ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Welcome to the Premier of Victoria, Jacinta Allan. Jacinta and I go back a long way and we've been in parliament for almost the same time, but Jacinta was of course very, very young when she went into parliament. But we've worked together on Infrastructure, on Regional Development and on our mutual interests that we have and I was very pleased to meet with Jacinta last, seems like a long time ago?

JACINTA ALLAN, PREMIER OF VICTORIA: Only about ten days.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Thanks very much for joining me, there are two issues that I wish to convey to you today. The first is that my government will begin the assisted departure of Australians who want to leave Israel. We understand that many Australians are experiencing difficulties with delays and cancellations with commercial flights. For Australians who do not already have plans to leave through commercial options, Australian Government-assisted departure flights will depart from Friday.

We meet today at a time of profound sorrow.

In the shadow of terrorist acts that are truly abhorrent.

We have seen unimaginable atrocities, targeting children.

The most innocent of lives, stolen in the most barbaric of ways.

Over 1,000 people in Israel have been killed, as many as 150 people taken from Israel and held hostage in Gaza.

This is the worst loss of life for Jewish people on a single day in history since the Holocaust.

A fact that bears such awful weight for a people who have known the horror of genocide.

ALI MOORE, HOST: Anthony Albanese, welcome to Drive.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: G'day Ali. Good to be with you.

MOORE: I'm hoping that you might stay with us over the newsbreak. I'm just going to put that up front because there's a lot to talk to you about today. Can I start with Cheng Lei. When did you find out that she was being released?

KYLE, HOST: Hi, Prime Minister. Good morning, Prime Minister.

JACKIE O, HOST: Hi, Mr Albanese.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning. How are you both?

JACKIE O: Good.

KYLE: I'm so sorry, Prime Minister. I didn't realise that you were there.

PRIME MINISTER: I'm here, listening into what sounds like absolute chaos.

JACKIE O: How embarrassing.

KYLE: Well, correct.

DIANA MISLOV, MAYOR OF PORT LINCOLN: Welcome to the media and on behalf of the City of Port Lincoln, I'd like to acknowledge the Barngarla People on whose lands we meet who are the traditional owners. And I'd like to extend a very warm welcome to our Prime Minister who's travelled from across the country to come to visit us here in Port Lincoln. We meet on their lands of Galinyala, Port Lincoln, the place of sweet water. And we're better to have our Prime Minister now, in our beautiful Boston Bay. So thank you very much for visiting us, Mr.

DAN CROUCH, HOST: Good morning. How are you?

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning to you. Well, I'm terrific. It's a great place to wake up, Port Lincoln, I've got to say. Beautiful morning, sun shining over the bay here, and it is going to be a really good day. I'm headed to the Port Lincoln Grain Export Terminal this morning to have a look, having had a big civic reception last night hosted by Diana Mislov, the Mayor of Port Lincoln. And it's been a really terrific visit.

DJ BARRY, HOST: We've got Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, in the chair out this way. Good morning, or good afternoon, Prime Minister.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good afternoon, great to be with you. It's good to be back in Broken Hill.

BARRY: Yeah, I presume you have been off this way before?

PRIME MINISTER: I certainly have, but it's great to be back. This is my first visit as Prime Minister, so it's pretty special.

KIERAN GILBERT, HOST: Joining me live now from Uluru is the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese. Prime Minister, thanks for your time. In March, you were visibly moved -

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good afternoon, Kieran.

GILBERT: When you announced the final wording of the referendum and the Constitutional amendment. Now you're at Uluru this afternoon, is that sense of history still very much front of mind for you?

GREG JENNETT, HOST: Prime Minister, we welcome the opportunity and appreciate it to talk to you at any time, but particularly on such a hectic schedule and especially from such a stunning location there at Uluru. You have in many ways, I suppose, gone back to the heart of the matter. There in 2017, the authors of the Uluru Statement, I will read it, I'm sure you are familiar with it, said, "We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country". Why have you gone back to base camp today?