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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese joined Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Matt Garman in Seattle today to welcome AWS’s investment of AUD$20 billion into data centre infrastructure in Australia.
Over the next five years, this landmark investment will provide the world’s most advanced infrastructure that can support complex artificial intelligence (AI) and all other technology applications, enabling organisations across Australia to train and deploy AI models and continue to rapidly innovate.
SITIVENI RABUKA, PRIME MINISTER OF FIJI: Well, it is a great honour for us to receive the Prime Minister of Australia, and the people and the Government of Fiji would like to congratulate him on his most successful return. Well done, and we were really flattered, honoured, when he called me a few hours after he was sworn in on his way out to visit the President of Indonesia. And our first visitor straight after that was Foreign Minister, Penny Wong. Thank you.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will travel to Fiji, the United States of America and Canada from 13-19 June 2025.
On 13 June 2025 in Nadi, Prime Minister Albanese will meet with the Hon Sitiveni Rabuka, Prime Minister of Fiji.
Leaders will discuss bilateral cooperation under our elevated Vuvale Partnership, including on climate change and regional security.
In Seattle, the Prime Minister will meet a range of business leaders to discuss how the US and Australia can work together to take advantage of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence.
SIMON HICKEY, WESTERN SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CEO: So welcome everybody to this wonderful milestone, completing all of our major work contracts and announcing Air New Zealand, and I'll open up to questions.
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KATHRYN ROBSINSON, HOST: Anthony Albanese will be attending the official opening of the terminal seven years after work began at Badgerys Creek. And given that he's in our neck of the woods, he's kindly called in for a chat. Very good morning to you, Prime Minister.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning, good to be with you. And it's an exciting day for Western Sydney.
Sydney’s new 24-hour airport is one step closer to welcoming its first passengers, with major construction works across Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport (WSI) now complete and the state-of-the-art terminal formally unveiled today.
Today’s announcement marks a major milestone for the project, signalling a shift in the airport’s progress from construction to operations in the lead up to its opening in 2026.
TOM CONNELL, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB: Thank you, Prime Minister. So, the Productivity Summit, you alluded to the one in the previous term on IR as well. Some of the business leaders in the wake of that said they felt like things were too slanted towards what the unions wanted. How would you reassure them this time around that it's worth participating and it will be a level playing field?
I intend to recommend to the Governor-General that she make the following Secretary appointments to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Department of the Treasury.
Dr Kennedy has over 30 years of experience in the Australian Public Service, including serving as Secretary of the Department of the Treasury from September 2019 and Secretary of the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development from September 2017 to August 2019.