The Albanese Labor Government is building Australia’s future, today announcing $750 million to boost development of new technologies to ensure our metals manufacturers remain globally competitive.

Australia is already prized for its alumina, aluminium, iron and steel, and this funding will value add to our high quality Australian metals exports worth over $150 billion annually.

GARY ADSHEAD, HOST: As I speak to you, the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, is walking into the studio. So, I won't bore anyone any more, Prime Minister, with my stories of working at a holiday camp in Britain because you are joining me in the studio. How are you?   

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good to see you, Gary, what were you doing in the holiday camp?

OLY PETERSON, HOST: Joining me in the 6PR studios this afternoon is the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese. Good to see you.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: G'day, Oly. I'm not surprised by that announcement, I've got to say. Driving here – we were in the hills with Trish Cook there – and on the road on the way there were trees down, fire engines and emergency services rushing to clear debris away. It's a pretty fierce storm out there. So, if you're driving – drive safely, please.

TRISH COOK, LABOR CANDIDATE FOR BULLWINKEL: Good morning everyone. Thank you for being here on this unusual weather outside. Glad we all got here safely on the roads, they're very slippery. It's my great pleasure today to be here at the Mundaring GP Super Clinic with Dr. Kiran, who is the practice owner, to welcome Anthony Albanese, our Prime Minister. Mundaring is right in the heart of Bullwinkel, which is the new electorate named after a nurse. And as a nurse myself, I'm so pleased for what Labor is doing for nursing, medicine and general practice.

CRAIG REUCASSEL, HOST: This morning the Prime Minister's in Sydney to announce a $1 billion spend on South West Sydney to connect Badgerys Creek Airport with Macarthur and Campbelltown. Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, joins me now. Morning, Prime Minister.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning, Craig. I don't know about your Wordle theory, mate. I reckon if ever I got it in one, I'd be pretty happy.

REUCASSEL: Really? You obviously don't play Wordle then.

KYLE SANDILANDS, HOST: Let's put him on. Forget about what you've got going on.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: I am listening now.

SANDILANDS: Sorry Albo, every time, Prime Minister. Every time, every time you come on, you’ve caught us in the middle of something.

JACKIE ‘O’ HENDERSON, HOST: It’s just women's talk. It happens. It’s natural.

It is such a pleasure to be here with you to talk about this new chapter in the story of Western Sydney – all of it driven by the airport that bears the name of a great Australian.

Nancy-Bird Walton was a woman of curiosity and extraordinary courage. What she saw in flight was the power to connect people and communities across this vast continent.

She looked to a bigger, bolder future – and she blazed her own trail right into it.

This is such a fitting way to honour her.

RORY MCLAREN, HOST: Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese. Good morning to you.

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

MCLAREN: Thank you for your time this morning, Prime Minister. Should South Australians be concerned about the tariff and the trade war that is breaking out in the United States?

JACQUI FELGATE, HOST: Richo, I have to let you go early.

MATTHEW RICHARDSON, PRESENTER: Why is that?

FELGATE: We've got the Prime Minister on the line, so we'll talk to you next week.

RICHARDSON: Albo! See you next week.

FELGATE: Prime Minister, good afternoon. Thanks for coming on the program.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good afternoon. Sorry about that, Richo.

RICHARDSON: No, it's all good.

The Albanese Government is future-proofing the transport links for a growing Western Sydney, locking in a future rail connection between Leppington and the new Bradfield City Centre with a $1 billion investment.

The Leppington to Bradfield connection is a missing link on Sydney’s rail network, joining the new Western Sydney International Airport to Sydney’s south west.

Previously in the works, it was shelved under the Coalition Government in 2014, when it cut funding from public transport projects across the nation.