The Albanese Government’s plan to train, retrain or upskill Australians and tackle skills shortages is a raging success with all 180,000 Fee-Free places filled within six months.

New figures show Fee-Free TAFE enrolments have hit more than 214,300 in the first six months – six months earlier than anticipated and nearly 35,000 places more than expected.

The biggest winner is set to be the care sector, with courses across health care, aged care and disability care attracting more than 51,000 students or 23.8 per cent of total enrolments.

Pete, Host: Good morning to you, Mr Albanese. Welcome to the studio.

Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister: Good morning. Great to be here. Beautiful day here in Perth.

Pete: It's lovely.

Matt, Host: Isn't that right?

Prime Minister: It's always good weather.

Kymba, Host: We like to turn it on, don't tell too many people. We like that we're a little bit distant from everybody else. It stops, we don't just let everybody in.

Host: We do have the PM in the studio. It's great having Tracy here because you can see her nightly on Channel 9, PM, but she's also got a run down of your schedule. And she was reading it to us earlier on.

Host: Well, I've got the timings of your schedule today.

Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister: It's a busy day.

Host: They really jam pack it in, Prime Minister, for you and it's been busy for you ever since you took on the role really. Or being in politics in general.

TANYA PLIBERSEK, MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND WATER & MEMBER FOR SYDNEY: We're here on the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, and the place we're standing on right now is called Bennelong Point. It's named for a man who was the communicator between the first British settlers and the Aboriginal people who lived on and around Sydney Harbour all those years ago. Bennelong played a special role here in Sydney and he later went to England and played that role in England as well, communicating between Aboriginal Australia and white Australia even then.

I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet and I pay my respects to elders past, present and emerging.

I am so proud to lead a Government committed to Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through a Voice.

And I am grateful to be in the presence of a union that has thrown its considerable weight behind the Yes vote. Behind this chance of a fairer, more united Australia.

It’s an honour to be here with you all tonight. I particularly want to acknowledge the leadership of Graeme Kelly.

I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet and I pay my respects to their elders past, present and emerging.

I am proud to lead a Government committed to Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, through a Voice.

And I want to thank the Business Council of Australia for your longstanding support of this cause.

For making the very straightforward point that Australia needs to do better in Indigenous health and housing and employment and education.

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Justice Stephen Gageler AC as the fourteenth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. Justice Gageler will commence as Chief Justice on 6 November 2023 upon the retirement of Chief Justice Susan Kiefel AC.

BRANDY, HOST: Anthony Albanese, welcome to Breakfast with Vossy and Brandy.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning. It will indeed be a very, very big night. This is a sporting team that has captured the imagination of the entire country.

LAURA TINGLE, HOST: Your first Labor Conference as PM, the first Labor in power in more than a decade. Yesterday, you had a National Cabinet meeting of wall-to-wall Labor mainland governments. The Opposition is wallowing in the polls, yet the overwhelming messages of the Conference from your own Party, that you aren't doing enough, whether it be on housing, climate, energy. Should voters be wondering whether you are ambitious enough with what you're trying to achieve in Government?

Today our nation will pause to mark Vietnam Veterans’ Day, the key commemoration in this 50th anniversary year of the end of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War.

Thousands of Australians will gather at the Vietnam Forces Memorial in Canberra, and across the country, to honour the service and sacrifice of our Vietnam veterans.

On 18 August 1966, Australians and New Zealanders were outnumbered 10 to one in the battle of Long Tan.