ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA: Thanks for joining us. I'm joined by the Secretary General of the Pacific Island Forum, and also the leaders of Niue, Tonga, FSM, Tuvalu, Palau, Solomon Islands and Fiji is caught up in a meeting. You'll hear from myself and then Minister Bowen, and then on behalf of PIF, President Whipps who is the chair, current chair of the Pacific Island Forum. It is a privilege to be here in Antalya at COP31 with the leaders of our Pacific family.

Australia has focused global attention on the Pacific at the world’s biggest climate conference, COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese highlighted the imminent threat of climate change in the Pacific and called for global support for the Pacific Resilience Facility, a Pacific-owned and led financing institution.

It is a privilege to be here in Antalya at COP31, and I want to acknowledge our friends in Türkiye who are providing such wonderful hospitality with us.

I also want to acknowledge that the objective here, there on the back, wherever you go around this wonderful conference, dialogue, consensus, and action is what we are here for.

Turning climate ambition into practical action, and that's precisely what the Pacific Resilience Facility is about.

Thank you President Erdoğan and Dr Birol for convening this event.

I would also like to thank my friend President Erdoğan for our partnership on COP31 and your leadership in advocating for the 35 by 35 target.

Electrification is fundamental to the clean energy transition.

Backed by renewables it reduces emissions.

Over-time electrifying our economy can reduce global dependence on fossil fuels, enhancing energy security and independence.

My fellow leaders,

Distinguished guests,

UN Secretary-General António Guterres,

President Erdoğan.

This is an historic moment for my country.

Australia is proud to be playing a leading role with Türkiye on climate change negotiations for the world at this United Nations Conference of the Parties.

Proud to be a leader on climate action.

Proud to be a renewable energy leader, creating the clean industries, businesses and jobs of the future.

And proud to be here fighting for the interests of our Pacific family.

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.