Opening remarks - Bilateral meeting

Speech
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
Prime Minister

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ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Thank you very much. Well, Mr President, it is wonderful to be here on my second visit as Prime Minister of Australia, but my seventh actual visit to Indonesia. I’m very pleased that my Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, who has just brought down our first Budget of the new Government has been able to join us here. And I’m deeply pleased that we were here together in Jakarta and then in Makassar in June where we announced the scholars program, and to be able to meet so soon the ten scholars who studied everything from engineering to medical science to climate change and the need to make the investment in the transition to clean energy.