Anthony Pratt
Anthony Pratt
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Finishing all of these projects would be the biggest accomplishment in terms of protecting our beaches during my time with (the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control,
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Accelerated depreciation helps companies bring forward capital-intensive investments by reducing payback time. It's not a hand out. Companies still have to pay the tax, but they simply get to defer it.
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The Second Green Revolution, as the world's population grows to over 9 billion by 2050, is the new revolution we have to have to lift food production by another 75 percent.
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Producing clean energy from non-recyclable waste is an important part of my future vision for family company Visy Australia.
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Private is our DNA, in my DNA. It enables us to make decisions for the long term.
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My company in the U.S., Pratt Industries U.S.A., has grown from scratch to become a billion-dollar business based on recycling, as well as the largest Australian-owned employer of U.S. citizens.
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I was in Bethany at about 7:30 a.m. and my estimate was waves of 3, possibly 4 feet. Virtually negligible beach erosion. It was the kind of thing you see in just a very minor blow. People could go out to the beach today and have a good time.
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We can bring together rich natural resources, innovative research and development, smart investors, and risk-taking farming and manufacturing entrepreneurs.
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When Isabel came in, she at one point looked like she was coming in straight at us. About a one-degree difference two days out could have put her right on us.
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Future growth will be the result of more vehicle manufacturers entering the hybrid-electric market and a greater number of hybrid models. There are currently only 11 hybrid models available in the U.S market, and by 2012 that number could increase to 52 models.
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I believe we have the potential to quadruple Australia's food exports to Asia.
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Only 10 per cent of food grown in India is processed. So the best way to reduce food waste and maximise calorie delivery is to increase that ratio of processed food to total food.
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My faith in the economic potential of the low carbon economy is not an untested prediction.
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When we sell paper in Asia, we sell them things such as their corrugator rolls as well as paper.