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01 December 2008
![]() Australia's future political cartoonists were today presented awards as winners of the National Museum of Australia’s national political cartooning competition for schools.
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19 November 2008
![]() Peter Garrett today opened a new e-waste recycling facility expected to divert as much as 20,000 tonnes of electronic waste from landfills when it operates at full capacity.
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13 October 2008
![]() Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett today announced more than $13 million for World Heritage projects in Australia and across the Asia-Pacific at the Pacific Islands World Heritage Workshop in Cairns.
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05 October 2008
![]() The Australian Government announced this week it will make available
grants of up to $10,000 to Australia’s surf life saving clubs to
install water saving and efficiency devices on club premises.
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02 October 2008
![]() Alice Springs’ place as the solar heart of Australia is confirmed with two projects worth $4.51 million in Australian Government funding, Environment Minister Peter Garrett announced today.
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30 September 2008
![]() One million additional hectares of native habitat will be protected and farmers will be better supported to continue improving land management under ambitious environmental targets set by the Rudd Government for the $2.25 billion Caring for our Country program.
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22 September 2008
![]() Environment Minister Peter Garrett has commissioned an independent review of proposed new management arrangements for Queensland’s East Coast Inshore Fin Fish Fishery to assist in his upcoming assessment of the fishery under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act).
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19 September 2008
![]() Three skilled and acclaimed practitioners in their fields will join the Australia Council’s Dance Board and Music Board, Arts Minister, Peter Garrett announced today
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19 September 2008
![]() Arts Minister Peter Garrett today announced that 19 performing arts companies would enjoy the opportunity to tour live performances across the country, thanks to a $2.9 million Playing Australia funding round.
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12 September 2008
![]() The winners of the inaugural Prime Minister's Literary Awards have been announced tonight at Parliament House in Canberra. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was joined by Arts Minister Peter Garrett to announce the two winning works, both by first time authors and selected from a competitive field of 14 short-listed Australian fiction and non-fiction books.
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05 September 2008
![]() Environment Minister Peter Garrett has acted to preserve the unique
biodiversity values at Shoalwater Bay north of Rockhampton in
Queensland, rejecting a proposal by Waratah Coal Inc. to establish a
rail line and coal port in the Shoalwater Bay Training Area.
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04 September 2008
![]() Environment Minister, Peter Garrett has suspended approval of the Reef Cove Resort development at Queensland’s False Cape and has ordered the developer to carry out an environmental audit of the site.
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03 September 2008
![]() A new interactive web portal, launched today by Environment Minister Peter Garrett, will provide urban developers with valuable information, including fact sheets and national and international case studies, on the creation of greener neighbourhoods.
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27 August 2008
![]() The Tasmanian devil has been included in a list of 27 animals, plants and important habitat areas to be assessed as a priority for their conservation status under the Australian Government environmental legislation.
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22 August 2008
![]() SUBJECTS: Gunns pulp mill
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19 August 2008
![]() SUBJECTS: Liberal position on nuclear; Bureau of Meteorology MOA; Senate solar inquiry
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19 August 2008
![]() Shadow Trade Minister Ian McFarlane is the latest Liberal frontbencher
to defy his leader and call for the reincarnation of the Liberal
Party’s plan to build nuclear power plants across Australia.
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18 August 2008
![]() Almost 1400 schools across the nation have already signed up for the Rudd Government’s $480 million National Solar Schools Program, Environment Minister Peter Garrett said today.
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11 August 2008
![]() $13.9 million in Commonwealth funding will go to Australia’s seventh Solar City in Perth, Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett said today.
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08 August 2008
![]() Arts Minister Peter Garrett has today tabled the Australian Government’s response to the 29 broad recommendations outlined in the Senate Inquiry Report Indigenous Art: Securing the future.
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03 August 2008
![]() Federal Environment Minister has banned the Savannah cat from being brought into Australia finding it poses an extreme risk to Australia’s environment and biodiversity.
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02 August 2008
![]() SUBJECTS: Solar homes and communities plan
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02 August 2008
![]() Environment Minister Peter Garrett said new figures released today show that applications for the $8000 solar panel rebate have grown at significant levels since the Federal Budget.
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29 July 2008
![]() The Great Barrier Reef and Queensland’s Burdekin Dry Tropics rangelands are among the beneficiaries of a $25.7 million Caring for our Country 2008-09 regional investment funding package announced today.
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29 July 2008
![]() After just five months the Liberal Party has today reincarnated their plan to build nuclear power plants in Australia.
