Disclaimer message: these pages contain content authorised by previous Ministers of the Department. List of previous ministers and their terms in office.
Transcripts 2009
December
- Press conference Adelaide - Climate Change, Copenhagen Accord - 23 December 2009
- Interview: 5AA Adelaide with Mike Smithson - Copenhagen Accord, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 22 December 2009
- Interview - Carbon Polution Reduction Scheme, Copenhagen Accord - 22 December 2009
- Doorstop interview: Copenhagen Accord, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 21 December 2009
- Doorstop interview: Copenhagen Conference - Copenhagen Accord, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 19 December 2009
- Interview: 7:30 Report with Kerry O'Brien - Copenhagen, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 18 December 2009
- Doorstop interview: Copenhagen Conference - 16 December 2009
- Doorstop interview: Copenhagen Conference - Copenhagen, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 15 December 2009
- Interview: Copenhagen Conference, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 14 December 2009
- Doorstop Interview: Copenhagen Conference - Copenhagen - 13 December 2009
- Interview: CNN World Business Today with Andrew Stevens - Copenhagen - 12 December 2009
- Interview: Aljazeera with Sir David Frost - Copenhagen, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 12 December 2009
- Interview: BBC World news - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Copenhagen - 11 December 2009
- Interview: 7.30 Report with Kerry O'Brien - Copenhagen, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 10 December 2009
- Doorstop interview: Copenhagen, New Coalition Shadow Ministry, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 8 December 2009
- Interview: Water buybacks, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Copenhagen - 07 December 2009
- Transcript of Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme 3rd reading speech to the Senate - 02 December 2009
- Interview: 2UE Mornings with Steve Price - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Copenhagen - 02 December 2009
- Interview: ABC Radio National with Fran Kelly - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Copenhagen - 02 December 2009
November
- Interview: ABC AM with Lyndal Curtis - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 30 November 2009
- Interview: 7.30 Report with Kerry O'Brien - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 24 November 2009
- Interview: ABC Radio National Breakfast with Fran Kelly - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 23 November 2009
- Interview: Laurie Oakes Today on Sunday - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 22 November 2009
- Interview: ABC AM with Sabra Lane - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 20 November 2009
- Interview: 702 ABC SYD Breakfast with Adam Spencer - The World in Sydney - 17 November 2009
- Interview: Mornings with Steve Price - Agriculture, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 16 November 2009
- Interview: ABC 774 Melbourne with Jon Fane - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Agriculture, Copenhagen - 16 November 2009
- Interview: ABC1 Insiders with Barrie Cassidy - Agriculture, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Climate Change Risks to Australia’s coast, Traveston Dam, Oceanic Viking - 15 November 2009
- Interview: ABC 773 Melbourne Mornings, Jon Faine - Four Corners, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 10 November 2009
- Interview: 2UE Breakfast with John & Sandy - Four Corners, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 10 November 2009
- Interview: ABC Radio National Breakfast with Fran Kelly - Four Corners, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 10 November 2009
- Doorstop interview: RPG Australia - Renewable Energy Target, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 05 November 2009
- Interview: the Hon Karlene Maywald MP and the Hon Paul Caica MP - Lower Lakes irrigation pipeline, water buybacks, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 03 November 2009
October
- Interview: Mornings with Steve Price - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Cubbie Station - 27 October 2009
- Doorstop interview Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Asylum seekers - 22 October 2009
- Interview: 7:30 report - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 19 October 2009
- Interview: ABC AM Sabra Lane - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 19 October 2009
- Interview: Meet the press - asylum seekers, extension of sitting hours, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 18 October 2009
- Doorstop interview: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 17 October 2009
- Doorstop interview: Beijing, China - Ministerial dialogue on Climate Change, detained Rio Tinto executives, carbon pollution reduction scheme - 14 October 2009
- Interview: ABC Radio National Breakfast with Fran Kelly - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, expert panel on Coorong and Lower Lakes - 13 October 2009
- Interview with Leon Byner, 5AA Adelaide - Wellington Weir, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, water restrictions - 12 October 2009
