E&OE…. Topics: Renewable Energy Target, Great Barrier Reef Long-Term Sustainability Plan FRAN KELLY: First though the Abbott Government has stepped up its campaign to save the Great Barrier Reef from being placed on the United Nations in-danger list. It’s pledged another $100 million to improve water quality, in what the PM has described as…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Renewable Energy Target, emissions projections DAVID SPEERS: Today the Minister for the Environment, Greg Hunt, has been meeting with representatives of the renewable energy sector. He joins me now. Minister, thanks for your time. GREG HUNT: Good afternoon, David. DAVID SPEERS: You’ve been meeting with the sector, Cabinet’s been meeting as well…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Great Barrier Reef Long-Term Sustainability Plan LARRY EMDUR: Now yesterday the Federal Government announced its long term plan for the Great Barrier Reef. An estimated $2 billion will be invested in the next decade to sustain the marine ecosystem. MONIQUE WRIGHT: Now the plan brings together both State and Federal Governments as…
DetailsE&OE GEORGE CHRISTENSEN: It’s great to be here as the Member for Dawson who represents this beautiful part of the world – The Whitsundays. It is a great honour to have the Prime Minister pop in for a visit and more importantly a major announcement which will, without a doubt, help the tourism industry…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Malabar Headland GREG HUNT: I’m delighted to be here with Rob Stokes, with Bruce Notley-Smith and Brendan Roberts and I am delighted to announce that the Government of Australia will hand Malabar Headland back to New South Wales for inclusion in the National Park. This will be one of Australia’s, if not…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Ban on capital dredge disposal in the Great Barrier Reef JOHN MACKENZIE: Well I’ve got a very patient Greg Hunt, the Federal Minister for the Environment, on the line, he’s just been listening to all of that information. But I have to take up another matter with him and that’s the announcement-…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Canned hunting, Intergenerational Report, Four Corners programme, higher education reforms MARK PARTON: Greg Hunt is the Federal Environment Minister and he joins us on a regular basis. He’s on the line right now to talk lions, believe it or not. G’day Greg. GREG HUNT: Good morning Mark. MARK PARTON: Talk to me.…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Great Barrier Reef, Renewable Energy Target, Emissions Reduction Fund STEVE AUSTIN: Today the Federal Environment Minister is in Brisbane to unveil draft laws to ban the dumping of dredge spoil in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Greg Hunt is the Minister. Good morning to you, welcome to the studio. GREG HUNT: …
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Ban on capital dredge disposal in the Great Barrier Reef, Renewable Energy Target, climate change. GREG HUNT: Today I want to announce that the Australian Government will use the force of law to ban dredge disposal from capital projects in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. This is delivering on the commitment…
DetailsE&OE…. Topics: Canned hunting GREG HUNT: Good evening and thank you for your commitment to protecting the great, the magnificent, the majestic lions of the world. We all know these are some of the most iconic creatures. They are listed as vulnerable by the IUCN and they are subject, sadly, to a deeply inhumane…
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