Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese held bilateral talks on 18 October 2023 in Canberra.

PETER MALINAUSKAS, PREMIER OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Good morning, everybody and thanks for joining us here at the Adelaide Central Markets on a really important moment. We are on the precipice of a big decision as a country and I couldn't be prouder to be standing next to the Prime Minister of our nation, Anthony Albanese, who has had the fortitude and the courage to put this question to the Australian people just as he committed he would do. It's also great to be here with the Foreign Minister, a proud South Australian, Senator Penny Wong.

HOST: Where are you today, Albo?

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Today, I've been in Adelaide, Hobart and I've just landed back in Sydney. Yesterday, I was in Sydney, Perth and Adelaide.

HOST: Yes.

PRIME MINISTER: And the day before I was at Uluru and Port Lincoln. So, it's been a very busy time.

HOST: I mean, Prime Minister, what do you like, are you a coffee man? What keeps you going?

DAVE MARCHESE, HOST: Anthony Albanese, welcome to the Shake Up.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: My absolute pleasure to be with you and I'm hoping it's a good weekend for everyone, but particularly a good weekend for the first Australians.

MARCHESE: Well, look, at this point in the campaign, we're a day out. All the polls appointing to No. How hopeful are you that Australia is actually going to say Yes?

Earlier this week, I had the privilege of meeting the Anangu women who painted the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Sitting with them in the red dirt in the centre of our continent, I thought about how remarkable their artwork is.

Not only does it match the power of the words it surrounds, its greatest beauty is that leaves room for all of us to do what Australians have done so many times before: seize the chance for a better future. And we can do that by voting Yes.

Yes means recognising Indigenous Australians as the original inhabitants of this continent.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Well, today is the day. The first referendum held this century. And an opportunity to make history. An opportunity to just do two things. Accept the gracious invitation from the First Australians to recognise them in our nation's founding document, our birth certificate. And secondly, to do it in the form in which we have been requested. A simple request by the First Australians just to be heard. To have a Voice. To be listened to about matters that affect them. A non-binding advisory committee.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: My fellow Australians, at the outset I want to say that while tonight's result is not one that I had hoped for, I absolutely respect the decision of the Australian people and the democratic process that has delivered it.

When we reflect on everything happening in the world today, we can all give thanks that here in Australia we make the big decisions peacefully and as equals, with one vote, one value.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good to be with you, Oly. It's great to be back in this beautiful city.

OLIVER PETERSON, HOST: Well, I will come to your trip here in Perth in a moment. But firstly, of all the atrocities by the Hamas terrorists, how have you reacted today to the confirmation to that revelation that they have beheaded dozens of babies?

SARAH ABO, HOST: Prime Minister, good morning.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning, Sarah.

ABO: Thanks for joining us this morning. We do have a lot to get through. I mean, as you would have just heard then from an Australian living in Israel, not all Australians feel as though they're being looked after. What are you doing to ensure the safety of all Australians in Israel? We know that there is so much uncertainty out there at the moment, all they want to do is feel safe.

MATT SHIRVINGTON, HOST: The Prime Minister joins us right now. Good morning to you. Well, we spoke to one Australian mother desperate to get out of Israel. Nicole Brodie is her name. She's got a seat on the flight but she doesn't know what's going to happen after that. Does she need a visa? Can she get home from London? Have you promised the people that will get on these flights in Israel that you will get them home safely?