ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA: Prime Minister Fakafanua, you are very welcome here in Australia. This is our first meeting, but, of course, Australia and Tonga have such a warm and long friendship. We're all part of the Pacific family and that is why I'm so pleased to welcome you here. Indeed there is, of course, the people-to-people connections are so strong, including in my local electorate in the inner western suburbs of Sydney, where there's a substantial diaspora as well. The relationship that we have in dealing with climate change, we will discuss at the pre-COP meeting that will be held in Fiji, and then, of course, again at the Pacific Island Forum meeting in Palau, just a couple of months later. Climate change, economic relations, the opportunities that come from the exchange of people, as well, including the contribution that we can make through the Pacific Labour Mobility Program, is important. But also our standing together in the Pacific on security, economic development, climate action - all of these issues are ones in which our relationship can be even stronger, I think, and I want to elevate that relationship to a higher level in the future. I look forward to working with you. You are still relatively new since your election, and I just want to conclude by congratulating you on your election.
LORD FATAFEHI FAKAFANUA, PRIME MINISTER OF TONGA: Thank you very much honourable Prime Minister, it's definitely a pleasure and an honour to meet you for the first time. As you're aware, my government was only elected recently in November, and we are very keen for the relationship that's under discussion, and we're very grateful for the way that you have received His Majesty the King in his recent state visit late last year, as well as the formal relationship between your Governor General and our Royal Family. This is backed up by interconnected relationships. I'm not sure if you're aware, but my late father was involved in the conception of Tonga’s Companies Act with your Deputy Prime Minister back in the 90s, so these personal relationships populate what we're formalising in terms of the two pathways that we're looking at inspiring some progress between Australia and Tonga. The Mobility Scheme has been largely successful and has contributed immensely towards Tonga's GDP, given that 39 to 40 per cent of our GDP is from Mobility Visas. And I understand the latest economic data shows that in terms of remittances into the country, Australian dollars have exceeded US dollars as well. So we hope that planning for the future we can deepen our relationship, look at more two-way pathways, strengthening our economic ties as well as security concerns that are common across the Pacific. Tonga subscribes to the Pacific leaders proposal for an ocean of peace. This is very important for us, and we will be joining a joint statement that's currently being discussed by the forum leaders.