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28 July 2008
![]() Environment Minister Peter Garrett has acted to protect the iconic southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsonii), rejecting an application for a residential development near Mission Beach in far north Queensland, using powers under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
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26 July 2008
![]() Launching National Ride to Work Day on the banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne, Environment Minister, Peter Garrett today called upon commuters across Australia to do something for their own health and the health of the environment by registering to take part in National Ride to Work Day on 15 October.
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25 July 2008
![]() Environment Minister, Peter Garrett and Planet Ark Founder, Jon Dee today joined students at Malabar Primary School to celebrate National Schools Tree Day.
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22 July 2008
![]() SUBJECTS: National Solar Schools Program; Solar Homes and Communities Plan; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme; Wayne Goodwin benefit concert.
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22 July 2008
![]() Marking the start of term 3 in New South Wales, Environment Minister, Peter Garrett today reminded Australia’s 9000 plus schools that they now had the opportunity to become solar schools thanks to the National Solar Schools Program.
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17 July 2008
![]() Peter Garrett today opened a new facility for the development of leading edge technology for improving energy efficiency in lighting. The BluGlass facility in Silverwater, Sydney, houses the development of unique technology aimed at sharply reducing the cost of highly efficient light emitting diodes (LEDs) - key to a sustainable lighting future.
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14 July 2008
![]() The Australian Government today announced the Australian Alps will be included in Tourism Australia's National Landscapes program and will feature prominently within Australia's future international tourism marketing.
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07 July 2008
![]() Peter Garrett today welcomed the World Heritage Committee’s consideration at its meeting in Quebec, Canada, of an expert report on Australia’s management of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.
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07 July 2008
![]() Celebrating NAIDOC week Heritage Minister, Peter Garrett has announced more than $3 million in support from the Commonwealth Government’s Indigenous Heritage Program for 49 Indigenous projects across Australia.
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04 July 2008
![]() Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett and WA Minister for State Development Eric Ripper said work to identify a hub site for liquefied natural gas (LNG) to service the Browse Basin gas reserves in the Kimberley had reached a significant milestone today, with the release of the Northern Development Taskforce’s interim report and assessment terms of reference.
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27 June 2008
![]() Australia and Chile today signed an historic agreement to cooperate on whale research and other whale conservation activities at the International Whaling Commission meeting in Santiago, Chile.
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26 June 2008
![]() Australia’s major reform proposals for modernising the International Whaling Commission have achieved overwhelming support at today’s International Whaling Commission meeting in Santiago, Chile.
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26 June 2008
![]() Issues: IWC wrap-up
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24 June 2008
![]() Issues: Australian reform proposals for IWC
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23 June 2008
![]() Issues: IWC
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23 June 2008
![]() Event with the President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, signing the decrees for the ongoing protections of whales in Chilean waters and recognition of whales as a natural monument
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23 June 2008
![]() Issues: IWC
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22 June 2008
![]() ISSUES: IWC, Belinda Neal, fuel prices.
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22 June 2008
![]() The 60th meeting of the International Whaling Commission represented an
historic opportunity to reform the organisation but progress towards
Australia’s objectives may take many years, Environment Minister, Peter
Garrett said today.
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20 June 2008
![]() Mr Garrett said the appointment of Mr Glen Boreham (Chair), Mr Ian Robertson (Deputy Chair), Ms Cherrie Bottger, Ms Rachel Perkins, Ms Deanne Weir, Mr Robert Connolly and Mr Greg Smith until 30 June 2011, opened a new chapter for Australian film and television with the commencement of Screen Australia from July 1.
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20 June 2008
![]() Environment Minister Peter Garrett has initiated a review of the
potential impacts of hybrid Savannah cats, which could see the cats
banned in Australia.
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20 June 2008
![]() Peter Garrett, the Federal Member for Kingsford Smith, announced the
local secondary schools which will receive funding for computers as
part of the Rudd Government’s $1.2 billion Digital Education Revolution.
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18 June 2008
![]() Environment and Heritage Minister, Peter Garrett today launched a comprehensive management plan to conserve and protect the place that Douglas Mawson called home.
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11 June 2008
![]() Peter Garrett AM, the Member for Kingsford Smith, attended the official opening of new facilities at Maroubra Junction Public School. Peter was joined by his state colleague, Michael Daley, the Member for Maroubra.
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05 June 2008
![]() Peter Garrett, the federal Member for Kingsford Smith, welcomed the Federal Government’s announcement that it would spend about $34 million next financial year on services to assist the integration of refugees and migrants.
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