- Interview: ABC News Radio with Marius Benson - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 12 October 2009
- Interview on ABC Capricornia Breakfast with Jacquie Mackay: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 09 October 2009
- Emergency management and climate change research plan and grants, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 09 October 2009
- Doorstop interview: Gladstone, Queensland - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 08 October 2009
- Doorstop interview: Gladstone, Queensland - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 07 October 2009
- Interview: 2UE Mornings wiht Steve Price - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 07 October 2009
- Doorstop interview: $300 million on-farm irrigation efficiency grants program, Water for the Future, water buybacks, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 6 October 2009
September
- Interview 891 ABC Adelaide with Matt Abraham - 29 September 2009
- Interview, Lyndal Curtis ABC AM - Opposition amendments to the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 24 September 2009
- Interview, Greg Cary 4BC Brisbane - Opposition amendments to the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Copenhagen - 23 September 2009
- Doorstop Interview: International climate change negotiations - 22 September 2009
- Interview, ABC Radio National Breakfast - International climate change negotiations - 21 September 2009
- Interview, Lyndal Curtis ABC FM - Carbon pollution reduction scheme, major economies forum on energy and climate - 16 September 2009
- Doorstop interview: Renmark with Parliamentary Secretary for Water, Dr Mike Kelly and South Australian Minister for the River Murray, Karlene Maywald - 3 September 2009
- Interview, ABC Breakfast Mildura - Swan Hill: Environmental works at Hattah Lakes, Water buyback, Sunraysia modernisation project - 3 September 2009
- Doorstop Interview: Strengthening Basin Communities Program; water buyback; land management - 2 September 2009
August
- Doorstop interview: 5th Australia New-Zealand Climate Change & Business Conference, Melbourne - with Dr Nick Smith MP, New Zealand Minister for the Environment & Climate Change Issues - 25 August 2009
- Doorstop interview: Waste coal mine gas, Renewable Energy Target, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, tariffs - 18 August 2009
- Interview on ABC News Radio with Marius Benson: Renewable energy target interim assistance arrangements, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 17 August 2009
- Interview on ABC AM with Lyndal Curtis - 13 August 2009
- Interview on the 7.30 Report with Kerry O'Brien: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 11 August 2009
- Interview on 4BC Breakfast with Jamie Dunn: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Frontier economics report - 11 August 2009
- Interview on 2UE Breakfast with Mike & Sandy: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Frontier economics report - 11 August 2009
- Interview on ABC Radio National Breakfast: Frontier economics report, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 11 August 2009
- National Press Club Q&A: Frontier economics report, renewable energy target, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 10 August 2009
- Interview ABC1 Insiders: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Tracking to Kyoto and 2020 Report, Renewable Energy Target, Pacific Islands Forum, Fake Email Scandal - 9 August 2009
- Doorstop interview: Pacific Islands Forum, Cairns - 6 August 2009
- Interview ABC2 News Breakfast: Pacific Islands Forum, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 6 August 2009
- Pacific Islands forum, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 4 August 2009
- Doorstop interview: Ten days until Senate vote on climate change - 3 August 2009
- Doorstop interview: Renewable energy target interim assistance arrangements, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, water licences, Lower Lakes - 16 Ausust 2009
July
- Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, ALP National Conference - 31 July 2009
- Doorstop interview: Green Precincts program, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Lower Lakes - 29 July 2009
- Doorstop interview: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 25 July 2009
- Water buybacks, Murray Darling Basin, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 24 July 2009
- Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, water buybacks, lower lakes - 24 July 2009
- Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 23 July 2009
- Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, nuclear energy - 23 July 2009
- Doorstop interview: Vote on climate change legislation, nuclear energy, carbon capture and storage - 22 July 2009
- Climate Trust Board, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Coalition division - 22 July 2009
- Post Cabinet comments, Australian carbon trust, Copenhagen, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Stern Hu - 21 July 2009
- Green precincts fund, G8 and major economies forum, financing, Uluru board of management draft management plan - 12 July 2009
