MARY DOYLE, MEMBER FOR ASTON: Hi everyone. My name is Mary Doyle and I am the Member for Aston, although this is technically Deakin. So, I'd like to kick off by welcoming the Prime Minister back to the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne that I've called home for 38 years now. And a big thank you also to Swinburne TAFE for hosting us here today. So, across the course of the 2025 election campaign, we heard loud and clear how Free TAFE is changing lives of people right across the country.

JOURNALIST: Just from my Canberra colleagues today - regarding the women that are trying to travel from Syria to Australia, has a security threat been made about them? And if so, what is it?

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Well, we monitor all of these issues, but we are not repatriating these people.

JOURNALIST: How will you seek to stop them from coming to Australia then?

PRIME MINISTER: Well, we're not repatriating them. We -

RAF EPSTEIN, HOST: The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in Melbourne. Good morning. Thank you for coming in.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning. Wonderful to be here, Raf.

EPSTEIN: I do just want to start with this little altercation outside court. I just wonder, pretend for a moment you're not well known as a Prime Minister. If you walk down the street, saw a neo-Nazi leader who you knew off TV, would you say something?

JAMES GLENDAY, HOST: It's been a big few weeks in Canberra and we've been hearing from you this morning about what sort of things could really help you deal with the rising cost of living. So, who better to ask than the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, who joins us now in the studio. PM, good morning.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good to be here in Melbourne.

BRIDGET BRENNAN, HOST: Yeah, great to see you, PM. We're celebrating Lunar New Year, of course. Year of the Fire Horse.

HOST: Oh, you pressed the right button because in honour of the Prime Minister coming in, you've played that song. Prime Minister, welcome to the show.

HOST: Welcome.

HOST: Thank you for joining us. Have you got your Joy Division t-shirt on?

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Great to be in Melbourne. I don't this morning. I'm in a suit, as you do, unfortunately, but I'm much more comfortable in a band t-shirt, I've got to say.

The $20 million renovation of Henson Park is now complete, securing the future of one of Sydney’s most iconic sporting venues for generations to come.

Last year, the first stage of works for the project delivered a much-needed upgrade to the King George V Grandstand and four new female friendly change rooms. The facilities were in dire need of an upgrade as they were constructed for the 1938 Empire Games.

These works were jointly funded by the Inner West Council, the NSW Government, the Australian Football League (AFL) and the Australian Government.

MARK BUTLER, MEMBER FOR HINDMARSH: About 40 years ago, the Hawke Government and the Bannon Government, two visionary Labor governments, came together and decided to build a defence precinct here on the Lefevre Peninsula. And it has served obviously the country, almost the world, by securing our naval capabilities. But for the state of South Australia and the community I have the privilege of representing, it has been a huge driver of economic prosperity and of secure, well-paid jobs as well.

The Albanese and Malinauskas Labor Governments are ensuring that South Australia remains the home of Australia’s submarine construction, with expenditure projected to be billions of dollars in the state over coming decades.

Today the Albanese Government is announcing it will invest $3.9 billion as a down payment to deliver the new Submarine Construction Yard in Osborne.

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.

Thank you, Janelle, for your kind introduction.

And thank you for being such an outstanding example of how when Labor wins in the regions, the regions win with Labor.

Thank you all for that very warm Country Labor welcome, here in the beautiful Central West.

I acknowledge all my state and federal Labor colleagues.

JACQUELINE MALEY, HOST: Hello and welcome to Inside Politics. I'm Jacqueline Maley. We're bringing you a very special extra episode of the podcast today, because the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had an opening in his diary and he's granted us an audience. So, we're very happy to welcome the Prime Minister to the pod. He's joining us from the Canberra Studio just after question time on Thursday along with our chief political correspondent, Paul Sakkal. Hello, PM.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good afternoon. Good to be with you.