Minister Penny Wong's opening remarks to today's National Press Club debate are online. [Full text]
Minister Chris Bowen discussed the CPRS in an interview. [Full text]
An expanded version of Shadow Minister Greg Hunt's opening remarks to the National Press Club debate is online. [Full text]
Independent MP Robert Oakeshott declared Labor's CPRS Bill 'dead' and accused the Government and the Coalition of putting self-interest before national interest. [Full text]
Minister Greg Combet has discussed climate policy and Mike Kaiser's NBNCo appointment in an interview. [Full text]
Minister Craig Emerson and Shadow Minister George Brandis have discussed climate policy and Mr Kaiser's appointment in an interview. [Full text]
Tony Abbott discussed climate policy and home insulation in an interview. [Full text]
Minister Peter Garrett said every home that has foil insulation installed under the Home Insulation Program will undergo an electrical safety inspection. [Full text]
Minister Garrett discussed home insulation and Green Loans in a Sky interview. [Full text]
Minister Garrett has discussed home insulation in a 2UE interview. [Full text]
Shadow Parliamentary Secretary Simon Birmingham said Minister Garrett is so embarrassed at his Green Loans program that he's trying to distance himself from any of the program's targets. [Full text]
Shadow Parliamentary Secretary Ian Macdonald said nothing has been done to deliver the $50 Green Rewards Voucher promised as an incentive to apply for a Green Loan. [Full text]
Greens Senator Christine Milne said Minister Garrett's bungling tests the PM's green credentials. [Full text]
The NRMA issued 'Fuelling Future Passenger Vehicle Use in Australia'. [Full text]
The Manufacturing Alliance has said that imported steel will cost 2000 jobs at the Gorgon project. [Full text]
Minister Garrett discussed the Antarctic Treaty (Environment Protection) Amendment Bill 2010 in a speech to Parliament. [Full text]
Minister Nicola Roxon issued a report on the impact of 2007 reforms to the PBS. [Full text]
Medicines Australia said the report on reform of the PBS is fresh evidence that the PBS is sustainable and that the reforms are working. [Full text]
The AHIA has said that Government efforts to justify the dismantling of the private health rebate are misleading. [Full text]
The NSW Minster for Health has launched a new NSW Organ and Tissue Donor Agency. [Full text]
Minister Greg Combet has announced the appointment of David Morton as the ADF's Director General of Mental Health, Psychology and Rehabilitation. [Full text]
ARPANSA issued a summary of a recent meeting of its Radiation Health Committee. [Full text]
Minister Kim Carr has announced the board members of Commercialisation Australia. [Full text]
THE ARC issued the ERA ranked lists of journals and conferences. [Full text]
Minister Stephen Smith has discussed Australia's relations with India in a speech to Parliament. [Full text]
Minister Julia Gillard announced $700,000 for the Rock Eisteddfod Challenge. [Full text]
TAFE Directors Australia has cautiously welcomed the decision to replace the Migration Occupations in Demand List but questioned the timing of the announcement. [Full text]
The ALTC said a Learning and Teaching Academic Standards forum in Melbourne has attracted more than 100 delegates. [Full text]
Minister Gillard announced the 164 schools to take part in a national pilot project to address cyber-safety. [Full text]
NBNCo has said it has recruited over 100 people and will recruit hundreds more. [Full text]
Former High Court judge Michael Kirby has been awarded the Electronic Privacy Information Center's 2010 International Privacy Champion Award. [Full text]
Minister Penny Wong said more than 400 waterbirds are breeding in Yanga National Park as a direct result of environmental watering. [Full text]
Senator Nick Xenophon said Minister Wong has admitted that NSW could veto any plan designed to end storage arrangements at Menindee Lakes. [Full text]
Shadow Parliamentary Secretary Simon Birmingham said claims to have achieved national management of the Murray Darling Basin have been exposed as little more than a sham. [Full text]
L&WA said Minister Tony Burke has launched 'Irrigation Essentials'. [Full text]
ABARE issued 'Defining property rights to surface water in complex regulated river systems: generalising the capacity sharing concept'. [Full text]
ABARE issued 'The economic impact on irrigated agriculture of increased afforestation in the Murray-Darling Basin. [Full text]
ABARE issued 'An analytical framework for incorporating land use change and forestry in a dynamic CGE model'. [Full text]
ABARE issued 'Evidence of price premiums for non-GM grains in world markets'. [Full text]
Minister Simon Crean and the WTO Director-General have discussed trade negotiations in an interview. [Full text]
Ministers Crean and Tony Burke said Tasmanian growers are shipping the first-ever consignments of Australian cherries to the Republic of Korea. [Full text]
Parliamentary Secretary Bob McMullen announced $10 million over four years to improve marketing opportunities and boost agribusiness in the Pacific. [Full text]
Shadow Parliamentary Secretary Richard Colbeck said Minister Burke has failed to set terms of reference for an inquiry into rural R&D corporations he announced more than two months ago. [Full text]
Senator Colbeck said Minister Burke must not force rural communities to unnecessarily wait for a decision regarding Exceptional Circumstances regions which expire in March. [Full text]
ABARE issued 'Has growth in productivity in Australian broadacre agriculture slowed'. [Full text]
The ABS reissued 'Australian Wine and Grape Industry, 2009'. [Full text]
AGRICULTURE/CHEMICAL REGULATION
Croplife Australia issued its submission regarding a national scheme for the assessment, registration and control of use of agricultural and veterinary chemicals. [Full text]
The ACCC has accepted undertakings from Austar Port Lincoln bout misleading claims made about the place of origin of some of its seafood. [Full text]
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences has said the new science communications strategy opens the way for a strong and open relationship between science and society. [Full text]