ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Thanks very much for joining us. We're here today to launch the Defence Strategic Review which we'll be releasing an unclassified version of here today. And I'm joined today of course by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, the Minister for Defence Industry and Minister for International Development and the Pacific, our Chief of the Defence Force, and the Secretary of the Department of Defence. National security is the most solemn responsibility of any Australian Government.

We gather before the dawn because they did.
 
Picture those first Anzacs. Far from home, huddled in their boats, waiting, wondering.
 
Lance Corporal James Bell of the 9th Battalion would later recall sailors lined up on one of the battleships and giving a muted cheer, waving their caps in a circle and “uttering a subdued whisper, barely audible to those in the boats”.
 

On 24 May Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will host the 2023 Quad Leaders’ Summit in Sydney.

It will be the first time Australia has hosted the Quad Leaders’ Summit, and follows the Prime Minister’s attendance at the Quad Leaders’ Summit in Tokyo in May 2022. It will be the third in-person Quad Leaders’ Summit.

The Prime Minister looks forward to welcoming his Quad counterparts to Australia for the Summit. These visits build on the meetings the Prime Minister has already had with Prime Minister Modi, Prime Minister Kishida, and President Biden.

ANDREW CLENNELL, HOST: Well joining me live now from his office in Parliament House is the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese. Prime Minister, thanks so much for your time. So, we heard today from Bill Shorten that he’s going to reform the NDIS. When we see the Budget in three weeks from today, will the estimated cost of that scheme have reduced or increased?

RICHARD KING, HOST: Good morning, Prime Minister.

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

JASON ‘JASE’ HAWKINS, HOST: Hey, Albo, good morning.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning to you all.

HAWKINS: Hello mate.

LAUREN PHILLIPS, HOST: Nice to talk to you. It’s been a while.

HAWKINS: I know, I was just saying to Lauren. We haven’t spoken since you turned the big 6-0.

PRIME MINISTER: Don’t rub that in. I’m in denial.

Thank you Mr President for your leadership and for bringing us together today. I’m indeed delighted to join you from Australia this evening.

Strong climate action is at the very top of my Government’s agenda and it is a clear priority for the Australian people.

We are moving swiftly to drive down emissions and seize the opportunities of the global net zero transformation.

Already, within our first year of Government, we’ve enshrined new climate targets in law for the first time, providing certainty and stability to drive investment.

JASON CLARE, MINISTER FOR EDUCATION: Well, thanks for coming along to Bankstown, boss. Great to have you in my neck of the woods on a beautiful Friday morning here at Uniting Care. And I want to thank the Uniting team for welcoming us here again, I was here only just last week talking about child care, talking about something which is so important for mums and dads all across the country, including about 100,000 families right here in Western Sydney.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the Minister for Home Affairs and the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs have today announced a new direct pathway to Australian citizenship for eligible New Zealand citizens.

Changes in 2001 made it more difficult for New Zealanders in Australia to attain citizenship.

Today we have announced that from 1 July 2023, New Zealand citizens living in Australia will have a direct pathway to Australian citizenship.

The shipwreck of Australia’s largest loss of life at sea has been discovered, more than 80 years after it sunk.

Japanese merchant vessel the SS Montevideo Maru was sunk on 1 July 1942 off the coast of the Philippines after setting sail from the former Australian territory of New Guinea. 

The ship was carrying approximately 1,060 prisoners from around 16 countries, including 850 Australian service members from Rabaul. The ship was not marked as a Prisoners of War transport.