- Interview with Jon Faine, ABC 774 Melbourne: Australian detained in China, G8 and Major Economies Forum, Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute, renewable energy - 10 July 2009
- Interview ABC Newsradio: G8 and Major Economies Forum, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 10 July 2009
- Interview 2UE Breakfast with Mike & Sandy: G8 and Major Economies Forum - 10 July 2009
- G8, Major Economies Forum, Climate Change Science Report, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 9 July 2009
June
- Doorstop interview: Murray-Darling Basin, Strengthening Basin Communities program - 26 June 2009
- Doorstop interview: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 25 June 2009
- Interview ABC News Radio: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 25 June 2009
- Response to Senator Fielding's questions about the climate change science - 24 June 2009
- Interview 702 ABC Sydney Mornings: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 24 June 2009
- Interview ABC 891 Adelaide: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 24 June 2009
- Interview ABC2 Breakfast: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, fake email scandal - 24 June 2009
- Interview Sky News PM Agenda: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 23 June 2009
- Doorstop interview: Opposition motion to delay consideration of Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 23 June 2009
- Interview ABC Radio National: OzCar, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 23 June 2009
- Doorstop interview: Irrigation infrastructure funding, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 19 June 2009
- Interview Sky News AM Agenda Filibuster, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Renewable Energy Target - 19 June 2009
- Doorstop interview: Renewable Energy Target, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 18 June 2009
- Doorstop interview: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Renewable Energy Target - 15 June 2009
- Doorstop interview: Murray-Darling Basin, Renewable Energy Target - 12 June 2009
- Doorstop interview: Water for the Future, Renewable Energy Target, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 11 June 2009
- Interview, 9AM : Climate Change; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme; International action on Climate Change; Renewable Energy; Solar Credits; Competition for school kids - 11 June 2009
- Interview, ABC News Radio: Renewable Energy Target - 11 June 2009
- Interview, ABC 2: Solar Rebate and Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 10 June 2009
- Interview, Country Hour ABC 891: Water buyback - 5 June 2009
- Interview, Joel Fitzgibbon, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 4 June 2009
- Interview, Passage of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme through the Housre of Representatives - 4 June 2009
- Interview, ABC News Radio: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 3 June 2009
- Interview, ABC 2: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 2 June 2009
- Interview, ABC Radio National Breakfast: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 1 June 2009
- Interview, Laurie Oakes, Today on Sunday Channel 9: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 1 June 2009
May
- Interview, ABC 891: Murray-Darling Basin - 29 May 2009
- Interview, ABC Lateline: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 26 May 2009
- Interview, Sky News PM Agenda: Liberal Party, US Legislation - 26 May 2009
- Interview, Radio National - 22 May 2009
- Doorstop interview: Water, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 18 May 2009
- Interview, 891 ABC Adelaide: Desalination plant - 13 May 2009
- Doorstop interview: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 7 May 2009
- Interview, Sky News: UN submission, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, amendments - 6 May 2009
- Interview, ABC News Radio: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, amendments - 6 May 2009
- Doorstop interview: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Amendments - 5 May 2009
- Interview, ABC 774 Melbourne: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, amendments - 4 May 2009
- Interview, Sky News: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme amendments - 4 May 2009
April
- Interview, Sky News: Pearce review, business certainty, Greens - 30 April 2009
- Doorstop interview: Climate Change - 29 April 2009
- Interview ABC 891: Climate Change, Water for the Future - 24 April 2009
- Interview ABC 936 Hobart: Climate Change - 23 April 2009
- Interview 5AA Adelaide: Water - 23 April 2009
- Doorstop interview: Murray Darling Basin Authority - 23 April 2009
- Interview ABC 2 Breakfast: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, international negotiations on Climate Change, people smuggling - 21 April 2009
- Doorstop interview: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, international negotiations on climate change, water entitlement purchases - 20 April 2009
- Interview Meet The Press: Border Protection, Climate Change, Emission Trading Scheme, Job Security - 19 April 2009
- Interview: The World Today - 17 April 2009
- Doorstop interview: Water, Climate Change - 16 April 2009
