WALEED ALY, HOST: Would you please welcome Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese.
PETER HELLIAR, HOST: PM, we usually reach out to you. You reached out to this time. You're not the most important person in the room today. What would you love to say to Carrie?
SARAH FERGUSON, HOST: Scott Morrison has rejected the censure today as the politics of retribution. What did this achieve apart from the rebuke of a political adversary?
The Albanese Labor Government has delivered on the next step of its plan to lift wages, improve job security and start closing the gender pay gap.
The Government’s Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill – which passed Federal Parliament today – will give Australian workers a better deal and a better future.
After a decade of deliberate wage suppression under the Liberals and Nationals, Australian workers need a pay rise and these new laws will deliver.
The Albanese Government has today delivered on our promise to the Australian people to return integrity, honesty and accountability to government by legislating a powerful, transparent and independent National Anti-Corruption Commission in 2022.
The Albanese Government's National Anti-Corruption Commission will:
The Albanese Government welcomes the final report from the Bell Inquiry, handed down today by the Hon Justice Virginia Bell AC.
The Inquiry examined the appointment of former Prime Minister, the Hon Scott Morrison MP, to administer multiple departments without disclosure to his colleagues or the public.
The unprecedented and inexcusable actions of the former Prime Minister were emblematic of the culture of secrecy in which the previous Government operated.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Yesterday our government was able to pass its National Anti-Corruption Commission legislation through the House of Representatives. It was an important day for integrity and accountability in politics. And so is today. We're shining sunlight on a shadow government that preferred to operate in darkness, a government that operated in a cult of secrecy and a culture of cover-up, which arrogantly dismissed scrutiny from the parliament and the public as a mere inconvenience. A government whose motto was ‘nothing to see here’.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: I would like to start by congratulating my friend Daniel Andrews on an extraordinary result in Victoria. Winning a third term with an absolute majority is an extraordinary achievement. Daniel Andrews has led Victoria through difficult times, in particular the pandemic.
VIRGINIA TRIOLI, HOST: Good morning, Prime Minister.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good to be with you, Virginia.
TRIOLI: Were you chipping a Labor win of this magnitude here in Victoria?
The Albanese Government is acting to make workplaces safe from sexual harassment with the passage of the Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights Legislation (Respect@Work) Bill through Parliament.
Sexual harassment is not inevitable – it is preventable.
This historic Respect@Work legislation significantly progresses gender equality by ensuring women are able to earn a living in safe, sexual harassment-free workplaces.
The legislation closely follows the recommendations of Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins, left unfinished by the former government.
Thank you so much. I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet. I pay my respects to their elders, past, present and emerging. And on behalf of the government that I'm proud to lead, I recommit to the implementation of the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full, including a constitutionally enshrined Voice to this Parliament.