ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Well, thanks for joining us. It's great to be here in Riverwood with the Premier Chris Minns, and New South Wales Housing Minister Rose Jackson, for the first of our New South Wales Social Housing Accelerator
KRISTY MCBAIN, MEMBER FOR EDEN-MONARO: Well, thank you all for being here today. It's great to have so many people here with us at the Bega Fire Control Centre. Obviously, we've experienced another substantial bushfire in the Bega Valley, which has not only impacted communities here, but it's impacted our entire region after what was a pretty devastating Black Summer bushfire. I want to thank the Prime Minister, the Premier, the Minister for Emergency Services, the local Mayor and our local State Member for being here and coming to speak firsthand to our community.
FIONA POOLE, HOST: The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, has been in Bega this afternoon. He's just toured the fire ground. And he joins us now. Prime Minister, good afternoon.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good afternoon, Fi. Good to be with you.
POOLE: What have you seen this arvo?
RICHARD GLOVER, HOST: Prime Minister, good afternoon.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good afternoon, Richard. Good to be with you.
GLOVER: What did you see?
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Thank you so much everyone. Thank you firstly, Pastor, for welcoming us into your church. Thank you to Rachel Perkins for the leadership that you have shown. And thank you to the faith leaders who are represented around here for the leadership that you're showing to your respective communities to respond positively to the gracious invitation that the Uluru Statement from the Heart represents. To, as it concludes, to walk together to a better future.
I keep a copy of the Uluru Statement from the Heart on the wall of my office in Parliament.
One page. Such economy of words, such generosity of spirit:
“When we have power over our destiny, our children will flourish.
They will walk in two worlds and their culture will be a gift to their country.”
The Uluru Statement from the Heart is a gift to our country, an invitation to all Australians.
And the referendum is the response to that invitation – to say Yes to recognition.
STEVE AUSTIN, HOST: Now for the weather currently in Brisbane, let's go to Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Well, in Brisbane right now, it's 27 degrees, a look around the region, Bayside it's 28, Logan, 26, Ipswich the same 26, Gold Coast it's a very warm 27 and on the Sunny Coast it's 23.
AUSTIN: Not bad, you want a job?
PRIME MINISTER: Hopefully, I'm pretty keen on keeping the current one for a while yet.
DAN TAYLOR, HOST: The Prime Minister of Australia has joined us right now. Anthony Albanese, thanks for joining us.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning, great to be here.
TAYLOR: What a surprise.
CHRISTIE HAYES, HOST: Good morning.
TAYLOR: It’s so good that you are down here.
JULIE COLLINS, MINISTER FOR HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS: It is great to be here at the Clarence TAFE campus and to have the Prime Minister with us. And I want to thank the Tas-TAFE staff and students for coming in and showing us some of the work that they're doing as they go into their nursing exams. We all know that nurses in our hospitals are critically needed. So, it was wonderful to hear today that some of the students will soon be taking up their practice in our hospitals in coming weeks.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: It's great to be back together in Tasmania. This is my seventh visit to Tasmania so far this year. And today we've been out and about, we've had meetings with the business community, I visited a TAFE, we've been looking at health care, agriculture, manufacturing, social services. Ministers have been meeting with their state counterparts, as well, talking about how we can work in the interests of Tasmanians, but also of course, in the interests of the nation.