MARK GIBSON, HOST: The PM has phoned through to chat to you this morning. Good morning.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: G'day, good to be with you. It's great to be back here. I just had a lovely brekkie at Freo. It was a beautiful morning here.
GIBSON: Just stopping off in Freo on the way, a little bit down the freeway there to make this announcement.
PRIME MINISTER: That’s right.
OLIVER PETERSON, HOST: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, good afternoon.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good afternoon, Oly. Wonderful to be able to chat with you again and great to be back here in the great state of WA.
PETERSON: Well, this morning you were out and about with a major road announcement. The Kwinana Freeway to get a $350 million Commonwealth injection on top of a $350 million state injection. What's planned to happen to the Kwinana?
The Albanese and Cook Governments are building Western Australia’s future, driving economic growth and delivering benefits for commuters with a partnership to deliver a $700 million upgrade to the Kwinana Freeway.
The Albanese Government will invest $350 million to ensure this important work gets delivered.
Widening the Kwinana Freeway will add around 50 per cent capacity to the upgraded sections, easing congestion for motorists and improving the efficiency of moving freight on a road that typically carries 100,000 vehicles every day.
Current and future generations of Australian school children will learn the history and lessons of the Holocaust, following a $6.4 million investment by the Albanese Labor Government to build a National Holocaust Education Centre in Canberra and to deliver an upgrade to the Holocaust Institute of WA’s Education Centre in Yokine.
The announcement, made on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, comes as Australia and the global community mark 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we hold on to the memories of millions. We reflect on the great multitude of Jewish life that the Holocaust robbed from the world - all of that energy, potential, inspiration, talent and love - and we hold their names and their faces in our hearts.
We tend to these memories because we cannot allow the Holocaust to recede into history. It was a pitiless and unrelenting act of cruelty that was long in the planning, cold in its calculation, and carried out on a scale that falls across the decades like a terrible shadow.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Well, happy Australia Day to all throughout this amazing country. There'll be 700 events held by local communities right around Australia, just like the National one that's been held here. I've had the privilege as first Opposition Leader and then Prime Minister to come to the National Australia Day event here on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin, and it is always inspiring.
ROSS SOLLY, HOST: Prime Minister, thank you so much for joining our live broadcast. You're with Ross Solly and lovely to have you with us tonight. What a night. And some incredible recipients tonight. You must be very, very proud of those Australians.
I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet and I pay my respects to their elders past, present and emerging.
Your Excellency, distinguished guests.
My fellow Australians.
And, in particular, can I welcome the 24 of you who took your seats at this ceremony as citizens of Brazil, France, Germany, India, Nigeria, the Philippines, South Africa, the United States, Sri Lanka and Vietnam but will leave here as our fellow Australians.
It’s an honour to share this moment with you and your loved ones.
I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet and I pay my respects to their elders past, present and emerging.
Friends, how special it is to come together like this on the eve of Australia Day.
As we take up our anthem’s invitation to rejoice, we take the opportunity to reflect, and to celebrate the modern nation we are so privileged to call home.
To contemplate all that our nation is – and all that it can yet become.
A nation that is not an accident, or the mere jackpot of good luck.
Australia Day is an opportunity to celebrate everything we've built together and to be optimistic for the future we can shape together.
It's a chance for all of us to reflect on how lucky we are to live in the greatest country on earth and to think about what we can do to make our nation even better in the years ahead.