On Remembrance Day, we observe a minute of silence in honour of the moment the guns fell still across Europe 108 years ago.

Amid the trauma, exhaustion and indeed elation that marked the end of the Great War, that silence held the hope that the world would never again know such horror.

More than a century on, it is a hope we are yet to realise, but we hold on to it with every fibre of our being.

It is a hope embodied by generations of Australians who have served in our name, and Remembrance Day stands for every single one of them.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Today on Remembrance Day, we pause to honour all who have served in Australia's name. We remember the 108 years ago when the guns fell silent in Europe. Since then, Australian men and women have continued to wear our uniform to defend our democracy and our way of life. The 15,000 Australians who were interned here in Changi represent the best of the Australian character. They showed courage, selflessness, sacrifice, and mateship.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will travel to Türkiye, the Philippines and China to advance Australia’s economic interests while advocating for peace, stability, and free trade.

Prime Minister Albanese will attend the COP31 World Leaders’ Summit in Antalya before travelling to Manila for the 6th ASEAN–Australian Summit and 21st East Asia Summit. The Prime Minister will then travel to China to attend the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in Shenzhen and the Australia–China Annual Leaders’ Meeting in Beijing.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good afternoon. Thanks for joining us. I'm joined by the Deputy PM, Richard Marles, and the Home Affairs Minister, Tony Burke. When it comes to the generational opportunity that artificial intelligence offers Australia, I've been very clear. Our task is to make sure that we shape AI rather than AI shape us. It will have a drastic impact on the way that work occurs, on the way that we engage with each other, on the way that society functions.

The Albanese Government is today releasing the recommendations of the Rapid Review into the OpenAI agent infiltration of an Australian Government health website.

The Review was commissioned in September after OpenAI informed the Australian Government that a rogue AI agent had infiltrated government websites, including the Medicare Statistics Reporting Service Portal.

As we said at the time – and made clear to the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman – this incident was unacceptable, the disclosure was inadequate and it couldn’t be allowed to happen again.

The Albanese Government will enshrine world leading mandatory Artificial Intelligence safety and security protections in Australian AI Standards legislation.

Australia has the chance to secure and shape the generational opportunities of AI – in Australia’s national interest – while keeping Australians safe.

We want AI investors to come to Australia but first and foremost we want to keep Australians safe. That is why we are choosing to announce our approach to safety first and before a range of major international talks that will cover AI development and investment.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Thanks so much for joining us in the National Situation Room here at NEMA, a proud creation of our government that is making an enormous difference. I'm joined by Kristy McBain, the Minister for Emergency Management, Pat Hetherington, the NEMA Interim Coordinator-General, and Simon Louis from the Bureau of Meteorology.

As the bushfire season and supercharged El Niño event begins to impact parts of Australia, the Australian Government is investing an additional $12 million to strengthen bushfire risk management and support the mental health and wellbeing of emergency first responders.

The investment will go towards improving the Australia Fire Danger Rating System (AFDRS) and extending three critical national services that provide bushfire and mental health support.

Included in the funding is: 

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good afternoon. I'm very pleased to be joined by the Deputy Prime Minister and the Defence Minister Richard Marles here at this historic site of Victoria Barracks. And today, I can announce that Victoria Barracks will be free for all Sydneysiders to enjoy, and it will remain in public hands. This will give an assurance to the public that the heritage at this site is vital, that it be not just maintained, but indeed enhanced.

The Albanese Government is acting on the independent Defence Estate Audit, and progressing the most significant reform to Australia’s Defence estate in our nation’s history.

Keeping Australians safe is the Government’s priority, and as part of that we must ensure the Australian Defence Force (ADF) has access to facilities that are fit for purpose.

In response to the independent Audit, the Government agreed to divest or partially divest 67 sites that were underutilised by Defence, not fit-for-purpose, and costly for Defence to maintain.