E&OE…. Topics: Environment portfolio, water reform MICHAEL ROWLAND: Greg Hunt joins us now. Minister, good morning. GREG HUNT: Good morning, Michael. MICHAEL ROWLAND: How do you feel about losing responsibility to Water to the Nationals' Barnaby Joyce? GREG HUNT: Well actually, Water was always with Barnaby Joyce prior to the election. After the election I…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Environment portfolio, water reform, Prime Minister Turnbull, Direct Action JOURNALIST:Were you consulted by this decision by Malcolm Turnbull to give Water to Agriculture? GREG HUNT:Yes, actually. I had extended discussions with Malcolm. We've just had the two greatest years of water reform in Australia's history. My job – which I didn't seek because…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Prime Minister Turnbull, water reform, Environment portfolio JON FAINE: Greg Hunt, good morning to you. GREG HUNT: And good morning Jon. JON FAINE: Have you spoken to Tony Abbott since he was deposed? GREG HUNT:Ah yes – no I had a long talk with him on Monday night. It was a very hard…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Prime Minister Turnbull TOM ELLIOTT:Our next guest, we believe is still the Federal Environment Minister. Greg Hunt, good evening. GREG HUNT:And good evening Tom, talking of combat sports… TOM ELLIOTT:Now, have you – well, that's right, I mean there was a lot of blood let in Canberra last night. Okay, which way did…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Prime Minister Turnbull, Environment portfolio, water reform PATRICIA KARVELAS:Welcome to the show. GREG HUNT:Hello Patricia. PATRICIA KARVELAS:You walked into the ballot with Tony Abbott last night. Did you vote for him? GREG HUNT:Look, I think it's widely known that when Malcolm was leader, I stayed with him out of a sense of strong…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Murray-Darling Basin reforms, investment in irrigation infrastructure, One-Stop Shop reforms, EPBC Act, National Party Conference, Prime Minister, climate change GREG HUNT: Good morning. A decade ago, the Murray-Darling Basin and the Murray River were on a path to unsustainability. Australia's greatest river system and one of the world's great river systems was oversubscribed…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: ‘Blood Lions’ documentary, canned hunting GREG HUNT: Let me speak very, very briefly. Firstly to Lee – thank you for hosting today, it’s deeply appreciated. It’s just nice to be able to do things across party lines like this. And I especially want to acknowledge Donalea and Ian. There’s a line from T.…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Threatened Species Day, Syrian humanitarian crisis GREG HUNT: Thanks very much to Larissa, Lisa and Trent and to everybody who is here. These beautiful but vulnerable Australian creatures bring everybody together. Recently, we held Australia’s first true Threatened Species Summit and out of that Threatened Species Summit came the Threatened Species Strategy –…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: EPBC Act amendments, Syrian humanitarian crisis, Australian economy and budget RAFAEL EPSTEIN:Mr Hunt good afternoon. GREG HUNT:Good afternoon Raf. RAFAEL EPSTEIN:Can I start with – you worried about Alan Jones lining up against you? He did a lot of damage in Queensland. GREG HUNT:Look I respect everybody's views and everybody's arguments but I…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Safeguard mechanism, Emissions Reduction Fund, post-2020 target, timing of federal election FRAN KELLY: Minister good morning, welcome to Breakfast. GREG HUNT:Good morning Fran. FRAN KELLY:Where is the incentive in this safeguard regime for the heaviest emitting industries to lower their emissions? GREG HUNT:Well there are two fronts in relation to reducing emissions. Firstly…
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