This week in Canberra we are bringing together leaders from the business community, the union movement and civil society to work on making the Australian economy stronger, fairer, more productive and more resilient into the future.
These discussions will be informed by nearly 900 submissions from experts, industry leaders and individuals and over 40 forums that Ministers have held right around the country.
PATRICK GORMAN, ASSISTANT MINISTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER: Good morning, I’m Patrick Gorman, the Federal Member for Perth, and the Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister, and it is delightful to be here at the Resources Technology Showcase here at the Perth Convention Centre with the Prime Minister of Australia, the Resources Minister. And over the course of today, some 20,000 people are going to come through seeing the incredible opportunities and jobs, not just of now, but of the future.
The Albanese Labor Government recognises 50 years since the Gurindji land handback, a turning point in the struggle for Aboriginal land rights.
On 16 August 1975, Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam poured soil into Vincent Lingiari’s hands, during an official handover ceremony which formally granted the Gurindji people a lease to a parcel of land at Wave Hill cattle station.
It would become an iconic image of land rights and a defining moment in Australian history.
Eighty years ago, Prime Minister Ben Chifley began his address to the nation with a sentence of perfect simplicity – and infinite power:
Fellow citizens, the war is over.
The signing of the surrender was some weeks off, but the darkness that had engulfed the world – and made its last stand in the Pacific – was at last lifted.
Here in Sydney – as they did in towns and cities across Australia – crowds poured into the streets. They sang and danced amid a joyous blizzard of paper.
RAFAEL EPSTEIN, HOST: Anthony Albanese is the Prime Minister of Australia. Good morning, thanks for joining us.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning, Raf. Good to be with you.
EPSTEIN: The ABC reported on Tuesday about a male child care worker in Melbourne, as we heard in the headlines, accused of grooming, banned from working in childcare. Reported on Tuesday, the system we've got on Friday, he still has a working with children check. Like, can you believe that?
HOST: Triple M good times, greatest hits. Marto, Margaux and Dan with you, please be up standing for the national anthem. The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, joins us in the studio. Good morning, Albo.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good to be with you. I, unlike Marto, have turned up in person.
HOST: I know.
HOST: Look who's here. We saw him eating up a storm yesterday at the EKKA, and he's in the studio this morning. Albo, the Prime Minister. Good morning.
PRIME MINISTER: Great to be with you. The diet went out the window yesterday, I've got to say.
HOST: It's always a headlines, isn't it, where how you eat the strawberry sundae –
EMMA COMER, MEMBER FOR PETRIE: Well, welcome everyone. Welcome to a beautiful Queensland winter day, I'm joined here with the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister actually secured the funding as Infrastructure Minister for the Red Cliff Railway Line, which has been an absolute asset to our community, getting people to the city to work right away. And now we've also got fifty cent fares, so that's amazing. And I'll hand over to the Prime Minister.
STEVE AUSTIN, HOST: And look what came in with the cows. The Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Thank you very much. Great to be here, Steve, although I'm not sure about the introduction.
STEVE AUSTIN: Have you been here before?
THERESE TOWNSEND, RESIDENT: Welcome to our home. Brian and I have raised our children here. We've lived here for 33 years in Mansfield, and we've recently installed a solar battery because it's going to save us money. And we were triggered to do it because of the Government rebate, which made it affordable and sensible for us. So I'll introduce Kara Cook. Thank you so much.