ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA: Welcome back to Australia. You are, of course, very familiar, and all of your delegation, I welcome all of you here for what is a very historic day. After this meeting, we will exchange the documents to formally bring into force the Pukpuk Treaty. This is extraordinary. Our first alliance for Australia since 1951. It says something about the relationship between our two great nations. And I say to you, Prime Minister, as well, the personal relationship that we have is so strong, exemplified by us walking Kokoda together, although you were embarrassing me by doing it, by doing it in golf shoes, showing that you are far more suited to the Highlands than me. But it was a wonderful honour for me to celebrate the friendship between our two nations. I also pay my respect to the Australian forces, who, of course, lost their lives there, and also say thank you to the people of PNG. The sporting relationship that we have, of course, is being advanced further today as well. I know you will be going for Queensland tonight, and I accept that with big grace as well. But as long as, I have said to the Prime Minister, we accept Alex Johnston playing for the Chiefs, but no more Souths players, no more. It already is building up excitement here, so I'm sure it's building up excitement. But we are partners, of course, on defence and security, economic relationships, and people-to-people relationships, as well as sporting rivalry and friendship at the same time. And you are always so welcome here Prime Minister. This is a day that for both of us, I think, will, people will look back and say what were the big achievements, there is no doubt that this, certainly from my perspective, is one of the best things that I will ever do for our nation and your nation as well. Thank you.
JAMES MARAPE, PRIME MINISTER OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Thank you, brother and friend. Thank you for your warm hospitality and your families, your staff, your people have been so kind to us, led by Commissioner Ewen and people from Port Moresby, received our [inaudible] earlier and that we are safe, not that we've never been unsafe, we've been always safe in this country. Today, eighth of July 2026 we've got out in our two people, two nations history as monumental in a world of many fragilities and insecurities. The safety of our region, the safety of our two people, the safety of our two nations, very important. Whatever happens in Australia will affect PNG. Whatever happens in PNG will affect Australia. We are cut out from the same cloth, so to speak, our set Christian heritage, our set democratic values. We were birthed out of Australian Parliament since September 1975. We were asked to be taken care of by a young Australia, in 1906 and you yourself were, in stitched together into one nation in the different states that you were at the time. And so we have many commonalities and shared history than those few in between, including a contest of State of Origin and other rugby games that come in between. And as leaders I'm happy to share this moment with you, my team, on our sides, Governor Ipatas, Sir Ipatas, represents the 21 province and our sub regional governments. Minister Sir Ano Pala represents my Cabinet. And our two sides, we take this moment seriously. We choose treaty, for the records of Australians and Papua New Guineans, we asked for it. It wasn’t Australia that asked for it. We were at the margins of the bilateral security agreement, and we said, why don't we elevate to the highest, knowing our close proximity, people-to-people, and our country-to-country, and our shared interests. And I wanted to say thank you very much for accepting that proposal. You have more to give us than us to give you at this point in time, but as we structure this architecture, it keeps our two houses green fence into one fence, that one Bunnies conversation, so that we both understand issues around us and work together, especially our children who will live after we are long gone from this time into the future.