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.
Thank you to our hosts at the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and The Herald Sun for bringing this forum together once again.
I had the pleasure of spending nearly all last week here in Victoria.
I met with nurses at the Royal Children’s Hospital who had been supported by Paid Prac while they did their training placement.
HOST: The Prime Minister is on this morning. Good morning.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning. Good to be with you.
HOST: You're calling up to talk about, I guess was it late last night you sent a letter just to your British counterpart, just sort of saying that you back any plan to remove the former prince, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor?
HOST: Alright, jack up the anthem. Here we go. All rise. Oh, it's really loud. The Prime Minister joins us. Albo, good morning.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning. I hope you're standing up while the anthem's going.
HOST: Always.
HOST: Of course we are.
HOST: Shaun even took his hat off.
JODY ODDY, HOST: Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese. Good morning to you.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning. Wonderful to be with you.
ODDY: Did you do a voice to text to pen this letter or how does it work?
ANDREW HAYES, HOST: Is this a ChatGPT number, or?
MEL CLARKE, HOST: The Prime Minister joins me now. Anthony Albanese, thank you for speaking to AM this morning.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning. Good to be with you.
CLARKE: Now, do you want Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor removed from the line of succession?
Today marks four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in blatant violation of international law, including the United Nations Charter.
Four years of unprovoked Russian aggression against a sovereign, democratic neighbour.
Australia is steadfast in our commitment to a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
We commend the bravery and resilience of the Ukrainian people.
Australia has committed over $1.7 billion in total assistance, including $1.5 billion in military support to help Ukraine defend itself.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will welcome the Right Honourable Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, to Australia from 3 to 6 March.
This will be Prime Minister Carney’s first visit to Australia as Prime Minister. He will visit Sydney and Canberra, where he will address the Australian Parliament.
Australia and Canada have a close and enduring partnership, underpinned by trust and shared values, including parliamentary democracy, multiculturalism, equality before the law, and respect for our First Nations peoples.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Morning. Well, it's fantastic to be here in Albury at the Border Urgent Care Clinic. This is one of 124 that we already have opened. We will get to 138. At the last election, we promised to have another 50 Urgent Care Clinics opened, and we've opened more than half of them already since the May election, and that comes on top of the 87 that we elected before, that we opened, during our first term in office. We promised 50, but they were such a success that we kept going, because they're in such demand.
SANDRA MOON, HOST: Prime Minister, good morning.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good to be with you, and a shout out to all the wonderful people at Soden's last night. I ran into Vicki who was having a birthday with a bunch of her mates and it was a really friendly atmosphere and a great country pub.
MOON: Well, great to have you in the region, but what are you doing here?
BAILEY CORRIGAN, HOST: Hey, it's Bailey for your Monday morning, and it's an absolute honour to say that the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese joins me in the studio now. Thank you so much for your time, Prime Minister.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Great to be in Albury.