG HUNT: Yes. TOM ELLIOT: So it's done now is it? GREG HUNT: Yeah, so the Prime Minister made a statement to Parliament…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Infrastructure investment in Victoria, union corruption, banking sector, protests GREG HUNT: On behalf of the Victorian division and Victorians everywhere, I want to thank the Prime Minister and the Treasurer for their commitment to a Victorian Infrastructure Plan. This is a plan to help urban Victoria, Melbourne, suburbs, to reduce congestion. There’s a…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Turnbull Government, Australian Building and Construction Commission, union corruption TOM ELLIOTT: Our next guest is the Federal Environment Minister and a regular contributor to this program, Greg Hunt. Good afternoon. GREG HUNT: And good afternoon Tom. TOM ELLIOTT: Now what's going on at the moment with all these tax plans that get floated…
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