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06 May 2008
Grant to help local council plan for climate change
The Rudd Government has today announced $24,380 in funding to assist Rockdale City Council to boost local capacity to adapt to climate change.
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06 May 2008
Daily Telegraph opinion peice: Only Budget bonanza will be tightening belts
THERE'S a street I drive along when I drop my daughters to school. Last week they counted seven ``For Sale'' signs in that one street.
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13 Mar 2008
Media release: Announcement of Local 2020 Summit
The local Summit provides a wonderful opportunity for all locals to make sure their ideas are recorded and included in the national conversation.
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11 Mar 2008
Daily Telegraph opinion peice: Australia can't miss the train
In the film Sliding Doors, Gwyneth Paltrow follows parallel lives based on whether she just catches - or misses - her train home.
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20 Feb 2008
Tony Burke speech - Apology to the Australia's Indigenous People
To have been a member of parliament at the time that that step was taken is perhaps one of the greatest privileges I will have as a member of parliament in my time here.
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07 Feb 2008
Chinese new year message from Tony Burke
Chinese New Year is a wonderfully colourful and vibrant event.
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01 Feb 2008
Tony’s photo reflecting ‘essence of our community’; donation of camera to KINGSG
Tony Burke has donated a $7000 camera to Kingsgrove High School after hearing that the school recently had their camera stolen.
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31 Jan 2008
Tony Burke's Daily Telegraph op ed: Farmers' spirit will win out
FOR years explorers claimed there was an inland sea in the middle of the country. In the past week that has actually become true.
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02 Jan 2008
Daily Telegraph Op Ed: Kevin07 moves into '08 with promise
KEVIN 08. It doesn't rhyme. There's no T-shirt. But what will the first full year of Rudd Government be like?
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01 Jan 2008
Federal Labor Plan To Improve The Quality Of The Cooks River
Local Labor MPs have secured a victory for their local communities with the Rudd Labor Government committing $2 million to improve Cooks River.
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08 Dec 2007
Saturday AM: Agriculture Minister discusses industry's future challenges
TONY BURKE: This is where the starting point is to do what farmers have themselves always been pretty good at in Australia and that is to look at serious adaptation to changing conditions.
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07 Dec 2007
Transcript: Prime Minister with the Hon. Tony Burke in Roma, Queensland
BURKE: If we want to make sure, as Labor does, that agriculture has that vibrant and viable future for Australia... then the only way to do it is to look forward into Australia’s farming future and make sure that climate change becomes part of that future
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29 Nov 2007
Media Release: New Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
I am honoured to be asked by the Federal Labor Leader, Kevin Rudd to be the new Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
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24 Nov 2007
Tony Burke has been returned as the Member for Watson
Tony Burke has been returned as the Member for Watson with with 71% of the of the two party preferred vote.
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13 Nov 2007
Lateline Transcript: Tony Jones discusses the Tran case with Labor's Tony Burke
Unfortunately, we've now seen more than 200 cases where somebody has spent part of their life inside immigration detention, only to find out at the end of that time that they were always lawfully in Australia.
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