Minister of the Environment (Australia) gas emissions, and promoting energy efficiency. The following individuals have been appointed to the post, or any of its precursor titles: The Minister for Sustainable Population was a ministerial portfolio administered through the Department of the Treasury responsible for "planning properly for the infrastructure needs, for the housing needs, for the transport needs, for the regional needs" of the Australian population of the future. Originally entitled the "Minister for Population" by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, his successor, Julia Gillard, renamed the portfolio to the "Minister for Sustainable Population" to reflect her policy changes on the matter of population growth and
Julia Gillard speech, as did the Prime Minister of Denmark, and some other leaders, just casually as I've moved around, have also mentioned it to me." US president Barack Obama reportedly "complimented" Gillard on the speech in a private conversation following his re-election, and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised the speech as "very striking" with Gillard going "chapter and verse". Labor had secured the defection of Slipper from the Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) to sit in the Speaker's chair a year earlier, but he was forced to stand aside from his main duties in April 2012 pending the