ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning.
JOURNALIST: Do you have any lessons from inside the church, PM?
PRIME MINISTER: It was a beautiful service. It's always a good way to begin the year. And I think the highlight was the junior choir, it was absolutely delightful. And they're wonderful young people. And whenever I'm with young people, whether it's from an early learning situation of child care, or in a primary school in particular, what you see is hope for Australia. The diversity that we have in this country, the fact that prejudice is something that quite clearly is learned. Kids just see other kids. They don't see religion, they don't see difference, they don't see race. What they see is other children. And they just get on and I think that is always a lesson I take from engaging with young people.
JOURNALIST: Prime Minister, interest rates are expected to go up today, how are you planning to help Australia?
PRIME MINISTER: We'll continue to focus very much on cost of living. That's been our focus for our entire term. We, of course, inherited an inflation rate with a six in front of it and rising - interest rates began to rise before we came into office. We've been very focused on helping people and making a difference. What has been extraordinary over recent weeks, as we've seen, is that the Coalition are fighting each other with the same energy they used to reserve for fighting our cost of living measures, fighting against our tax cuts, fighting against our energy rebates, fighting against our health measures and our cost of living measures. What we'll continue to do is to focus on the needs of Australians. We'll allow the former Coalition members to continue to focus on each other.



