ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA: Prime Minister, I'm absolutely delighted to welcome you here, formally now, to Australia. Of course, you got a welcome from about 20,000 people last night that was extraordinarily warm and the energy and affection in the room was obvious to all who were there, and all who witnessed it. Can I say that following the discussions in Tokyo with Quad leaders, when we first met a year ago, it seems like it has gone very quickly. So this is our sixth meeting now in just my first year of my prime ministership.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA: I am absolutely delighted to welcome Prime Minister Modi here to Australia.

I am pleased to meet Prime Minister Modi so soon after our productive meeting in Hiroshima for the 2023 Quad Leaders’ Summit.

Quad Leaders stand together for an open, stable, secure and prosperous Indo-Pacific region; a region where sovereignty is respected, and all countries large and small benefit from a regional balance that keeps the peace.

CHRIS O'KEEFE, HOST: I'm joined by our Prime Minister. Anthony Albanese. G'day, Prime Minister.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: G'day, how are you going? What a fantastic day it will be. We had a very productive meeting this morning and people would have seen some footage, perhaps, of last night's rather extraordinary event there at Homebush, where Prime Minister Modi received such a warm welcome from Australians of Indian origin.

AMANDA KELLER, HOST: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, hello.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning. Good to be with you again.

BRENDAN JONES, HOST: Great to talk to you again. But that's kind of a big deal, isn't it?

DAVE HUGHES, HOST: Has a war broken out between Erin Molan and the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese?

ED KAVALEE, HOST: Who joins us on the line from Canberra, good morning, Prime Minister.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning. Still in Sydney on the way to the airport.

I rise to contribute to the debate on the Constitutional Alteration Bill.

“We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.”

That’s the closing line of the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

On Friday, it will be six years since that patient, gracious, generous and optimistic invitation was extended to the people of Australia.

A hand outstretched. A powerful show of faith in the innate decency and fairness of all Australians.

Today marks six years since the Uluru Statement from the Heart was issued at Uluru on 26th May 2017.

Along with National Sorry Day and this year’s National Reconciliation Week (27 May to 3 June), it an important time for Australians to reflect.

Six years ago, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders from across the nation issued the Statement from the Heart, inviting their fellow Australians ‘to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future’.

I intend to recommend to the Governor-General that he make the following changes to the Ministry.

Patrick Gorman MP will be appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Public Service, known as Assistant Minister for the Public Service.

This is in addition to his current role of Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister.

Dr Andrew Leigh MP will be appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, known as Assistant Minister for Employment.

Today we announce the inaugural Advisory Board for the Centre for Australia-India Relations, that will drive greater collaboration between our countries from its new Western Sydney base.

The Centre will work across government, industry, academia and the community to build greater understanding within the Australia-India relationship and support business to seize the opportunities of our economic partnership.

Thank you friends.

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.

And I am proud to lead a government that will give all of you, all Australians, the chance to vote in a referendum to recognise our First Peoples in our nation's Constitution later this year.

And I urge my Indian-Australian friends, vote yes.

It is a huge pleasure to welcome Prime Minister Modi to Australia.