- Doorstop interview: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 15 April 2009
- Doorstop interview: Think climate, think change schools competition, US climate policy, International negotiations on climate change - 6 April 2009
March
- Global Climate Change negotiations, Emissions Trading - 30 March 2009
- Climate Change, global financial crisis, international negotiations on Climate Change, carbon pollution reduction scheme - 27 March 2009
- Interview with Deborah Cameron, ABC 702 Sydney, Mornings: Climate change, global financial crisis, international negotiations on climate change, carbon pollution reduction scheme - 27 March 2009
- Visit to the USA for meetings with Obama administration on climate change - 25 March 2009
- Interview with Mike Smithson 5AA: Murray-Darling Basin, stormwater harvesting - 24 March 2009
- Interview ABC 891 Mornings: Murray-Darling Basin, Water for the Future, stormwater harvesting - 24 March 2009
- Doorstop interview: Murray-Darling Basin, Water for the Future, stormwater harvesting - 23 March 2009
- Interview ABC 2 News Breakfast: Climate change, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 18 March 2009
- Interview Radio National Breakfast: Climate change, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 17 March 2009
- Interview Sky Agenda: Climate change, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 13 March 2009
- Doorstop interview: Peter Cullen Water and Environment Trust, Murray-Darling Basin, climate change, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 13 March 2009
- Interview: Lower Lakes, Murray-Darling basin - 12 March 2009
- Press conference: Release of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme exposure draft legislation - 10 March 2009
- Interview ABC Western Plains, Dubbo - 3 March 2009
February
- Doorstop interview: Climate change, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Nation Building and Jobs Package, CEO Salaries - 27 February 2009
- Interview Sky News Agenda: Climate change, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, nation building and jobs package - 25 February 2009
- Doorstop interview: Climate change, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 25 February 2009
- Interview ABC AM: Climate change, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 23 February 2009
- Interview ABC Radio National: Climate change, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, nation building and jobs plan, household energy efficiency measures - 23 February 2009
- Doorstop interview: Climate change, carbon pollution reduction scheme, Copenhagen conference - 20 February 2009
- Interview Radio 2UE: Carbon pollution reduction scheme - 20 February 2009
- Doorstop interview: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, floods in Queensland, Murray River - 19 February 2009
- Interview ABC AM: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, carbon taxes, Malcolm Turnbull - 19 February 2009
- Press conference: Narrung Pipeline, Lower Lakes, Murray-Darling Basin, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 18 February 2009
- Interview ABC 891 Adelaide: $42 billion nation building and jobs package, Nick Xenophon, Murray-Darling Basin, Lower Lakes - 16 February 2009
- Interview ABC 891 Adelaide: Nation building and jobs package, senator Nick Xenophon, Murray-Darling Basin, Lower Lakes, Water for the Future - 13 February 2009
- Interview ABC 891 Adelaide: Lower Lakes, water buybacks, Murray-Darling Basin - 6 February 2009
- Interview 5AA Radio, Adelaide: Lower Lakes, water buybacks, Murray-Darling Basin - 6 February 2009
- Interview ABC 936 Hobart: Climate change, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, rebates for insulation and solar hot water systems - 3 February 2009
January
- Event launch Sydney: Rebates for rainwater tanks and greywater systems - 30 January 2009
- Interview ABC 702 Sydney: Climate change, heatwave in south-eastern Australia, carbon pollution reduction scheme, rebates for rainwater tanks and greywater systems, water for the future - 30 January 2009
- Doorstop interview Brisbane: Climate change, carbon pollution reduction scheme, climate change action fund, assistance for industry - 29 January 2009
- Doorstop interview Gladstone: Climate change, carbon pollution reduction scheme, climate change action fund, assistance for industry - 28 January 2009
- Interview ABC 666 Canberra: Climate change, carbon pollution reduction scheme, biochar, climate change action fund - 28 January 2009
- Doorstop interview: Climate change adaptation, health effects of climate change, carbon pollution redution scheme - 27 January 2009
- Interview ABC Far North Queensland: Climate change, carbon pollution reduction scheme, renewable energy - 27 January 2009
- Doorstop interview: Climate change, carbon pollution reduction scheme, White Paper - 24 January 2009
- Interview ABC Newsradio: Climate change, carbon pollution reduction scheme, White Paper - 23 January 2009
- Doorstop interview: National groundwater centre, Murray-Darlin Basin, climate change, carbon pollution reduction scheme - 22 January 2009
- Interview ABC Western Queensland, Mornings: ZeroGen, clean coal, climate change, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme white paper - 20 January 2009
