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.

Australia Day is an opportunity to celebrate everything we've built together and be optimistic for the future we can shape together.

Whether you are someone whose ancestors have loved and cared for this land for 60,000 years, or whether you are making the pledge of commitment as a new citizen today, all of us belong to the greatest country on Earth, and all of us can take pride in a national story written by the courage of our people.

From those who serve in uniform and keep us safe to farmers battling unforgiving country.

Thank you, Laura, and can I join in paying my respects to the memory of Ken Randall and offer my condolences to his family and friends.

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.

I acknowledge all my colleagues joining me here today.

Everywhere we’ve been this summer, the work of building Australia’s future is underway.

A $7.2 billion investment to boost productivity and make the Bruce Highway safer.

The Albanese Labor Government and Allan Labor Government have come to an historic agreement that will put all public schools in Victoria on a path to full and fair funding.

As part of the agreement, the Commonwealth will provide an additional 5 per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard (SRS) to Victorian public schools.

This will lift the Commonwealth’s contribution from 20 per cent to 25 per cent of the SRS by 2034.

This will see around an estimated $2.5 billion in additional Commonwealth funding to Victorian public schools over the next 10 years.